Post 12 Quote 3
http://famousquoteshomepage.com/Environmental_Quotes_Support_Preservation_of_Our_Natural_Environment.htm
Quote:
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”
Robert Redford (1936- )
One of Hollywood’s superstars and a legend in American popular film culture, Robert Redford is not only an actor and producer, but and environmentalist and philanthropist, as well.
Evaluation:
Robert Redford has been a long time supporter of aiding and protecting the environment. I think he feels that if the United States can spend money on protecting our borders and interest oversees than we can spend money on protecting our own resources, such as trees, water, air and land. I agree with his point of view, if we don't protect our interest what do we have to defend.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Post 11 Quote 2
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch1.htm
Quote 2:
"Plastic has acutely affected albatrosses, which roam a wide swath of the northern Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses frequently grab food wherever they can find it, which leads to many of the birds ingesting -- and dying from -- plastic and other trash. On Midway Island, which comes into contact with parts of the Eastern Garbage Patch, albatrosses give birth to 500,000 chicks every year. Two hundred thousand of them die, many of them by consuming plastic fed to them by their parents, who confuse it for food [source: LA Times]. In total, more than a million birds and marine animals die each year from consuming or becoming caught in plastic and other debris."
Evaluation:
Albatrosses inhabit a wide range of the northern Pacific Ocean, as they fly in toward the ocean surface they are grabbing whatever they can to consume. During breeding season they are taking their daily catch back to their young. The birds are not catching fish they are catching trash, such as plastic and other types of trash that they can carried away. The adults and young are consuming trash on a day to day bases, and they are dying from it. Birds are not the only life dependent on the ocean to survive are dying from mankind inventions and consumption, turtles and dolphins are included in the list of species who are dying from coming into contact with our oceans dumps. They did not have to eat the trash, but many of them are swimming through or surfacing for air are coming into contact with the surface debris.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch1.htm
Quote 2:
"Plastic has acutely affected albatrosses, which roam a wide swath of the northern Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses frequently grab food wherever they can find it, which leads to many of the birds ingesting -- and dying from -- plastic and other trash. On Midway Island, which comes into contact with parts of the Eastern Garbage Patch, albatrosses give birth to 500,000 chicks every year. Two hundred thousand of them die, many of them by consuming plastic fed to them by their parents, who confuse it for food [source: LA Times]. In total, more than a million birds and marine animals die each year from consuming or becoming caught in plastic and other debris."
Evaluation:
Albatrosses inhabit a wide range of the northern Pacific Ocean, as they fly in toward the ocean surface they are grabbing whatever they can to consume. During breeding season they are taking their daily catch back to their young. The birds are not catching fish they are catching trash, such as plastic and other types of trash that they can carried away. The adults and young are consuming trash on a day to day bases, and they are dying from it. Birds are not the only life dependent on the ocean to survive are dying from mankind inventions and consumption, turtles and dolphins are included in the list of species who are dying from coming into contact with our oceans dumps. They did not have to eat the trash, but many of them are swimming through or surfacing for air are coming into contact with the surface debris.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Post 10 Quote 1
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."- Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was a noted American anthropologist and writer. During her travels around the world, she would studied the culture of different societies. She came to the conclusion that the human race ( no matter where they live) are dependent on the environment.
I think she nailed it on the head. People do not realize how dependent they are on the environment to survive. Many believe that it is the amount of money they have, or the number of cars they own. All of that do not mean a thing if there is no clean drinking water to drink, fresh air to breathe or uncontaminated food to eat. Our race cannot make clean water, clean air or safe food.
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."- Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was a noted American anthropologist and writer. During her travels around the world, she would studied the culture of different societies. She came to the conclusion that the human race ( no matter where they live) are dependent on the environment.
I think she nailed it on the head. People do not realize how dependent they are on the environment to survive. Many believe that it is the amount of money they have, or the number of cars they own. All of that do not mean a thing if there is no clean drinking water to drink, fresh air to breathe or uncontaminated food to eat. Our race cannot make clean water, clean air or safe food.
Monday, November 21, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/opinion/the-republicans-vs-the-environment.html?_r=1&ref=cleanairact
Post 9 Source 8
Summary:
This year along the Republican controlled Congress has voted 168 times to undercut the clean air and water laws that has been an aid to cleaning up and repairing our environment since 1970. They have also bee blocking efforts to limit global warming, protect public lands and guard against future oil spills.
The old Republican guard was environmental friendly, but the ones that are in office now are more in allegiance to the industries and a constant refusal to accept the fact of climate changes that are taking place around the globe.
The Republicans claim that
"regulation cost jobs and all they are trying to do is help the working man. What they are really doing by destroying years of environmental law is putting the interests of corporations above all others and threatening public health."
Evaluation:
It comes down to this; the controlling party wants to sacrifice the health and safely of our planet for their own pockets. Regulators must go through the American Petroleum Institute (API), which is the oil's industry's lobbyist, as the law stands regulators cannot seek independent advice on drilling safety that is not affiliated with the API.
How many more lives will be lost?
How many species will go extinct?
What will it take to get our representatives to think about all of us and not just there pockets?
They claim we have too many regulations, that is why the unemployment rate is high. Our unemployment rate is 10% in this country, but our employment rate is 90%.
They need a different angle.
Post 9 Source 8
Summary:
This year along the Republican controlled Congress has voted 168 times to undercut the clean air and water laws that has been an aid to cleaning up and repairing our environment since 1970. They have also bee blocking efforts to limit global warming, protect public lands and guard against future oil spills.
The old Republican guard was environmental friendly, but the ones that are in office now are more in allegiance to the industries and a constant refusal to accept the fact of climate changes that are taking place around the globe.
The Republicans claim that
"regulation cost jobs and all they are trying to do is help the working man. What they are really doing by destroying years of environmental law is putting the interests of corporations above all others and threatening public health."
Evaluation:
It comes down to this; the controlling party wants to sacrifice the health and safely of our planet for their own pockets. Regulators must go through the American Petroleum Institute (API), which is the oil's industry's lobbyist, as the law stands regulators cannot seek independent advice on drilling safety that is not affiliated with the API.
How many more lives will be lost?
How many species will go extinct?
What will it take to get our representatives to think about all of us and not just there pockets?
They claim we have too many regulations, that is why the unemployment rate is high. Our unemployment rate is 10% in this country, but our employment rate is 90%.
They need a different angle.
Friday, November 18, 2011
http://www.newpolity.com/2010/10/21/why-we-need-to-protect-our-environment/
Post 8 Source 7
Summary:
You have two homes, you have your primary residence, such as your apartment or house and you have the earth. Without clean air, water or land it would be difficult to survive. Without a healthy planet, there would be no life here. In the United States, the environment has become a political issue. Republicans oppose the idea that humans are responsible for the pollution that causes global warming, they don't think it exists. Democrats, on the other hand has recognize that pollution is a major cause of global warming, they have sided with the scientists who has studied the evidence.
If you agreed with the Republican party, step outside while you are in the city. Take a deep breath, don't the garbage smell good, or the exhaust fumes from the automobiles smell wonderful. Now, take a trip to the country, take a breath, do you smell the garbage, how about the exhaust fumes from the automobiles?
Evaluation:
I live in the country, when I go to the city I feel the difference in air temperature. I can be chilly at my house and need a sweater to stay warm, but by the time I get to the city , I don't need it. The sweater comes off, and it goes back on the closer I get to home. I can smell the exhaust from the automobiles and trucks that go up and down the road in the cities, but at home it smells better, cleaner, and fresher.
We don't have the amount of traffic that the city does.
Washington is in denied, I use to live there. It is a dirty city, with tons and traffic. The suburbs are cleaner to look at, but it don't smell that much better. Our representatives should listen to the scientists who has study the environment and the effect that human activity has had on it, before it is too late.
Post 8 Source 7
Summary:
You have two homes, you have your primary residence, such as your apartment or house and you have the earth. Without clean air, water or land it would be difficult to survive. Without a healthy planet, there would be no life here. In the United States, the environment has become a political issue. Republicans oppose the idea that humans are responsible for the pollution that causes global warming, they don't think it exists. Democrats, on the other hand has recognize that pollution is a major cause of global warming, they have sided with the scientists who has studied the evidence.
If you agreed with the Republican party, step outside while you are in the city. Take a deep breath, don't the garbage smell good, or the exhaust fumes from the automobiles smell wonderful. Now, take a trip to the country, take a breath, do you smell the garbage, how about the exhaust fumes from the automobiles?
Evaluation:
I live in the country, when I go to the city I feel the difference in air temperature. I can be chilly at my house and need a sweater to stay warm, but by the time I get to the city , I don't need it. The sweater comes off, and it goes back on the closer I get to home. I can smell the exhaust from the automobiles and trucks that go up and down the road in the cities, but at home it smells better, cleaner, and fresher.
We don't have the amount of traffic that the city does.
Washington is in denied, I use to live there. It is a dirty city, with tons and traffic. The suburbs are cleaner to look at, but it don't smell that much better. Our representatives should listen to the scientists who has study the environment and the effect that human activity has had on it, before it is too late.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-somerhalder/accounting-for-a-manmade-_b_850745.html
Post 7 Source 6
Summary:
One year after the worst oil spill in American history, the effects of the BP oil spill is washing ashore. Dozens of dead baby dolphins, oyster populations are devastated, loss of jobs that were dependent on the ocean, gulf residents complain of health problems which are believe to be caused by the oil spill. The oil from the spill washes ashore on a daily bases.
Anyone would think that a disaster of this magnitude would give cause for our country to stop and reflect on why we continue to drill in deep and treacherous waters, especially without an adequate safety net. If the oil industry made the same investments in safety and containment, as they do in research and development then the blowout could have been avoided.
Congress is just as responsible as BP. Congress has put in place a $75 million liability cap on offshore drilling rigs. The American taxpayer is the ones who paid for the cleanup, not BP. BP spent more money on public relations, then they did on reimbursement to families who lost their loved ones during the explosion, to businesses who took a financial loss from the tourist trade and for the cleanup of the oil. They cannot compensate for the lost of wildlife to the area. The Department of Interior is given only 30 days to respond to applications for offshore drilling, this is not enough time to review the complicated permit applications.
"Only Congress can enact laws that safeguard Americans from oil spill polluters, and that provide needed resources to the federal government so they can properly oversee high-risk ocean drilling. Unless they take these and other important steps recommended by the President's Oil Spill Commission, our lawmakers in Congress will continue to leave you, me and our oceans defenseless."
Evaluation:
As far as I am concern, this disaster was completely avoidable.
Congress wants to get rid of regulations, thinking that the lapse of regulations will give the economy a boost. I disagree, at the time of the oil spill we had regulations in place, but apparently they were not enough. Congress is to busy kissing corporations butts, that they are putting the life of our planet, therefore the lives of it's people at risk. They need to stop worrying about what corporations want, they need to start thinking what is best for the earth and its inhabitants.
But, the fault does not only goes to Congress and BP; it goes to the people as well. Americans are dependent on oil and we are also it's biggest consumer. We use oil in our automobiles, buildings, planes, making clothes, paint, and plastic. We are a disposable society, if our sock has a hole in it we throw it away, we don't try to mend it. We don't think about hopping in the car to drive 5 blocks to the store, instead of riding our bikes or walking. We can asked Congress to impose more regulations and laws to prevent a repeat of the BP oil spill, but the people also must take blame for what happened off the gulf coast.
However, BP should have paid for the cost of the clean up, not the American people. If you can't afford to clean up your mess, then why are you doing it.
Post 7 Source 6
Summary:
One year after the worst oil spill in American history, the effects of the BP oil spill is washing ashore. Dozens of dead baby dolphins, oyster populations are devastated, loss of jobs that were dependent on the ocean, gulf residents complain of health problems which are believe to be caused by the oil spill. The oil from the spill washes ashore on a daily bases.
Anyone would think that a disaster of this magnitude would give cause for our country to stop and reflect on why we continue to drill in deep and treacherous waters, especially without an adequate safety net. If the oil industry made the same investments in safety and containment, as they do in research and development then the blowout could have been avoided.
Congress is just as responsible as BP. Congress has put in place a $75 million liability cap on offshore drilling rigs. The American taxpayer is the ones who paid for the cleanup, not BP. BP spent more money on public relations, then they did on reimbursement to families who lost their loved ones during the explosion, to businesses who took a financial loss from the tourist trade and for the cleanup of the oil. They cannot compensate for the lost of wildlife to the area. The Department of Interior is given only 30 days to respond to applications for offshore drilling, this is not enough time to review the complicated permit applications.
"Only Congress can enact laws that safeguard Americans from oil spill polluters, and that provide needed resources to the federal government so they can properly oversee high-risk ocean drilling. Unless they take these and other important steps recommended by the President's Oil Spill Commission, our lawmakers in Congress will continue to leave you, me and our oceans defenseless."
Evaluation:
As far as I am concern, this disaster was completely avoidable.
Congress wants to get rid of regulations, thinking that the lapse of regulations will give the economy a boost. I disagree, at the time of the oil spill we had regulations in place, but apparently they were not enough. Congress is to busy kissing corporations butts, that they are putting the life of our planet, therefore the lives of it's people at risk. They need to stop worrying about what corporations want, they need to start thinking what is best for the earth and its inhabitants.
But, the fault does not only goes to Congress and BP; it goes to the people as well. Americans are dependent on oil and we are also it's biggest consumer. We use oil in our automobiles, buildings, planes, making clothes, paint, and plastic. We are a disposable society, if our sock has a hole in it we throw it away, we don't try to mend it. We don't think about hopping in the car to drive 5 blocks to the store, instead of riding our bikes or walking. We can asked Congress to impose more regulations and laws to prevent a repeat of the BP oil spill, but the people also must take blame for what happened off the gulf coast.
However, BP should have paid for the cost of the clean up, not the American people. If you can't afford to clean up your mess, then why are you doing it.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Summary:
http://www.who.int/topics/air_pollution/en/
Post 6 Source 5
Air pollution is contamination of the indoor or outdoor environment by any chemical, physical or biological agent that changes the natural characteristics of the atmosphere. Household combustion devices, motor vehicles, industrial facilities and forest fires are common sources of air pollution. In some third world countries, it is not uncommon for dung to be used as a indoor heating source and it is also used as fuel for cooking. Outdoor and indoor air pollution cause respiratory and other diseases, which can be fatal. The health problems can include pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer. There is evidence that links air pollution to low birth weight, TB, heart disease and other forms of cancer.
Evaluation:
In developed countries, regulations have been put in place to curved the amount of pollutants that enter of air. But, is it to late? In undeveloped countries (third world) many people uses resources that is readily available to them such as dung to help provide heat and cooking fuel for their homes. They do not have the luxury of in-home heating, electricity or water as do the people that lived in developed countries. Many of the governments in the third world are poor and therefore cannot provide their citizens with the essentials that developed nations have.
The United Nations and other international organizations have looked into educating the officials and their citizens in other forms of heat and cooking fuel. But, many of these people cannot afford the financial cost that will allow them these alternatives. At the time of this writing the United States have an unemployment rate of 10%, unemployment rate in third world countries are as high as 35%. Their nations do not have programs in placed such as food stamps or unemployment. These families must used the only resources that are available to them in order to provide for their families, even if it causes pollution.
We can do more in developed nations to ease the strain on our atmosphere, but until a solution can be found to ease the burden imposed on poorer nations, what alternatives do they have?
http://www.who.int/topics/air_pollution/en/
Post 6 Source 5
Air pollution is contamination of the indoor or outdoor environment by any chemical, physical or biological agent that changes the natural characteristics of the atmosphere. Household combustion devices, motor vehicles, industrial facilities and forest fires are common sources of air pollution. In some third world countries, it is not uncommon for dung to be used as a indoor heating source and it is also used as fuel for cooking. Outdoor and indoor air pollution cause respiratory and other diseases, which can be fatal. The health problems can include pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer. There is evidence that links air pollution to low birth weight, TB, heart disease and other forms of cancer.
Evaluation:
In developed countries, regulations have been put in place to curved the amount of pollutants that enter of air. But, is it to late? In undeveloped countries (third world) many people uses resources that is readily available to them such as dung to help provide heat and cooking fuel for their homes. They do not have the luxury of in-home heating, electricity or water as do the people that lived in developed countries. Many of the governments in the third world are poor and therefore cannot provide their citizens with the essentials that developed nations have.
The United Nations and other international organizations have looked into educating the officials and their citizens in other forms of heat and cooking fuel. But, many of these people cannot afford the financial cost that will allow them these alternatives. At the time of this writing the United States have an unemployment rate of 10%, unemployment rate in third world countries are as high as 35%. Their nations do not have programs in placed such as food stamps or unemployment. These families must used the only resources that are available to them in order to provide for their families, even if it causes pollution.
We can do more in developed nations to ease the strain on our atmosphere, but until a solution can be found to ease the burden imposed on poorer nations, what alternatives do they have?
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Land Pollution
http://www.earthplatform.com/c/pollution/land
Post 5 Source 4
Summary:
Land pollution is contaminated, with bad toxic chemicals and waste that is either left on purpose or dumped on the land. Human activities continue to leave waste throughout the nation due in particular to much unnecessary packaging, We do not recycle enough of the waste we have created to make our lives more easier, food is wrapped in paper and plastic. A number of drinks are in thrown-away cans and bottles. A popular solution to land pollution is the 3 R's; Reduce, reuse and recycle. We can try to prevent pollution by disposing of waste correctly. We can cut down on the waste we use by recycling or donating certain items where they will be reused. The long term effects of pollution can and will affect health as time goes by.
Evaluation:
Common sense would tell a person to pick up after yourself. People are more protective of their bank accounts than the earth, you can have a million of dollars but it will not buy you clean air to breathe, clean water is drink, nor healthy food to eat. If people do not get serious about environmental issues and do not work on cleaning, maintaining and protecting our land from chemicals that can be deadly to the all creatures. Our species can join the ranks of the dinosaurs into extinction.
Post 5 Source 4
Summary:
Land pollution is contaminated, with bad toxic chemicals and waste that is either left on purpose or dumped on the land. Human activities continue to leave waste throughout the nation due in particular to much unnecessary packaging, We do not recycle enough of the waste we have created to make our lives more easier, food is wrapped in paper and plastic. A number of drinks are in thrown-away cans and bottles. A popular solution to land pollution is the 3 R's; Reduce, reuse and recycle. We can try to prevent pollution by disposing of waste correctly. We can cut down on the waste we use by recycling or donating certain items where they will be reused. The long term effects of pollution can and will affect health as time goes by.
Evaluation:
Common sense would tell a person to pick up after yourself. People are more protective of their bank accounts than the earth, you can have a million of dollars but it will not buy you clean air to breathe, clean water is drink, nor healthy food to eat. If people do not get serious about environmental issues and do not work on cleaning, maintaining and protecting our land from chemicals that can be deadly to the all creatures. Our species can join the ranks of the dinosaurs into extinction.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
water bottle pollution in the environment
http://greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/water-bottle-pollution-2947.html?source=glmore
Post 4 Source 3
Summary:
Consumers drink approximately 30 gallons more per person of bottle water then they did in 1976. Bottled water creates more pollution than tap water annually, do to the production and transportation cost of the plastic bottles which requires millions of barrels of oil per year. Americans are the top consumers of bottle water, purchasing an estimated 29 billion bottles a year. The recycling rate of these bottles are only 13% where as the rest finds themselves in landfills throughout the country where some will find their way into the ocean and other water sources.
Evaluation:
If consumers would cut back on their bottle water consumption, it would benefit the environment are us dramatically. If the amount of bottle water consumed by each person was reduce, then less oil would be used for the production and transportation of this product.
Post 4 Source 3
Summary:
Consumers drink approximately 30 gallons more per person of bottle water then they did in 1976. Bottled water creates more pollution than tap water annually, do to the production and transportation cost of the plastic bottles which requires millions of barrels of oil per year. Americans are the top consumers of bottle water, purchasing an estimated 29 billion bottles a year. The recycling rate of these bottles are only 13% where as the rest finds themselves in landfills throughout the country where some will find their way into the ocean and other water sources.
Evaluation:
If consumers would cut back on their bottle water consumption, it would benefit the environment are us dramatically. If the amount of bottle water consumed by each person was reduce, then less oil would be used for the production and transportation of this product.
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