Environmental Risk Perception Paper
Fredrick B. Lowe
PSY/460
June 20, 2016
Susie Ingram

Environmental Risk Perception Paper

One environmental risk that is taking over now and is getting a lot of press is global warming. I decided to pick this risk because if we do not do something now we will be in a lot of trouble later with this issue. It seems like the world is taking this environmental risk lightly, and I attribute this to the lack of education. I feel that if the world were more educated on this issue it would get the attention that it needs. Global warming has been one of the more commonly discussed environmental issues in the news lately. I picked two articles on this issue with the first article rating global warming as being a high risk and the second article seems to be not much concerned with global warming as being a major issue of the world.

The first article focuses on the impact of the tourist transport industry and how this affects the environment along with global warming. The article points out that tourist travel by bus, train, car, plane, etc. and it let us know that traveling from both air and road can burn large quantities of fossil fuels, and also release high levels of pollutants into the atmosphere. The article also talks about how parking and ground level car movement can be harmful to landscapes and the undisturbed nature of protective areas. The article seems to focus more on air and road transport because these the two that are burning more fossil fuels and damaging the environment on a daily basis. When going through this article it points out that air transport is the main gas responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. The article says that road transport is responsible for at least 90% of the carbon oxide emissions, which makes it the main source so far. This article is based on a research study about how these harmful