If more people fight to force the government to make wiser energy decisions we can turn around global warming. Many communities are surrounded by nuclear energy plants or other harmful energy plants. This is a dilemma that local communities face when trying to fight global warming. Each individual can only do so much to fight these huge corporations and energy plants. The best thing we can do as a society is establish better laws for what is considered acceptable when creating energy.
Along with a possibility of creating a large job market here in the U.S. with upwards of 600,000 people needing to operate this endeavor, we could take back our economy. The con for this is that it is still too new for us to determine what it can do to the land around where the fracking is taking place. There have been reports of water contamination as well as earthquakes due to displacing tectonic plates. There needs to be a more conclusive study done in order to determine whether or not oil and gas companies should be allowed to engage in fracking. At this time, I could not conclusively say yes or no to allowing fracking in the U.S. 2.
Although we may be able to sustain a planet with some kind of civilization, the earth that we knew is gone. Oil and fossil fuels are attributed to manual labor and why we are prosperous and why our economies have grown. It is also why we have global warming and acid oceans. Rising temperatures and depleting oil reserves go hand in hand. Modernity may cease with global warming as half the biggest companies are oil companies, and oil is the essence of life.
One of his example for limited natural resources is fossil fuel. The fossil fuel is a symbol of the heart of our modern economies. According to Mckibben, the nature of our lives may change as the scarcity damage on the economy if we run out of planet. In fact, not only the fossil fuel, but also the planet, we’re running out of it. The economic growth has put too much stress on the nature.
Power plants are the main resource for the burning of coal and oil. When they are burned it releases a substance called sulfur dioxide and can affect the environment including our live stock, plants, animals, the air that we breathe and our water sources. Recycling becomes more important on large scales. Used consumer goods are collected, converted back into raw materials and are remade into new consumer products. Examples of materials commonly recycled are, office paper, steel from old buildings, plastic containers and aluminum cans.
LAB QUESTIONS Introduction 1. What is the question that this study aimed to answer? State the hypothesis that you tested. The question this study aimed to answer was rather or not humans moving into an area have a great effect on the environment of that area. My hypothesis was that the more humans that populated an area the more the natural resources of that area would be depleted effecting the environment and the in habitants.
Essay Questions 1. There are several differences between the industrial society and the postindustrial society. Within the industrial society, new types of technology were introduced in order to mass produce goods needed for the economy to grow. Steam transportation was used in order to send their goods to further locals than ever before. They utilized fossil fuel to increase the rate and scale of their production lines, even though over time this would eventually decrease the need for human labor.
Analyze a Sociological Issue This paper is about the fossil fuel dependency, and Americas. I will be covering the different types of alternatives, new technologies, results of possible fuel shortage, damages to the environment during the transportation of the petroleum, and what to expect in the future. During the thousands of years living in this planet, for the last 200 or 300 hundred years we been facing multiple changes in society, the economy, and the environment, especially in the developed countries, the development of the new industries presented new challenges for the society in general, challenges that will include the economic expansion of the cities based on the industrialization of the countries, and that exactly when we start
The Globe is losing its Cool Global Warming Melissa Moran University of Phoenix Axia collage Professors name SCI 275 October 21, 2009 There are many reasons for the change in the climate. Climate change also known as global warming is the change in the average temperature of the earth surface, and the change in wind and precipitation. Global warming is caused by releasing fossil fuels into the atmosphere. Many factors such as human activity and greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming. Global warming also has natural causes though they are often down-played in the media.
Alternative Energy Paper Tracey O’Baker SCI/362 November 3, 2014 Howard Schmidt Alternative Energy Paper Since energy prices are on the rise, the United States is constantly competing in the global market to find other energy resources. This has been a big challenge for the United States government today in finding and using alternative energy sources. Alternative energies is defined as energy sources that are renewable and free. Three Viewpoints The viewpoints on climate change vary from person to person in today’s society, but if we look back into the past, one would find some pretty important people who were pioneers of their time on this particular subject. George Perkins Marsh wrote on global environmental changes and humans as the agents of global change.