Environmental Pollution Simulation Review

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RUNNING HEAD: Environmental Pollution Simulation Review and Summary Environmental Pollution Simulation Review and Summary Onur Atacan SCI-256 People, Science and the Environment Phoenix University Environmental Pollution Simulation Review and Summary Introduction The Environmental Pollution Simulation intends to involve us in managing environmental concerns and resources through making decisions on how to reconcile various demands about the use of natural resources in an urban environment. Based on the urban setting of the imaginary city of Keywich, the simulation contains three parts: “All That Smoke”, “A Heap of Trash”, and “The Energy Quandary”. Each section presents us with different sets of problems, demands, and decisions about environmental management. In this paper, I am going to summarize my simulation experience and explain how I arrived at respective decisions during the simulation. I. All That Smoke I acted as the Chairperson of Keywich City Council’s policy-making panel in the simulation. As part of that role, my first duty was to choose optimal measures to reduce air pollution in the city. Keywich, a city in Casadonia in Eastern Europe, has seen huge population growth in the last six years. The city’s population was 265 thousand in 1991. By 2001, this figure rose to 650 thousand and the estimate for 2008 is 1 million 600 thousand. Manufacturing and other businesses have led to this population explosion as greater job opportunities attracted growing numbers of people. Increased population led to increased use of cars, growing demand for energy, and the resulting air pollution (UOP Course Material, 2012). Air pollution basically refers to the release of air pollutants into the atmosphere. Air pollutants are gases or particulate materials added to the atmosphere that can affect climate or harm people or other organisms (Withgott &
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