Period-7 Pros: If the Yucca Mountain is used as a nuclear waste depository then it will help store the large amount of nuclear waste that has been piling up in the nuclear power plants for many years. This build-up of nuclear waste poses a hazard to the areas that surround the power plants (such as New York City). The Yucca Mountain Depository resides is in a sparsely populated area and lies over 100 miles from the nearest city. Also the government already owns the land so it would be a waste if they did not use it for anything. The government has spent 10 billion dollars on the Yucca Mountain project already so it would be a waste to not use it, don’t we want our tax dollars to be well spent?
In a more extended look at it over the next 20 years, the oil refuge would only be able to meet 7.5 percent of the United States consumption of oil and as well as reduce the dependence of foreign oil by 15 percent. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has said that it would only be 0.4 to 1.2 percent of the world’s oil production. With the oil in the refuge only making a small impact it makes it hard to justify why drilling would be worth the harm for such a small gain of oil that may only last up to a couple of months or years. There could be more oil saved than there would be produced by drilling for oil in the arctic refuge. Environmentalists purpose that there may be a better way for money to be spent by putting it into more of
According to a spokesman there is some eight billion cubic feet of natural gas is drawn from existing fields in the ANWR every single day that is re-injected into the ground because there is no pipeline to carry the gas to the United States or Canada (Nationalgeographic.com). Eight billion cubic feet of natural gas is more then half of what American consumers use in a single day. Natural gas and fossil fuels are a nonrenewable resource, but we are far from running out. However, with the research that is being conducted on natural gas fueling
This is wrong because when the “guns ” become 9 and the “butter” become 40, the production point is out of the production possibilities for Pacifica. They could not produce that many. ECOMONICS 100 QIN ZHANG 576573836 SHARP GEORGE Due 26, Jan, 2015 PART 3 TOPIC 7 The situation of Human organs in short supply would be change if there was a legal market for it. Nowadays American government regular the Human organs celling
Cons on the subject include the wildlife and environment being hurt or disturbed, the oil not being ready to be used for many years and not knowing the exact amount of oil present, and that it would be very expensive to do and the amount of oil believed to be found in ANWR is relatively small compared to the needs of America. Pro #1 A very important factor that is often overlooked regarding the drilling in ANWR is that not all of the ANWR region would be used for exploration. In fact, only 1.5 million acres of land would be
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,
AMERICA AND AMERICANS FIRST Why does our country insist on sending billions of our dollars overseas when we cannot even take care of our own? A conservative estimate of over $114 billion annually goes to Israel alone and I would venture to say we easily send an additional $200 to $300 billion elsewhere. My question is why? American are living in times that skirt the great depression; unemployment is at a staggering 9.0%, people are losing their homes daily with many having nowhere to live. Our welfare system is almost bankrupt as is social security; by the time I am eligible to collect SSI in 14 years there probably will not be anything to collect.
Many myths include ideas like: "In the event of a nuclear war, the earth will be uninhabitable for thousands of years" or "there will be no use trying to survive a nuclear war because when you come out of your shelter, the earth will be totally devastated." These statements are untrue. They say that the earth would be uninhabitable because of the radiation. Realistically, the radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon decays pretty fast. It is true that there are some radioactive particles that may pose a threat to the environment in further future, but they would not pose as much of a problem as one may think.
Even more shocking, daily use has hit a 30-year high amongst high school seniors (Marijuana Use). However, alcohol use has reached historic lows in recent years (Marijuana Use). This could be because "the proportion of 8th and 10th graders who say they could get alcohol "fairly easily" or "very easily" had been declining since 1996 and continued to drop in all three grades in 2011"(Marijuana Use). Even though alcohol is legal, it is harder to obtain because it is a substance which is controlled and regulated by the federal government. Marijuana is not regulated for recreational use, and therefore cannot be
Australia receives so few applications for asylum that a 30 per cent increase means only 1400 additional people sought asylum here last year, as compared to 2008. To put this number into perspective, in 2009 the USA, France