We are undermining the planets very ability for people to live here. In the United States, less than four percent of our original forests are left and forty percent of the waterways have become unsanitary. When the resources start to deplete, we do the same thing to third world or lesser developed nations. The erosion of the local environments of these nations and
With the cost of diesel gas almost breaking five and a half dollars per gallon, many companies cannot afford to transport their product. The expectation of this effect can only be that the economy will almost literally die; if people don’t first. Everyday food is only one product that is mass transported around the world. With the addition to the rest of the products that are transported this world’s economy seems doomed. Besides gasoline there are many major uses of petroleum – everything from cosmetics to ballpoint pens, nylons, and even the waxes in chewing gum.
The United States alone throws away nearly half of the food they purchase. Not only is half of what we “needed” to produce tossed in the garbage, it’s becoming very evident the population has entered an obesity
Suzuki concludes that the war metaphor is appropriate because developed countries as a collective entity are the main cause of the devastating environmental crises around the world. For example, Industrialized nations are using a lot of the earth’s natural resources for personal gain and profits and because of this blatant exploitation of resources. Many citizens in third world countries are living sub standard lives and are unable to get sufficient resources to live. David Suzuki states that even though industrialized nations only account for about 20 percent of the population they are surprisingly consuming eighty per cent of the planets resource and also generate most of its industrial toxins and wastes. This fact proves that the industrialized
According to California Invasive Plant Council for Spring 2009 says that weeds alone cost California $82 million a year and that also suggest that invasive species has cost the United States $138 billion. That is a lot of money and a lot of product that was lost because of the contamination of the crops and grapes. The glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) feeds off the stems and happen to be at least 100,000 -150,000 insects per tree and they affect over 130 different plants. When feeding off the stems, the stem carry so much fluid that when the GWSS feed they consume large amounts to have energy and to grow. After filtering the essential nutrient from the stem it releases a small droplet that is later visible when it is
The working group in Lake Huron have invested over $500K in their project to help clean up the pollution (Lakes Huron). Research states, "salmon have all but disappeared from Lake Huron, and so have the anglers who spent tens of millions of dollars annually chasing them" (Sentinel). The Environmental Protection Agency have also devoted billions of dollars due to the pollution. In 2003, " Michigan's 10 busiest ports on Lake Huron saw about 1.2 million recreational fishing hours, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Last year, that number dropped to approximately 300,000- a decline of 75 percent"
With the current population in the United States being 307,898,367 (U.S. Census Bureau), this means Americans throw away 449,531,615,820 pounds of trash a year. If Americans are producing this much trash, where are they putting it all? They’re piling it up in landfills. According to the article, “Landfills: Hazardous to the Environment,” the United States has 3,091 landfills in use right now as well as over 10,000 landfills that are not in use (par. 1).
Greetings my friends, Family, and people of this nation, as you all know in these past years the prices on Fuel has gone up reaching record highs. Even prices on clothing, food, and paper has been going up and with these hard times around us, how are we to pay for these high prices on everyday items? . Forests are depleting slowly to make paper for use, in doing so we are losing food that come naturally and destroying our planet slowly. What if one plant could help fix out problem, one plant that can grow in any climate, on any part of the planet with little care, that gives back to the earth when it dies?
Hedges and Sacco report that over five hundred mountaintops have been blown up in West Virginia, while the underlying carbons seems are gouged away by huge machines that only require a few workers. The people of West Virginia have poor lifestyles while they suffer the consequences of the coal mining: cancer. The resources of this land are exploited, as well as the people, which will eventually lead to their extinction. Sacco and Hedges focus on coal mining’s economic, social and environmental effects. They give an example of the Easter Island and the abundance of freshwater and woods, “seafood was plentiful” (150).
The oil companies were affected greatly by Katrina. “The total shut-in oil production from the Gulf of Mexico in the six-month period following the hurricane was approximately 24 percent of the annual production and the shut-in gas production for the same period was about 18 percent. The forestry industry in Mississippi was also affected, as 1.3 million acres of forest lands were destroyed. The total loss to the forestry industry due to Katrina is calculated to rise to about $5 billion” (Discovery Channel). Local residents were greatly affected in Katrina.