Maria Ruiz English 101 Prof. Courtney Stanton Oct. 8, 2014 Sustainability and our Environment Our natural world is losing its essence of ‘natural’ to become a polluted and corrupted place. In Curtis White’s work, “A Good Without Light” and Jim Tarter’s work, “Some Live More Downstream than Others”; Tarter doesn’t mention a solution to our environmental crisis, but he presents his idea that science can be of great use to find the factors that create pollution, cancer and so on. White’s solution to this barbaric heart is that we have the power to stop it, but instead we are making the choice to hurt others. Overall these works show us the effects of how we suffer the consequences when the Barbaric Heart is violating our environment. White’s view on the barbaric heart promotes our own self-benefit, which links to Tarter’s view of living downstream.
Carson provides rational examples to show the harm that pollution is causing to the earth and pests. Carson states, “Can any one believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on this earth without making it unfit for all life?” (605). Rachel Carson is trying to prove that spraying chemicals is not relevant because it causes harm to nature and anything else that comes in contact with the chemicals itself. Carson uses this scientific observation to prove that the cycle is continuous; all it is doing is causing more harm. As is it perceived, Carson feels passionately toward the environment and wants her audience to feel the same way.
While fracking does have the power to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, that process leaves the Earth, air, and water contaminated and inhabitable Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) involves a method of injecting water, sand and chemicals into a drilling site, those chemicals have shown to be hazardous to human health and well- being. In fact, 60% of those chemicals are known carcinogens and another 40% or more are endocrine disrupters. (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2011, para. 4) Mishalia Greene, a spokeswoman for the Chevron Company, stated on February 5, 2012, “that the chemicals make up less than 1% of the frack fluids, and the other 99% is made up of a sand and water mixture.” Further research into this claim showed that the 1% equaled 7500 gallons of chemicals are flushed into every
Article Review Assignment Week 3 Environmental Injustice Of “Clean Coal” Submitted by Rossetti Christina Romo SOCS 325- Environmental Sociology July 2015 Session DeVry University Online (Tyree&Greenleaf,2009) Describe in the Article and points out the people who happen to affected by environmental injustice of “clean coal” are also the individuals who are vulnerable to the so called “green” advertising that the coal industry has used in their campaign to promote the idea of “clean coal”. Many are becoming aware of how our lifestyle and the way the resources we use are having an increasing negative impact on the environment. The coal companies describe the benefits of clean coal technology and say it is an alternative to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels. However, there isn’t sufficient research or scientific resources to support the development that clean coal is viable energy alternative. Based on the analysis, the results state that clean coal technology will not provide the solutions to the environmental concerns relevant the damage cause by the coal extraction and the production of energy.
English 112 9/25/2011 Why would depleting our world of all its natural resources be a good thing? In this review written by Tyler Hamilton, he looks into a new oil (Oil Sands) found on the U.S. and Canada border. It is apparent that he feels this is a positive find but I’m not so convinced. This could be bad because of cost, Demand increase, and the lack to look for better alternative solutions. This is not the oil they are pumping out of Texas or the Middle East; it is dirty oil that has to be extracted and cleaned.
“An Inconvenient Truth” focuses on an important topic that we need to start paying attention to now- global warming. Many facts are stated and shown through graphs and research. The video and book also say how people are affecting the world and causing the earth to change. We can stop global warming by recycling, using less energy, and not polluting by using less fossil fuels (The Science). The movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” was a very eye-opening movie.
From the perspective of an environmental pessimist, we are witnessing “the death of birth” while, from the perspective of an environmental optimist, we are well on our way to sustainable development. These two opposing views of looking at the environment are quite prominent in our society. The concept of sustainable development has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. While in the past, environmentalists have been pointing to the great damage that has been, and is still being, done to the environment. There have been those who have tried to push back with the idea that humans have not been destroying the environment, and the changes that have been taking place in the environment, notably, climate change, are the result of natural causes.
Nuclear waste is harmful to the environment and its inhabitants. Even though the nuclear power industry might oppose nuclear waste signage due to negative public opinion regarding management of nuclear waste, the parameters for storing nuclear waste are crucial for future generations. First, the parameters for storing nuclear waste are crucial for future generations because it is imperative to educate people on the importance of nuclear waste signage. The question is what type of signs would say, “stay away” to humans living 10,000 years from now? Exposure to high levels of radioactive waste can cause birth defects, cancer, and death.
Hardin says that the population growth is a major problem of utilitarianism that has not been answered by anybody. Pollution rates would go up, and we would be “locked in a system of fouling our own nest” according to Hardin. If everything was shared by everybody Hardin says that it is inevitable that everything would be trashed because that is what people do best. It is not just because people like to litter but more because things would be overused he says. He says the population will always grow but our resources are limited.
First of all to understand the importance of the Kyoto protocol there is a need to figure out what it’s all about and why greenhouse gases are considered so dangerous. After being produced by factories, machines, cars etc. these gases go up to the atmosphere, acting there as glass in a usual greenhouse – they let all the heat in but don’t let the heat out of the atmosphere. And the more greenhouse gases are produced, the more threatened our environment is. It causes global climate changes including the melting of glaciers, floods in one part of our planet and droughts in the other, heavy snowfalls, tsunami and other nature anomalia.