“Ecology” is the study of living things in relationship to their environment. The word can also be used to describe the totality of such relationships, but it should not be substituted for “environment” in statements like “improperly discarded lead batteries harm the ecology.” It’s not the relationships that are being harmed, but nature itself: the batteries are harming the environment.

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