According to a 2008 report by the EPA, the US generated 250 million tons of trash, averaging 4.5 pounds per person per day. This is an increase from the 88 million tons, or 2.7 pounds per person that was recorded in 1960. However, over that same time period there was an even greater increase in the amount of that waste that was recycled. Moving from a meager 5.5% of waste recycled in 1960, the US has increased to over 33% of total waste recycled in 2008 (Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States: Facts and Figures, 2008). Discounting the amount of waste that is recycled still leaves a difference of more than double in the waste creation between the years, but the exponential growth in the recycling amount provides information into a changing attitude.
In fact, cases of all vaccine-preventable diseases are down more than 97% from peak levels before vaccines were available. Vaccines are now available to protect children and adults against 15 life-threatening or debilitating diseases. • healthier mothers and babies. At the turn of the century, 140 of every 1,000 babies born alive died within their first year of life. Today, that rate is 6.3 deaths per 1,000 live births • family planning.
Environmental Protection Agency estimated that 70 to 140 billion gallons of water are used to fracture 35,000 wells in the United States each year. This is approximately the annual water consumption of 40 to 80 cities each with a population of 50,000. Fracture treatments incoalbed methane wells use from 50,000 to 350,000 gallons of water per well, while deeper horizontal shale wells can use anywhere from 2 to 10 million gallons of water to fracture a single well. The extraction of so much water for fracking has raised concerns about the ecological impacts to aquatic resources, as well asdewatering of drinking water aquifers. It has been estimated that the transportation of a million gallons of water (fresh or waste water) requires 200 truck trips.
It cost a lot more then the government expected they thought it would cost 6.5 millions but it cost 8 million in the first year. If you got poor relief you could not receive a pension also if you had been in prison in the last ten years you could not get it. For the first time help had been given as a right not a charity and the government was addressing needs which in the past had been left to charities or the individual to sort out themselves. Another area the liberals helped was the
After recording this information and analyzing my data, I came to realize how large my ecological footprint actually is. With surprise, my data showed water usage as being one of my most negative impacts to the environment, resulting in roughly 2,600 gallons of water used each day. Compared to the U.S. average, this is nearly 400 gallons more than the average American (Grace’s). The use of showers, the flushing of toilets, the washing of dishes, and the use of laundry machines all played a major role in my water footprint. Translating my electricity consumption, gas usage, waste, and the buying habits to carbon, resulted in nearly 9 metric tonnes per year emitted into the atmosphere (How).
Ending prohibition on marijuana could save tax dollars and win ‘the war on drug”. (norml, 2013) 1. Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers $10 billion annually and results in the arrest of more than 829,000 individuals per year. (norml, 2013) 2. Nearly 25 million Americans have smoked marijuana in the past year, and more than 14 million do so regularly despite harsh laws against its use.
How much water they need and how much water there is will cause a dent in the water supply. If there is more water being used faster than it can replenish itself, the effect it has on the state is a negative result in reports from the amount of water being used. Therefore, the government understands that it is right to give as much water to them because Intel will help the state of New Mexico to provide jobs. As a result, Selcraig states “Intel now employs 4,000 people in Rio Rancho, plans to hire at least another 500 next year and says it creates as least two spin-off jobs in the surrounding economy for every one inside the sprawling plant (175)”. The essence of the government’s argument is that creating jobs for the city will help the economy.
Every month, 770,000 people in Canada use food banks, with forty percent of those people being children. Living in poverty impacts children in many ways, from lower levels of education, to health problems, developmental delays, behaviour disorders, and even effecting the way they live as adults. Over time, many different groups brought the child poverty epidemic to the attention of the federal government hoping for
Adoption Adoption is better than abortion, it gives many children who need a home a good home. Statistics show there are over 153 million orphans who have lost one or both parents in the United States. Of the over 400,000 children who are in foster care in the U.S., 114,556 cannot be returned to their birth families and are waiting to be adopted. On average, more than 60 percent of children in foster care spend 2-5 years in the system before being adopted. Almost 20 percent spend 5 or more years before being adopted and some never get adopted.
As the tiniest babies grow, so can their problems Stephanie Gangl “Not so long ago, very premature babies were certain to die.”(The New York Times May 2000) With today’s advanced technologies even the tiniest babies can be saved. The issue is they cannot determine the mental or physical capacity of a low birth weight babies. In addition they also have to determine whether to save the “tiny babies” or to let nature take its course. One of the claims made in this essay comes from a quote by Dr. Maureen Hack, a neonatologist, and she says “you are replacing death with impairment.” A recent study of 150 teenagers who were born weighing 2 pounds or less, only one-third had significant physical disorders. The most common disorders found in