Due to the rapid increase in population, the city has not had time to develop to the vast numbers of people who now inhabit it. Its roads experience heavy traffic consisting of cars, motorbikes and other motor vehicles; this leads to vast quantities of fossil fuels being burnt and subsequently pollution is at an all-time high. Furthermore, the 465km railway service in Mumbai is used by 2.64 billion people per year and is the busiest train system in the world. Clearly the transport in Mumbai is unsustainable but the problems could be solved through perhaps constructing an underground system of trains. This would reduce the huge crowds of people attempting to use the above ground train system per day and may
LEG 100 ASSIGNMENT 1: Social Media Joshua T. Yang Strayer University “We are in the midst of a communications revolution. The use of social media for communication purposes continues to increase, while "old school" messaging media like email is on the decline. Facebook is reportedly valued at 50 billion dollars. It has the potential to reach 700 million users worldwide. The advertising revenue associated with Facebook and other Social media is expected to generate approximately $8.3 billion dollars annually by 2015.
Humans are the main cause of rainforest destruction. We are cutting down rainforests for many reasons, including: * wood for both timber and making fires; * agriculture for both small and large farms; * land for poor farmers who don’t have anywhere else to live; * grazing land for cattle; * pulp for making paper; * road construction; and * Extraction of minerals and energy. According to Rainforest Action more than an acre-and-a-half is lost every second of every day that’s an area more than twice the size of Florida that goes up in smoke every year! If present rates of destruction continue, half our remaining rainforests will be gone by the year 2025, and by 2060 there will be no rainforests remaining. Every second we lose an area the size of two football fields!
This plan however will be expensive, and also cause the resettling of thousands of peasants. China has already invested in numerous Dam projects all over the rivers of China, for example The Three Gorges Dam. There has also been others, such as the Sanmen Xia Dam, but this project caused the river to become worse over time and causing horrible effects on people’s lives and agriculture. There hasn’t been much success with any of the water projects implemented. Almost all are dam related projects and each have failed and caused many floods and loss of lives.
According to the United Nations, more than 200 million Chinese workers risk serious damage to their health from occupational disease. Since they often carry out the most dangerous jobs, migrant workers are particularly susceptible to occupational diseases and work-related accidents. At the end of 2005, China officially recorded 665,043 cases of disease or illness caused by workplace condition.” It’s hard to believe our country buys products from people that are forced to have to work in such a bad environment. I say forced because people are basically forced to work because that’s how they have to survive and provide for their families.
DEFORESTATION is a major problem in The Gambia as people cut down the forests to use the wood for fuel to feed their large families. This results in a great loss of forests in the country. 2/3rds of the forest in The Gambia is now lost to deforestation. The population will continue to grow and be more and more UNSUSTAINABLE (meaning that the country will not be able to look after the huge numbers of people in the future). The high birth rate will continue to build up the population, but the death rate will continue to be high as there is no money to improve medical care – so the youthful population will continue to be a problem.
Wal-Mart Domination Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in America and has stores throughout the country and world. Many people have different thoughts and viewpoints of Wal-Mart and the debate over whether it is good or bad for America is still in question. Wal-Mart is the second largest job supplier in the United States behind the government. However it pays their employees minimum wage which is nearly impossible to live off of especially if you have kids. Wal-Mart like to portray itself as a seller of American products however the main problem is that it outsources all of its work and is full of shelves with items mad in foreign countries, mainly China.
On the contrary, the Chinese will be very angry, they maybe think, I still have so many things to do, pick up the kids after work, do some housework, cook food, and do something they like, why are you always working overtime? Personaly, the core reason for that difference is there are larger people in China than that in America. The whole society is very competitive, people are under high stress and are easy to be angry. Then, the money value is the most obvious point which is different. In the history of recently 100 years, China changed from a very poor, undeveloped country to a country which is developing very fast today.
Many of the roadways in the cities were too small for the quick and large population expansion. Due to the close proximity to the factories and the densely populated urban lifestyle pollution was a serious health concern. The lack of
Mexico City has a population of 19.5 million, with an expectation of it reaching 21.6 million in 2015. Challenges occurring in mega cities due to a surplus population include discrepancies in the distribution of income and employment, inadequate water, sanity, infrastructure and housing. In mega cities which are generally situated in a developing country, individuals usually commute to a city in hope of employment, education and a better future. These individuals arrive with no skills and no wealth, generally coming from rural areas. Therefore they have limited rights when it comes to employment and their desperate nature to support themselves or their families leads them to hazardous working conditions and wages much lower then the minimum wage.