Franklin Scahill EYE112: The built Environment “As more people encounter climate change,” writes author Thomas Friedman in chapter five of his book, Hot, Flat and Crowded about the increasing threat of global climate change, “more of them are also coming to understand that it is not just some cuddly-sounding phenomenon called ‘global warming’.” In his work, Friedman goes on to address the severity and potential devastation which faces us in the form of Mother Nature herself. He asks, “did we make it hot, or did [God] make it hot?” Well, based on his compiled research, “we” did, with incessant burning of fossil fuels and an environmental policy that most closely resembles a teenager putting off their school work for as long as they can, the human species have raised temperatures and wreaked as much earthly havoc as possible without it being, well, ten years from now. An equally, if not more so, unsettling reality presents itself in the fact that not only is there still a huge portion of the population who refuses to even accept that the climate issue is even an issue at all, but most of the people in the world with the power money and influence to correct what is wrong, fall stringently in this afore mentioned, ‘huge portion.’ Modern man exists today in a tumultuous time and no matter how politicized the topic has become, Global Warming and climate change are very real, increasingly immanent and more than likely, catastrophic. The first point Freidman makes in the fifth chapter of his book is simple, the temperature of the earth is changing, fast, and we know it. For the past, roughly 10,000 years or so the planets average temperature has varied, in one direction or the other, on a somewhat regular basis in a somewhat “cyclical” fashion, as it is put in the book.
Discuss critically religious and secular ethical arguments about environmental issues (35) In his book, 'The End of Nature', Bill McKibben highlights the fact that we are destroying the natural environment at an increasing rate, for our own short-term gain. Since the day that man created agriculture, and industrialisation to follow, the imbalance between man and nature has been growing. This has been accompanied by a massive population increase, tripling in the twentieth century alone. Human pressure on nature has never been so great. Such pressure has resulted in 'environmental issues', ranging from global warming and eutrophication, to the depletion of natural resources and an increase in the number of landfill sites.
[Intro.] He stresses the urgency of this problem, a repeated number of times, and challenges the audience to raise awareness throughout the entire film. [Emotion] Gore uses a clip from the series Futurama, to add some humor to the documentary, to help describe to greenhouse effect. He posts a rhetorical question to his audience asking: "You wouldn't want to make a cute, fluffy, polar bear drown now would you? [Logic] Gore discusses the possibility of the collapse of a major ice sheets in Greenland and in West Antarctica, which could raise global sea levels by 20 feet and flood coastal areas.
Modernity may cease with global warming as half the biggest companies are oil companies, and oil is the essence of life. Deforestation and the effects of global warming on our forests and trees are far-reaching and quite evident. All our planets physical features are changing rapidly. And McKibben repeats himself on purpose to get his point across: the planet we knew is no more, we live on a new, more complex and harsher
Residents went to emergency shelters because of the radiation. Equipment failure, human error, and bad luck would conspire to create America’s worst nuclear accident. The impact of Three Mile Island was terrible, there was a massive cleanup. The cleanup started in August of 1979 and officially ended in December of 1993. The cleanup cost about 975 million dollars.
West Virginia Chemical Spill Effecting Our Environment Industrialization has greatly impacted our Earth. In the article Federal Grand Jury Investigates West Virginia Chemical Spill, the authors, Drew Griffin and David Fitzpatrick, emphasize the damage the chemical spill did to our planet. Many people were left with no water to use and the environment was greatly damaged by the spill. Chemical plants allow our society to develop some service such as water, electricity or disposal services. Conversely, Chemical plants can contaminate the pure water or create harmful diseases to humans and the Earth.
A Modern Modest Proposal In our world today, we have an ongoing problem with pollution. In the past decades, the pollution caused by our human race has continued to show an impact on our Earth. Every day our beloved planet is getting hurt more and more and this is making it harder for life to be sustained here. Soon, planet Earth could cease to exist and human life as well as all living species could become extinct. I propose that we eat all of the pollution waste, causing all of the waste to disappear from the Earth (logical appeal).
Since the time when the “Plague” caused so much death in Europe the human race has accumulated a vast volume of knowledge that would have been unthinkable as recent as a century ago. President John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address on January 20, 1961 said: “The world is a very different one now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life” (Kennedy par. 4). With the advances that have been made in science it is plausible that a disease could be genetically engineered and if introduced either accidently or intentionally into the populace could have a devastating effect on
However the oil company Texaco had just gotten their hands of the land. Thirty- five years later Perkins sees the destruction of U.S. economic development such as loss of land, culture, animals, and money (up to 16 billion dollars) due to EHM groups. He notices that all the countries that he had touched “suffered a similar fate” (Perkins xxii). EHM projects help keep the developing countries in third world status by taking money that can be used to better education and health care and sending it as interest to
The bomb needed to be tested after created so on July 16, 1945, New Mexico scientists witnessed the first atomic explosion in the history of the world. As the testing proceeded into the 1950s and 1960s, the scientists discovered the side effects of nuclear weapons and the fear it impacted on the American society. the bombs waste would be delivered by air and wind to the people of a 5-50 miles radius of the explosion. Nonetheless, this explosion would result in birth defects and harmful health conditions. propaganda began to publise this and increased the fears of americans.