ISEC Prompt: Scientific dilemmas today occur on a global stage and require international cooperation. Please choose one pressing scientific issue and explain: the problem as it exists today, the point it can reach before action must be taken, some potential courses of action to combat the problem, and the global implications of solving or avoiding the issue. Topic suggestions include, but are not limited to: alternative energy sources, global climate change, increased rate of species extinction
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There are many things people say about global warming and how it affects earth. There are many ways that people try to define the way it works are what it really is. Way back in the ages were people was just starting to realize what this huge rock was and what we called earth and how it work. There some that try to break down or really understand the ways that global warming work and how they can stop the dangerous affect that it cause on earth. Then there some that thinks it a man-made myth that
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Global Warming Global warming has been one of the most fervently debated and scientifically challenging topics of the 21st century. According to NASA, as early as 1904, Swedish scientist, Svante Arrhenius, was among the “first persons acknowledged to investigate the effects of doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide and how this would affect the global climate”. (1) As technology and scientific studies progressed throughout the 1900’s and into the 21st century, the effect of human civilizations on
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advance country and city with the worst air pollution, but the capital city of developing countries also begin to apply it. Car Free Day usually do once a week on weekend or Sunday. Government expected with this program .it can discharged the extra global warming gases into the atmosphere. On car free day people usually do some activities like sport or do some hobbies. Car free day excecute on the main
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Farm Factories “It takes 5,000 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat while growing one pound of wheat takes only 25 gallons”(Go Veg, Wasted Resource). The number of people who want to help the environment is growing but many of them do not know how to give a helping hand. There are many things out there that can be done to help the planet from self destruction, but one of the best ways would be to consider a life of vegetarianism. Farm factories are having many negative impacts on our
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ffThe Motel Pool Thesis: The author explores the simple event of children playing in a pool, to implicitly personify images of birth, apocalypse and rebirth which connect to the birth and destruction of our world. | “The plump good-natured children play in the blue pool: roll and plop, plop and roll;” * This line depicts the innocence of the children which allows you to see the images of the world when it was once pure and blue; the blue pool is the world * The roll and plop, plop and
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A gentle breeze blows uninterrupted across a barren landscape. With every gust, small particles of dirt, once held in place by the mighty roots of towering trees, fly into the air. The wind carries the particles for miles and miles of infertile land. If logging continues at its present pace, the inhabitants of Earth may expect their home to resemble this horrid scene. For centuries, people have been taking natural resources from Earth; unfortunately, in recent years humans have increased the pace
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Most accounts of issues claim that there are a variety of benefits of recycling. “Recycling is the process of converting products back into their constituent raw materials and then reprocessing this raw into new article” (Healey, 1999). People’s desire is limitless, but the resources in the world are not infinite. In daily life, there are so many products that can be seen everywhere, for instance, glass, paper, steel, plastic products and rubber products. Hence, ignoring recycling is a large waste
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about global warming and what is really to blame. In this paper the author will give their opinion on what is to blame and why they feel this way. And if global warming is really going on or if it is just people looking to try and justify their opinions. * Climate changes * Too hot * Too cold * The sea animals * Animal population on the rise * Animal population on the down fall * Caused by humans * Why do you think humans caused global warming
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is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations". If we expect our planet to be around for the future, then we need to change our attitudes now. We cannot wait until it is too late before we decide to act. We need a wakeup call ... and soon. Global warming, deforestation, strip mining, frakking for natural gas deposits, depletion of our renewable sources and carbon emissions are all contributing to mankind's ever encroaching, and too often, indelible carbon footprint. Take a look at some of
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