...Asthma affects the public by “keeping kids out of school, about 10 million school days are lost per year. Aside from keeping kids out of school, it can also keep kids on the sidelines and away from physical activities such as soccer, mush ball, and basketball.” Asthma also affects the public by “causing two million emergency visits. Not only does it cause emergency visits but it also causes employees to lose about 14 million work days per year.” At the rate medication is improving, in my opinion, the chances of preventing and stopping asthma completely is a possibility. Particulate Matter is a form of air pollutant which if left uncheck will trigger asthma attacks. “Particulate Matter consist of dust, fly ash, soot, diesel exhaust particles,...
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...engineering, law, politics, and ethics Berg and Hager (2009). Environmental Science is all about understanding the environment, how it works and how to protect it in the future. Science and technology has affected the environment for the good and bad. One thing that has been good for the environment is hybrid cars because it cuts out the toxins that other vehicles give off which is a whole lot better for the environment. Environmental sustainability is very important because we need to know the changes the environment goes and make changes where need be. I feel like this should be studied because the world is changing everyday and it is an important to know what’s going on. Air pollution is getting worse and by having somebody studying this they can find a solution and help improve air pollution. Mankind impact on Earth has really affected the way the world is today, this wasn’t internal but sometimes with technology there is a positive and a negative. According to this AAAS report, approximately half of it is land surface that we have transformed concomitant widespread impacts on the planet's forests, oceans, freshwater, and atmosphere (Harrison and Pearce 2001). Human activities play a huge role on global warming but I think that it is going to take human activities to solve the problem. Environmental ethics...
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...Activities such as bathing and washing clothes near lakes, ponds or rivers add nutrients like nitrogen into the water bodies. Land Pollution These chemicals come from industrial activities and from bad waste disposal. Soil pollution may cause health risks. They include the sound of vehicles, loud speakers, etc. Noise pollution can cause ear problems or even permanent deafness. Noise Pollution Air Pollution Water Pollution Pollution Pollution Facts & Types of Pollution by Alina Bradford, Live Science Contributor | March 10, 2015 10:05pm ET Pollution is the process of making land, water, air or other parts of the environment dirty and unsafe or unsuitable to use. This can be done through the introduction of a contaminant into a natural environment, but the contaminant doesn't need to be tangible. Things as simple as light, sound and temperature can be considered pollutants when introduced artificially into an environment. Toxic pollution affects more than 200 million people worldwide, according to Pure Earth, a non-profit environmental organization. In some of the world’s worst polluted places, babies are born with birth defects, children have lost 30 to 40 IQ points, and life expectancy may be as low as 45 years because of cancers and other diseases. Read on to find out more about specific types of pollution. Land pollution Land can become polluted by household garbage and by industrial waste. In 2010, Americans produced about 250 million tons (226.8 million...
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...Story Of Stuff, Referenced and Annotated Script By Annie Leonard Do you have one of these? I got a little obsessed with mine, in fact I got a little obsessed with all my stuff. Have you ever wondered where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out.? I couldn’t stop wondering about that. So I looked it up. And what the text books said is that our stuff simply moves along these stages: extraction to production to distribution to consumption to disposal. All together, it’s called the materials economy. Well, I looked into it a little bit more. In fact, I spent 10 years traveling the world tracking where our stuff comes from and where it goes.1 And you know what I found out? That is not the whole story. There’s a lot missing from this explanation. For one thing, this system looks like it’s fine. No problem. But the truth is it’s a system in crisis. And the reason it is in crisis is that it is a linear system and we live on a finite planet and you can not run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.2 Every step along the way, this system is interacting with the real world. In real life it’s not happening on a blank white page. It’s interacting with societies, cultures, economies, the environment. And all along the way, it’s bumping up against limits. Limits we don’t see here because the diagram is incomplete. So let’s go back through, let’s fill in some of the blanks and see what’s missing. Well, one of the most important things that is missing...
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...Generation: A carbon-free future based on renewable energy that will end our common dependency on fossil fuels, including coal; An individual’s commitment to responsible, sustainable consumption; Creation of a new green economy that lifts people out of poverty by creating millions of quality green jobs and transforms the global education system into a green one. Furthermore, everyone is encouraged to participate and conduct their own activity in lieu of the celebration of Earth Day. Last year, our organization had a tree planting activity at Laguna Bay. We had 1000 seedlings and almost 50 students participated in the said activity. We are expecting to have another similar activity for this year and looks forward in having more participants. Let us do our part for Mother Earth everyday even if it’s not Earth Day. Go extra-mile in saving our only Earth and revive its former air. Happy Earth Day everyone! Philippines Green Movement – Are You Going or Not? by Nicole I still remember when my friend asked me to join a marathon for a cause. Back then, I was really a busy bee and just the thought of running for several miles makes me exhausted already so I turned her invitation down. However, just when the marathon was over, I wondered how I managed to let that great opportunity pass. Then I realized that being a citizenof my country, I should have the initiative to join such movements especially if it caters to preservation of the environment. There are a lot of...
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...Scientific discovery - finding out about something about the existing workings of nature that was not known before * Technology - application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes (e.g. antibiotics and their uses) * Invention - newly created product/process Science today causes as many problems as it solves. * Horrible pervasions of science * E.g. Invention of poison gas (holocaust), war against Japan ended with the atomic bomb * Even when science is intended to benefit humans, unintended consequences could occur. * E.g. Rachel carson's silent spring (1963) awakened the world to the dangers of pollution * How science in the service of business can produce catastrophic results ; pesticides for farms -> Are we blinded by profit so much so we don't do not care about the environment? * *air pollution is the biggest cause of human deaths today Science, money and value * Science is very much subservient to business interest today -> values of those who seek fame and fortune creep into science: profit often determines the direction of science, influencing the choice of problem investigated by scientists * needs and requirements of rich and middle-class are emphasised * celebrity problems are given more attention * E.g. Breast cancer is given attention because celebrities promote it; bowel cancer, though more common, is unglamorous and neglected * focus on finding a profitable cure that...
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...Environmental Pollution Pollution has been an issue for years. As time has gone on, the need for clean air has never been more of a necessity than it is today. Cities are growing every minute and the amount of space for the increased population has done but decrease. Living in a city means travel. Everyone wants a vehicle to pack of their family and friends to go on road trips or to make it to work on time. The problem with this is that there simply is not enough to go around. Congested roads doesn’t help anyone. The longer a car sits idling it is emitting fumes into the air that contributes to air pollution. Air pollution affects everyone within a small radius and even further. Cars that are not properly maintained can also release even more bad fumes into the air. This contributes to global warming on wide scale. There are a number of ways to help reduce the amount of fumes that enter the earth’s atmosphere and also gives people a way to get around. Saving our community, getting people to work on time, and giving our earth back just as much as it’s given to us is the least we can do. Making small changes to our routine can impact our community and environment. Changes do not need to be radical, instead they need to be simple so that everyone can get on board. Change one: Random emission testing. Every person who has a vehicle understands that it needs basic maintenance to keep it running smooth. Regular oil changes, proper fuel, and good tires will make the car run for...
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...methods offered by communities, cities, and schools. States and government agencies almost always use cost as a scape goat in the protection of our environment. Our environment needs the protection of us all and we need to come together to combat this problem as a nation and eventually as a world effort or we will not have a world to protect. We can control ground pollution with proper prevention methods because of education of standards for soil contamination and ground water contamination. The first topic we should discuss is Soil Contamination. We take for granted our environment and it has such a fragile ecosystem. Most of our Resources and food sources come from the ground and are contributing to the pollution on and in the ground. “Soil pollution is a result of many activities and experiments done by mankind which end up contaminating the soil.” (Ujwal Deshmukh) Through the mining of some of our resources we end up with solid material waste. Tens of thousands of unreclaimed hard rock mining sites, abandoned generations ago, litter the landscape. Many of those sites constitute sources of substantial acid mine drainage to streams and rivers, release large quantities of toxic metals into sensitive watersheds, emit pollutants to the air surrounding nearby towns and cities, and otherwise present significant threats to public health and the environment.(EPA, 1997) The leading cause of coastal and inland water pollution is agricultural runoff. Urban land development...
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...Economic and Global Health Economic growth and the financial prosperity of a nation are proven to have a positive effect on population health. The causative paths that lead from increased wealth to improvements in health are well understood and broadly recognised. Populations with greater economic opportunities tend to have ready access to quality healthcare, less exposure to environmental hazards, better access to clean water, and improved opportunities to develop better preventative behaviour patterns. While being richer does lead to health improvements, it is also true that there is a causative relationship in the other direction too. Health improvements lead to increased wealth and poverty reduction in four ways: Firstly, healthier populations are more economically productive; secondly, proactive healthcare leads to decrease in many of the additive healthcare costs associated with lack of care (treating opportunistic infections in the case of HIV for example); thirdly, improved health represents a real economic and developmental outcome in-and-of itself and finally, healthcare spending capitalises on the Keynesian 'economic multiplier' effect. Industry and Global Health The global healthcare industry in the future will be a highly connected environment powered by large data networks, cloud computing, and mobile devices. There will be widespread increases in the number of connected healthcare networks providing seamless integration between care providers, patients...
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...cigarettes. In response to the current knowledge concerning hazards to both smokers and those non-smokers who are in the same location as smokers, health professionals and the public have demanded that laws protect the community. Therefore, governments have banned cigarette smoking in public places such as shopping centers, schools and hospitals. Also, most businesses have allocated an area for cigarette smoking to ensure that those who are adversely affected to the by-products of smoking are not exposed to tobacco. Smokers feel discriminated against by these laws believing they are now branded as social outcasts and that others cannot make laws that prohibit smoking in private cars and homes. However, non-smokers and health professionals continue to call for even tighter restrictions to ensure the entire community especially children, are safe. When the health of those who have medical conditions is aggravated by tobacco smoking or when children are adversely affected, smoking must be banned. Inhaling the smoke exhaled by a cigarette smoker or the smoke that emanates from a cigarette end is harmful to those who do so. Unfortunately, many are exposed to this smoke in circumstances that give them no say. This is especially so if these unwilling smokers are children or when the smoker smokes in a public place. Cigarette smoke has been said to contain many dangerous chemicals such as arsenic, ammonia and even hydrogen cyanide among hundreds of others (Gilmore, 2005). These chemicals...
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...INTRODUCTION With the great concern surrounding the destruction of the earth's atmosphere due to air pollution, the immediate and direct harm caused to the human body is often over shadowed. While many are aware that our careless use of hazardous chemicals and fossil fuels may leave the planet uninhabitable in the future, most over look the fact that they also cause real damage to our bodies at this moment. Such pollutants cause damage to our respiratory system, leading to the fluctuation of the life span of an individual depending on a number of conditions. Amongst these conditions are the individuals specific geographic location, age, and life style. In this essay I will try to explain what pollutants are and how they affect our bodies. What are the pollutants? And how do they affect our bodies? In order to understand how air pollution affects our body, you must understand exactly what this pollution is. The pollutants that harm our respiratory system are known as particulates. Particulates are the small solid particles that you can see through a ray of sunlight. They are products of incomplete combustion in engines example: automobile engines, road dust, and wood smoke. Billions of tons of coal and oil are consumed around the world every year. When these fuels burn they produce smoke and other by-products into the atmosphere. Although wind and rain occasionally wash away the smoke given off by power plants and automobiles, much still remains. Particulate matter (soot...
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... | | | | | |Atty. Vicente T. Peña | Environmental pollution is “the contamination of the physical and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system to such an extent that normal environmental processes are adversely affected” Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that causes adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light. Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution. Although pollution...
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...by Susan Photos he s from t Excerpt With de ion GNuLiINE Broadcast DiscussPBS FRO T Welcome to POISONED WATERS This discussion guide and DVD are drawn from the PBS FRONTLINE investigative report, POISONED WATERS with Hedrick Smith as correspondent. In that program, we showed the kinds of pollution now contaminating America’s waterways, political obstacles blocking restoration of great estuaries like Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound, and some local strategies that have scored successes. We have designed this kit to stimulate public discussion of effective techniques and crucial issues of educational reform. It is intended for teachers, parents, principals, administrators and anyone interested in improving public schools. Photo by: Susan Zox How To Use This Guide This guide can be used either with a DVD of the two-hour documentary, POISONED WATERS, or with the special DVD clip reel of program excerpts. The guide is broken into several sections. On pages 1 and 22, you’ll find a description of the main elements of the program. Pages 2-21 set out ten topics for discussion, selected to highlight important issues in protecting our waters. For example, stormwater runoff, agricultural pollution, new chemical contaminants, how grass-roots action can force a Superfund cleanup or control development. Each topic is covered by a two-page write-up and suggested questions. A matching video segment illustrates the issue. Select a topic and read the summary. Watch the matching segment on the...
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...Petrochemicals and their byproducts, such as dioxin, are known to cause an array of serious health problems, including cancers and endocrine disruption. Of the more than 75,000 chemicals registered with the Environmental Protection Agency, only a fraction have gone through complete testing to find out whether they might cause problems for human health. Many that are produced in enormous quantities have never been tested at all. Usually, it takes dramatic episodes of workplace injuries or wildlife poisonings, combined with rigorous scientific proof of harm and public outcry, before the government will act to restrict or ban any chemical. And that is no accident. The current regulatory system allows synthetic chemicals into our lives unless proven beyond doubt to be dangerous. Terms Dioxins are not intentionally manufactured. They are unintentionally formed as byproducts of chemical processes involving chlorine, such as the manufacture of pesticides and the bleaching of paper. The manufacture and incineration of plastics such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC, commonly used in consumer product packaging and medical devices) is another major source of dioxin. Two of the most serious health effects of dioxin exposure are cancer and endocrine disruption. The endocrine system is a complex network of glands and hormones that regulate many of the body's functions including growth, development, and maturation, and the way various organs operate. The endocrine glands –- including the pituitary...
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