To put this in perspective leasing the land alone will generate almost 2 billion dollars not including the permits that would have to be bought. The natives of Alaska support the development of this land a lot more than the green organizations lead us to believe. The development of ANWR would add 2 million more barrels a day to Alaska’s production. Green energy production is doing a lot more damage to the wildlife than putting in a oil rig would do. The wind turbines kill thousands of protected eagles and bats each year.
Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was the worst man-made ecological catastrophe during a ten year period of a rainless (during1931-1941) drought and large dust storms caused by plowing, farmers used to grow mostly wheat. The Dust Bowl was result of the worst drought in U.S. history. One hundred million acres of the Southern Plains were turning into a wasteland of the Dust Bowl. Large sections of five states were affected Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. The Dust Bowl was mainly caused by over plowing and a perfect example of “people pushing too hard against nature, and nature pushing back”(Ib’d Dust Bowl,A Film by Ken Burns DVD).Also they needed to produce more wheat to feed American troops during the war and over 200 million acres were plowed up, which caused the land to fall apart(Ib’d Dust Bowl).Also the stock market crash in 1929 caused The Great Depression which caused wheat prices to go way down from $3.00 dollars a bushel of wheat to 10 cents a bushel,(Ib’d Surviving the Dust Bowl,2007).
Global Issues start in America Over the course of the past four years we have seen a rise in the cost of gas, food, healthcare, and a dramatic increase in our nation’s debt. In this paper I will touch on the economic condition of this country as well as the global impacts that have brought us to the sorry state that our country is now in. First I will start off by talking about the stimulus package of 2009 that was intended to save the auto industry from going under. This stimulus package cost the American people more than $80 Billion dollars, which translates to $30,000 per automotive worker, which primarily went to the General Motors and Chrysler to float them through this dire economic time. This was intended to save both GM and Chrysler from bankruptcy which is did effectively, while also saving hundreds of thousands of jobs.
In order for us, the consumers, to get all of our fancy products and up-to-date technologies, a process that we turn a blind eye to takes place. At the source of the process, there is natural resource exploitation. “We chop down the trees, blow up mountains to get the metals inside, use up all the water, and wipe out all the animals.” As consumers, we are running out of resources because we have too much stuff! In the past three decades alone, one third of the planet’s natural resource space has been consumed. We are undermining the planets very ability for people to live here.
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?
Then, this is the biggest failure of them all according to me. This was the failure of the British government to sack Haig for incompetence. Instead, he was allowed to remain as commander in chief of the British army until the end of the war, wasting hundreds of thousands of men's lives with his unimaginative frontal assaults on the heavily fortified German trench lines. The Battle of the Somme was by far the most deadliest and gruesome wars in World War 1. The statement, “the Battle of the Somme was a complete failure,” is false for me.
On 4 February 1915, in response to the German submarine blockade of Great Britain, the Royal Navy seized all food destined for Germany which led to extreme food shortages. Prior to this, Germany had imported 25% of what was consumed and was not self-sufficient in terms of food. In response to this, a War Food Office was set up in 1916 but its actions were often counter-productive for example when they ordered the killing of 9 million pigs due to that fact they consumed grain. This consequently led to less pork and fertiliser and ultimately had a negative impact. Following the Auxiliary Service Law in December 1919, which required all able-bodied Germans to work for the war effort, there was a sharp increase of social unrest as Germans felt their rights being curtailed.
60% of population left this area, in Texas the population dropped from 40000 to 1000 people. Oklahoma farmers – “Okies” were forced to abandon their farms. This misfortune and hardship was described by John Steinbeck in his novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, where he portrayed the misery of those people. Many “Okies” moved to California, which was at this time “The Promised Land”. They hoped for better life and work, but what they actually found, was more drudgery, misery, hardship and incredible poverty.
As a result of this, plants and animals are forced to adapt to significant changes that threaten their way of life. As explained by Suzuki in the article, every year at least twenty thousand species disappear forever and the rate of extinction is speeding up largely due to human activity. Many living things are now paying the price for all the man made pollution that has been created as a result of global warming. Furthermore we as a community do nothing to stop global warming and feel no sense of responsibility or duty to care for the overall well being of our world. Big businesses are releasing harmful chemicals into the atmosphere and oceans.
As of today, Cambodia is a Constitutional Monarchy. The reigning monarch is King Norodom Sihamoni (www.mekong.net 1) During the Cambodian Genocide, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians died from execution, forced labor, disease and starvation. "The Khmer revolution was perhaps the most pernicious in history; reversing class order, destroying all markets, banning private property and money. It is one worth studying for the ages, not for what it accomplished, but for what it destroyed." (Sophal Ear, UC