“You want to save the environment by building renewable energy, but in Vermont the only viable places for turbines are high-elevation ridges,” says Lukas Snelling, director of communications for energize Vermont, (Hosansky, pg.#24). Not only will it be expensive to build these turbines, but it may be detrimental to the environment as
By not mentioning other companies that use the same tactics, he puts a negative image on Nike alone instead of all American companies who choose to outsource manufacturing to foreign countries. I think it’s kind of ironic that Mr. Ballinger is doing research on ethical practices of American companies when he himself is using an unethical approach to his research. Another fact that he fails to mention is that what Nike is doing is not illegal. Unethical, yes, but due to weak policies in some of these foreign companies, it allows for American, or any other nation’s companies, to exploit these practices. Also, why doesn’t he mention anything about the retailers who sell Nike shoes?
This condition made the soil to be more prone to the heavy winds, which blew the loose topsoil in what was described as the black blizzards. The effect was the blockage of the sun and the piling of dirt in drifts. The condition forced a mass migration of farmers and ranchers who left the region for California and other parts of the world (West, 2011). Causes of the Dust Bowl The problem leading to the events of the dust bowl began during the world war one. The war had led to increase in the price of wheat.
The rough Winter most likely was the cause to 70 deaths. Based on the “Background Essay”, “Then, in the awful winter of 1609-1610, another two-thirds of the settlers died.” Harsh winters were bound to happen. There was nothing anybody could do about it or prevent it. The colonists could have prepared for it, but because they did not have the current technology, they could have not possibly predicted that a rough winter was coming their way. According to “Document D”, in 1607 August through October “Summer sickness kills half the colonists” The summer of 1607 was so severe that it killed 50 people.
Bush Honeysuckles Bush Honeysuckles are inavasive species plants that grow quickly and agressivly diplacing other Plants. Bush Honeysuckles are harmful to plants, mammals, and wildlife. Of the roughly 2,300 inavasive plant species in Indiana, 25% are non native and are responsible for degrading and destroying thousands of acres of our natural plant communities of Indiana. Bush Honeysuckles where introduced to Northern America in late 1800s and 1900s. They are now reported to be found in 81 counties in Indiana.
The wind turbines kill thousands of protected eagles and bats each year. In California 10,000 eagles, hawks, and other birds are killed each and every year. This is one of those facts that the green team likes to hide. Instead they want to build 133 of the giant (390 feet) wind turbines in an area 16 times the size of the proposed area of ANWR. The wind turbine area in Wisconsin is a lushes marsh, home to millions of geese, ducks, and dozens of other migratory birds not to mention just down the road from a abandoned mine housing about 140,000 bats.
2105, 165 L.Ed.2d 110 (2006)). Because electricity does not strictly fit the definition of goods under the UCC, the court determined that electricity providers should not be afforded an administrative expense under section 503(b)(9). The Erving court begins its discussion of whether electricity is a good with quotes by Richard P. Feynman3 and Robert A. Millikan4, two brilliant physicist, that demonstrate the challenge posed to a court in trying to determine exactly what
By 1351, 60 major and 150 smaller Jewish communities had been destroyed, and more than 350 separate massacres had occurred. This persecution was often not merely out of religious hatred, but also as a way of attacking the kings or Church who protected the Jews and as a way of lashing out at the institutions that had failed them. An important legacy of the Black Death was to cause the eastward movement of what was left of north European Jewry to Poland and Russia. From 1944-1993, 362 cases of human plague were reported in the United States. 90 percent of these occurred in four western states- Arizona, California, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Colorado Springs Police Chief Peter Carey said on Friday that two bodies were found in the debris of a burn-out home, marking the first two known deaths from the blaze. Those victims bring to six the number of people who have perished so far this year in a Colorado Wildfire season described by the governor as the worst ever in the state. This story was very interesting to me because not only did it talk about the recent wildfire, but about previously wildfires that had occurred in Colorado, and what the government has done to help out. It is very important during a wildfire to make distinctions when undertaking a critical evaluation. This is why President Obama took the extra steps by going to visit the devastating areas that was affected by the wildfire and then figured out what was the best options for Colorado Springs.
The third chapter of the book focuses on coal mining and its dehumanizing effects that take place in Welch, West Virginia. "Disease in the coalfields is rampant... More than half a million acres, or eight hundred square miles, of the Appalachians have been destroyed... Along with an estimated one thousand miles of streams." Rudy Kelly is the main focus of this section; he was diagnosed with black lung cancer and he underwent multiple operations, although the doctors told him he was supposed to have died more than twenty years ago. He says, “I’m breathin’ because the profit margin is higher than the price of a man’s life.