It’s a waste because clean water is not an abundant resource and it will eventually run out. The amount of water used per year for fracking needs to be monitored. Earlier this year in Northern Ohio, over 400,000 residents were left without safe water due to widespread contamination. Residents were even advised not to shower due to the
Just because the dams are 40% it is clearly illogical for residence to be able to use whatever level of water consumption they please. Dams will deplete inevitably. According to the Queensland Chief Water Commissioner Elizabeth Nosworthy, if residence of the East Coast used jus 10 minutes extra water than they need, 150 million liters of water from just 1 dam will be wasted per week. Forcing level 6 water restrictions to be implemented in just a few weeks. “What the
No civilization has ever lasted that long. Is it ethical to be creating a form of waste that will require careful storage for a timeframe longer than any civilization has lasted? Also managing the waste is expensive. There are expensive ways to dispose of long-lived radioactive waste. Sweden , for instance, has spent $14 Billion and rising to manage its radioactive waste and is now decommissioning its reactors.
This action demonstrates a lack of interest to aid the less fortunate in the community, as well as failing to increase their customer base. The less fortunate members of society also have to shop for groceries, and they most certainly have a choice where to make their purchases. While Company Q management is making the decision to throw the food away, this results in revenue loss to the company. Shareholders are not likely to invest in a company which prefers to lose revenue rather than contributing to society,
Patent systems prevent copyright on products e.g. the HIV drug is copyrighted and remains at a too high price for people in need to access it but costs little to make. At the end of 2000, there were 36.1 million people living with HIV/AIDs in the world. More than 95% of them lived in the developing world and it is estimated 800 people die from it each day. Most political decisions are made on a national or global scale and can prevent the access of some technology to particular places.
One of the biggest reasons to not use Yucca Mountain is because Nevada does not have one nuclear power plant. “A two-thirds majority of Nevadans feel it is unfair for their state to have to store nuclear waste when there are no nuclear power plants in Nevada”. So why would we make them take waste from states such as New York or New Jersey. Another reason that we should not use Yucca Mountain is because it is only 100 miles away from Las Vegas which has hundreds of thousands of tourist a year which if a leak occurs then they would be exposed to nuclear waste. This would not be good.
It showed millions of people the dangers of smoking tobacco. Many people stopped using tobacco because of Jeffrey. Some who might have begun to smoke in the future did not because of his bravery and integrity. Also, the State demanded reimbursement for all of the smoking sicknesses that was caused by the lack of information from the company, which cost Brown and Williamson billions of dollars. Today, Jeffrey Wigand is living in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
To put this into perspective, the Vietnam War, which was way more lethal and lasted sixteen years, only cost the nation, factoring in inflation, around $527 billion. Most people don’t realize how much $1.27 trillion actually is. If a person wanted to spend that much money, he/she would have to spend a million dollars a day, every day, for the next two thousand seven hundred and thirty seven years. To spend that much money on a single war is mind blowing, however, the fact remains that the money has been spent and there is nothing anyone can do about it. (Yglesias,
Even though there are between 3.25 and 16 billion barrels of oil in all of ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), it would take even more time, money and resources to extract it. The proposed area is only a fraction of ANWR, but would have a large impact and because the area is so small, many of the major oil companies have lost interest in drilling for oil in Alaska. Since the United States uses seven billion barrels of oil a year, or 19 million barrels a day, it would take only 24 days to use every drop of oil in the proposed area! And yes, I do understand that the United States needs to decrease its dependency on foreign oil, but drilling in Alaska is the wrong way to accomplish that. Instead of trying to figure out where to drill the next oil well, we should be finding alternative forms of energy.
When you think of oil rigs, do you think of animals slowly dying under a film of oil? Most people don't but with the different spills occurring in the past twenty years they should. Though there are many years of oil left under the ocean floor, it is not worth all the damage done in the process to obtain it. Drilling off shore jeopardizes our ocean's ecosystem's well being; thus, permanently damaging the fisherman's market and increasing the unemployment rate for the lower class. It would take tens of billions of dollars plus multiple years to drill an amount of oil that would make America no longer dependent on foreign oil.