...Running header: POLLUTION 1 POLLUTION: MORAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY VANESSA HARRISON HARVEY BUS330 PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING INSTRUCTOR: ANGELA MANLEY AUGUST 14, 2012 Running header: POLLUTION 1 “I do wonder whether there will come a time when we can no longer afford our wastefulness – chemical wastes in rivers, metal wastes everywhere, and atomic wastes buried deep in the earth or sunk in the sea.” – John Steinbeck Pollution is the action of environmental contamination with man-made waste. This includes land, water, and air. Of all the First World countries, the United States is the most polluting nation on Earth. The United States is ranked seventh on pollution control, by only spending 60% of its Gross National Product to help the environment. As a nation we have spent over 120 billions of dollars a year on research and development. The majority of the cost incurred has come from Environmental Quality, our country has consumed over 98 quadrillion Btu of energy in the year 2000 alone. Americans generate five pounds of solid waste every day, creating one ton of solid waste each year. In an average day in the United States, we throw out 200,000 tons of edible food and have thrown 1 million bushels of litter out of our automobiles. The main human contributor for pollution are landfills. It is possible that land pollution can contaminate the air and/or the water. Water pollution is the action of environment contamination...
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...Begin by indicating why pollution control laws have been enacted. Point out that pollution and pollution laws have existed for centuries, although the 1970's saw an unprecedented amount of environmental legislation, due partly to the increased affluence of our nation at that time and the increasing concern about the longterm effects of pollutants. Note that the interest in environmental problems has taken on global dimensions in the late 1980s and early 1990s; note also that environmental laws and regulations significantly affect not only how companies can do business but also the cost of doing it. At the same time they can provide business opportunities and, in some cases, advantages. 2. Environmental Protection Agency. Point out that EPA has the primary responsibility at the federal level for developing environmental regulations and enforcing the environmental laws. List the major environmental statutes and briefly describe them so that the student has a sense of the breadth of the laws covered in this chapter. Note that a number of the statutes are implemented at the state level with EPA exercising an oversight role. You should note that many states and local governments have enacted pollution control laws; you might want to present examples of state and local laws. 3. The National Environmental Policy Act. Emphasize that the rationale for NEPA, and the environmental impact statements required by NEPA, is to assure that the environmental consequences of particular...
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...Environmental Pollution Scenario Summary and Review Mary Thompson SCI/256 September 21, 2015 Marquette University Environmental Pollution Scenario Summary Muskegon County will fund pollution reduction programs, by utilizing the funding provided by America’s Clean Power Plan. We will have in place car pool requirements, carbon pollution standards for all power plants in the county, and provide the utility companies and industries access to information, guidelines and flexibility to meet our standards. The standards we have in place to reduce carbon dioxide emission will be assessed to insure the performance rates are on target. Recommendations to retrofit all city and school buses with pollution control equipment will result in the city receiving funding to complete this project. Infrastructure deterioration issues will determine any cause for concern related to traffic congestion, building code violations and the reassessments of bridges and roadways. Conversion concerns related to loss of open space on the Lake Michigan shoreline, and the parcelization of our surrounding forests will be discussed. Environmental Pollution Review The city of Muskegon has experienced, as you all know an unexpected growth in population. This increase in population can result in a myriad of consequences. Be assured our city will use the authority given and take advantage of those energy sources and the technology provided by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), to address...
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...growth of an economy compared to the harm production does to the environment. This is done by subtracting the costs of environmental and ecological damage done in a specific period of time from the gross domestic product, or GDP, from that some time. As a result, the damage done to the environment as a whole is factored into the equation to give a clearer picture of the consequences of growing an economy. Unfortunately, green GDP can be difficult to measure because of the problems inherent in trying to quantify the costs of ecological and environmental damage. Environmental concerns have come to the forefront of nearly every aspect of life, as people become increasingly concerned with depleted natural resources and polluted environments. These concerns are often not taken into consideration when measuring the strength of an economy. The gross domestic product, which is a measurement of both the consumption and production within a country, isn't meant to encompass these environmental issues. As a result, green GDP has been at the forefront of efforts to marry economic and environmental concerns. 1. The Green GDP— GDP indexes adjusted by the ecological environmental assets. The green GDP = traditional GDP- environmental /ecological cost. The environmental /ecological cost includes four aspects: - the defensive expenditure in the environmental damage. - the loss in resources environment. -the expenditure expenses of the restoration of the resources environment...
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...development of China’s economy, that is, environmental pollutions. Starting with air pollution, along with water pollution and soil pollution, China is currently facing the most serious problems than ever before. Establishing of many industrial factories has made China a top share in manufacturing. However, neglecting of protecting the environment while developing manufacturing has already resulted in lots of problems, such as the PM2.5 problem in many major cities, as well as the extreme lack of clean drinking water. On the other hand, concerns over global environmental issues, such as global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, trans-boundary movement of acid rain, and hazardous waste, etc., are mounting worldwide. About 25 years ago, a law named Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, which set out basic principles and directions for formulating environmental policies, was enacted on December 26, 1989. This Law was formulated for the purpose of protecting and improving people's environment and the ecological environment, preventing and controlling pollution and other public hazards, safeguarding human health and facilitating the development of socialist modernization. The law has stated that The state shall encourage the development of education in the science of environmental protection, strengthen the study and development of the science and technology of environmental protection, raise the scientific and technological...
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...gained recognition through a publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson’s. Silent Spring is an environmental science book that documented the detrimental effects on the environment with the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson’s book opened the eyes of many because it showed the harmful toxins that were being released. This brought concerns to the American public about their safety and brought many to be concerned with their environment....
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...Environmental Pollution Luthan Taylor SCI/256 April 22, 2014 Dr. Stephen Uche Environmental Pollution As the common reality of communities deals with the rising issues regarding worldwide environmental matters, upcoming states are having difficult, severe and rapidly-expanding polluting crisis of their own. Ecological contamination is more than just a health concern; it is a huge regional concern. Pollution has the probability to wipe out residents and neighborhoods. Toxic waste harms are also directly joined to the type of growth in rising nations. Various growing nations also have not urbanized environmental contamination control measures to make certain that guiding principles are successful (Crandall, 2008). The government was reluctant to follow environmental policies. Deterioration of environmental issues and concerns pointed towards the surfacing of many sufferers twisted the wave of open views, so that governments at the countrywide/ or national level were required to act. Ultimately, following a great deal of experiments and mistakes, helpful planning for dealing with environmental pollution were put in place and as a end result the value of the environment start to get better. Ecological effluence is released of substance or energy into, ground, or atmosphere that result harm to the earth's environmental poise or that lessens the value of life. Toxin can cause damage, with straight contact on the environment, otherwise harm in fragile poise of the organic food...
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...present, we have sixties over employees with three branches operating in Prai, Ipoh, and Johor Bahru. We also have two manufacturing plants in Selangor and one in Perak. At the moment, NSK Bearings is in the midst of achieving the Certification of ISO 14001. Our company decided to get the accreditation due to the recommendations from our customers, especially Toyota. In NSK Bearings, our premise is divided into three main areas: office, distribution warehouse and production. For this assignment purpose, I will focus on the Environmental Management System activities at the production area. Our production line consist of one assembly line for two products. We assembled the steering column system for Toyota and Perodua. [pic] Example of common steering system of a car. Task 1 How to plan and establish an Environment Management system at your own organization The top management of your company have decided to pursue with the certification of MS ISO14001:2004, Environment management system and have appointed you as the Management Representative/Project Champion for the company. Using the resources within your company, you have to make sure the project to be completed within 12 month. a) Identify Environmental Aspect (from your company activity or...
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...Environmental Ethics by Sheenarenz Marie Hismaña In Webster’s New Explorer Student Dictionary, ethics is defined as 1) a branch of philosophy dealing with moral duty and with questions of what is good and bad 2) the rules of moral behavior governing an individual or a group. Ethics is also defined by USDA in their Code of Conduct as rules or standard for governing the relations between people to benefit all concerned, with mutual respect for the needs and wants of all parties involved. According to Cochrane, Alasdair (2006), Environmental ethics mainly concerns human beings’ ethical relationship with the environment. It is theory and practice about appropriate concern for, values in, and duties regarding the natural world (Rolston III, 2003). Pollution is a big problem in every country nowadays. It is one of the by-product of what we so called economic progress. Along with economic prosperity, individualistic ethics have encouraged some ruthless behavior towards the environment for example, American cowboys who killed the native people, raped the land, and nearly extinguished the bison, this is the behavior of humans towards the environment (Kristin, 1991). Humans badly needed resources coming from the environment, they need to be healthy. Health, however, is not simply a matter of biology from the skin-in. Environmental health, from the skin-out, is equally as important. It is hard to have a healthy culture on a sick environment. Environmental ethics, by this account, is founded...
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...The Environmental Policy of the United States The environmental policy of the United States is federal governmental action to regulate activities that have an environmental impact in the United States. The goal of environmental policy is to protect the environment for future generations while interfering as little as possible with the efficiency of commerce or the liberty of the people and to limit inequity in who is burdened with environmental costs. This policy grew mainly out of the environmental movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s during which several environmental laws were passed, regulating air and water pollution and forming the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Partially due to the high costs associated with these regulations, there has been a backlash from business and politically conservative interests, limiting increases to environmental regulatory budgets and slowing efforts to protect the environment. Since the 1970s, despite frequent legislative gridlock, there have been significant achievements in environmental regulation, including increases in air and water quality and, to a lesser degree, control of hazardous waste. Due to increasing scientific consensus on global warming and political pressure from environmental groups, modifications to the United States energy policy and limits on greenhouse gas emission have been proposed, but such efforts have made limited progress. Power delegation and policy jurisdiction[edit] Executive branch[edit] ...
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...ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY INTRODUCTION: In play, the stage and scenery provide the context of what is going on: the kind of room the characters are in, the way it is decorated, and the amount and nature of its furnishings help us to interpret what is happening. They provide meaning for the actor’s and actresses’ actions and determine where they can walk, lean, or otherwise interact with props. For the play, the stage and scenery is the environment in which the story unfolds. The meaning of behaviour on the stage and what cab and cannot be done are determined by this environment. The theater would be far less entertaining or educational without the context provided by its environment. ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: In real life, our behaviour also occurs in the context of an environment, one that is constantly changing and rich in information. Unlike the setting on a stage, however, it provides more than meaning. Our environment also provides us with basic needs for life, including food, water, and air to breathe. It is also modified by our actions, and is irrevocably altered whenever one of us changes it. Our environment includes all of our natural and built surroundings, and is delicately balanced system that can easily be bruised or damaged. Whenever we change some part of it, other parts also change, and these other changes may be unintended or even dangerous. Concerns about what we were doing to our environment reached unprecedented prominence in the 1960s and have continued...
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...COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Vehari Department Of Management Sciences Report Title: Topics: Role of Media in improving corporate governance. Environmental concerns and corporate governance CSR of any organization Prepared for: Mr.Sohail Tahir Prepared by: Altaf-Hussain (FA11-MBA-004/VHR) M.Sajjad (FA11-MBA-011/VHR) The Media Role in Corporate Governance Improvement What is media? Communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated Types of Media Print Media Electronic Media Importance of media Media is the most powerful tool of communication. It helps promoting the right things on right time. It gives a real exposure to the mass audience about what is right or wrong. Even though media is linked with spreading fake news like a fire, but on the safe side, it helps a lot to inform us about the realities as well. "The world is moving towards progress in every walk of life. But when we look towards societies, it feels as if some thing is still missing. Money, power, lust, etc., is the wish of every human being to attain. But we can't deny this fact that we all are bounded with loads of social problems, which are hard nuts to crack. Social issues are matters which directly or indirectly affect many or all members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both. Social issues include poverty, violence, corruption, bribery, suppression...
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...Environmental Sustainability External Affairs Public Relations Division Presented by: Scott Fessler Tametrius Walker Lisa O’Connor University of Phoenix, College Mathematics I Professor Anjana Verma December 2, 2011 Information About our Division At our office we exchange information with the Environment Protection Agency and the public, Congress, and State local natural environment. Our office provides Media Relations, Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, Environmental Education and outreach, Environmental Information. Our mission is to teach, research and to provide community service through coordinated communications within a variation of agencies. The public relations staff goal is to connect with every agency and build long-term relationships. Information About our division In our office of Public Relations, we specialize in writing, researching, preparing materials, maintain contacts, and respond to inquiries to help the public and to stay on top of any matters that we can help to make the environment better for everyone. The Pollution Of Water, Lakes and Air Today the pollution of water is a major problem for our children and environment today in the United State. Today our big concern is that 59% is worried about how we are going to control these issues. 45% is worrying about the air pollution, 42% worrying about the loss of tropical rain forests, and lower levels worried about extinction of species and global warming. But water...
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...Environmental Issues and the Industrial Revolution Module 1 Assignment 5 Ecology and Environmental Sustainability Instructor: Janet Bargar Argosy University Aisha Freelove 3/13/16 Environmental Issues and the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was introduced in the late 18th century and progressed throughout the 19th century. During this era many advancements were developed. In addition to the many inventions, urbanization expanded, factories were built, and the environment suffered negative impacts due to air pollution, deforestation, and many other factors. Three of the most negatively impacted inventions to the environment, were the Canal, The Railroad and Locomotive, and the Automobile. There were some positive impacts to these three inventions, but the environment unfortunately was not one of them. Dewitt Clinton was one of the men behind the invention of the Erie Canal. Although history has stated that the idea was not originated by Clinton, he was a significant factor in the process. History states that an imprisoned flour merchant by the name of Jesse Hawley He envisioned building a canal across New York State. His initial goal was to provide an alternate route to help others navigate between the Great Lakes, the Hudson River, and the Atlantic Ocean. Hawley developed the idea after failed attempts to successfully transport his own products. Construction started in 1817 and was completed in 1825. The actual mileage span was...
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...Environmental Pollution SCI/256 November 12th 2012 Environmental Pollution Environmental pollution refers to any disapproving modification of our environment and alteration in the natural value of the environment, entirely or mostly as a spin-off of man’s activities. The action of man and the destruction caused to the environment may affect the whole living organism on the earth. Every humanoid civilization, disposes of certain kinds of materials and waste. Man has been endlessly abusing the land and its resources to gratify the unlimited want and demand for minerals of all kinds. Due to growth in the rate of human population the amount of trees on the planet has decreased by about 15%. This resulted from the worldwide loss of the forest and species existing in this forest. The cropland has enlarged progressively due to the irrigation facilities, but on the other hand it has naturally grown at the cost and expense of the lands that humans take from, the forest, grasslands and wetlands. Environmental scientists regularly relate methodology and simultaneously conduct scientific research to resolve numerous environmental related complications by reviewing all the related pieces to third issue to find out an answer to it. In modern civilization individuals consume more than they harvest or produce, therefore we can see that the overall consumption of product is rising faster than the production. The U.S. has only 4.7% of the global population, but consumes...
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