... with more industry than any of the other counties in North Carolina. The Warren County demonstrations did not stop the new landfill, but they thrust the issue of environmental racism into the national spotlight and onto the political agenda. In 1983, the United States General Accounting Office conducted a study of several Southern states that found three ... provide[s] benefits for whites while shifting costs to people of color- (60). He continues by charging that "the dominant environmental protection paradigm trades human health for profit- by failing "to develop pollution preventi...

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ROOT CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS Population growth Abuse of resources pollution The United States is the fastest growing industrialized country in the world, now increasing by approximately three million ... with climate, season, daily weather condition, geography, and topography. It needs an average of 13 mph to generate an efficient amount of power. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Environmental education seeks to awaken and explore a persons values. It attempts to educate all citizens about the environment and its problems and to motivate them to ... solve these problems. Five elements are ...

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... the realistic perspective of an environmentalist. The truth is that our high consumption is leading to destruction. The essential ozone layer is being depleted, pollution is leaking into every clean crevice, and money is more of a matter than conscientiousness. Devastating events such as the Alaskan Oil Spill have killed ... public. There is a great concern, also, with the fact that the small amount of rich people are in fact creating two-thirds of the environmental stress that is now present on the earth. United States alone is one of the most prominent contributors, with each person us...

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The measure of acidity is called pH. Our water has a pH of 7, meaning neutral. A substance with a pH of six would be considered mildly acidic, but a pH of 1 is extremely acidic. The average pH of rain in most of the Northeast is 4.3, a highly acidic rain. This is the result of a long history of industry that has existed in the area, and also because of weather patterns carrying pollution from the Midwest and similarly polluting regions. Acid rain can harm both the land and the water. It is most damaging when it falls in streams, lakes, and on thin, sandy soil low in calcium carbonate (lime). L...

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... act of 1970 is a federal law that controls the air emissions from steady and moving sources. The clean air act also gave the Environmental Protection Agency the right to create the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, which protects public health and welfare and to organize emissions of ... steel mills. Since power plants and steel mills are mainly located in cities and towns with high populations of adults and children the environmental protection agency had to take charge. These plants were burning chemicals and polluting the air people were breathing, affecting the health and welf...

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... and motor vehicles have much things to do with land loss, air pollution, global warming and ozone depletion (2). To solve this U.S. car culture problem, I have searched for solutions as follows. First, I will explain basic causes of environmental impacts. Second, I will examine constructive actions practiced by individual, environmental groups or grassroots groups. Finally I will think about some basic solutions ... Clean Air series, is presently being offered to schools and corporations. This video is an acclaimed, education video that relates what children can do to help reduce air poll...

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... our incompetency and could this have been avoided? Consequences linked with overpopulation include an increase in demand of natural resources, increase in pollution, erosion, advanced global warming, etc. In Chapter four, the first section describes the nature of the environmental problems and their costs. There are 3 things that are disrupting the ecosystems severely. The first is that the increase in human ... grow natural resources. The second section of chapter four focuses on the United States input on economic issues. The United States is linked to chemical pollution, solid waste po...

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... caused by fossil fuel burning. By targeting this source in ways that are practical we can significantly reduce it's harmful output. Cars give of one third of the world's carbon pollution and electric vehicles are being phased in through legislation requiring automobile manufactures to put electric vehicles on the market. The power to run these cars ultimately comes from electricity generating ... dam useless in the future. Nuclear power is very unpopular because of possible meltdowns, and the water used to cool the fission reaction is released into neighboring streams causing thermal po...

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... increasing population. Over the past ninety years, the United States population has increased approximately 225% (Population Growth of the Southwest United States, 1900-1990 5). This increase has caused more pollution and usage of energy sources. Fossil fuels play a key role in the lives of people across the world. From the consumers of fossil fuels, to the producers, the whole world ... 3). A rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide will result in an increase in the surface temperature of Earth. The increase of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has led to yet another environmental crisis. W...

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... to share with the class what they learned. The most common response was that they learned about the triangle symbol on recyclable products. Presenting on environmental issues was not just educational for the third graders, but for us as well. We also learned more about the environments and what we can ... do to help keep it clean and healthy. The most valuable lesson that we taught was even though our earth suffers from pollution and other environmental injustices, it can still be fixed. Together everyone can achieve more if we put the time and effort to help save our environment. ... I...

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... they been there. With the first trace of man also came the first trace of pollution. According to John Hart, Author of Saving Cities, Saving Money: Environmental Strategies that Work the first source of pollution may have been form fires that that were built in poorly ventilated caves (1). From then ... to now humans and nature have increased the pollution on the Earth. Believe it or not the Earth's pollution started even before human life ... occurs normal air mixing almost ceases and pollutants are trapped in the lower layer (Hart, 4)." This causes the ground level air to basically be...

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... . Twenty percent of the world's global population consumes approximately fifty percent of the world's natural resources and is directly responsible for seventy five percent of the world's total pollution. It is clearly seen that developed countries with their western tradition attain their economic success by overexploiting the natural resources, with a conqueror and owner of land attitude. Directly ... supplies of the nonrenewable resources. Moreover, we are saturating the earth with contaminants that the environment is not able to absorb or eliminate. Proofs of the exceeded level of pol...

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... in the atmosphere. This mixture of gases in the atmosphere is causing the worldwide problem known as Global Warming. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the earth has a natural "greenhouse effect" which is caused by energy from the sun controlling the earth's weather and climate, ... inside the city. Yet another suggestion is to require citizens to drive electric cars, or electric hybrid cars, to reduce the amount of pollution put into the atmosphere by driving. A less popular action would be to limit the amount of gasoline available to each citizen over a .....

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... in the atmosphere. This mixture of gases in the atmosphere is causing the worldwide problem known as Global Warming. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the earth has a natural "greenhouse effect" which is caused by energy from the sun controlling the earth's weather and climate, ... inside the city. Yet another suggestion is to require citizens to drive electric cars, or electric hybrid cars, to reduce the amount of pollution put into the atmosphere by driving. A less popular action would be to limit the amount of gasoline available to each citizen over a .....

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... in the atmosphere. This mixture of gases in the atmosphere is causing the worldwide problem known as Global Warming. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the earth has a natural "greenhouse effect" which is caused by energy from the sun controlling the earth's weather and climate, ... inside the city. Yet another suggestion is to require citizens to drive electric cars, or electric hybrid cars, to reduce the amount of pollution put into the atmosphere by driving. A less popular action would be to limit the amount of gasoline available to each citizen over a .....

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... in the atmosphere. This mixture of gases in the atmosphere is causing the worldwide problem known as Global Warming. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the earth has a natural "greenhouse effect" which is caused by energy from the sun controlling the earth's weather and climate, ... inside the city. Yet another suggestion is to require citizens to drive electric cars, or electric hybrid cars, to reduce the amount of pollution put into the atmosphere by driving. A less popular action would be to limit the amount of gasoline available to each citizen over a .....

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It seems one of the main drivers pushing China to excel in renewable energy is their current state of pollution. According to the article "Wind power generation in China: Understanding the mismatch between capacity and generation" by Mian Yang ... also states that China used 3.25 billion tons of coal in 2010. This article argues that the high amounts of pollution are a main factor of encouragement to invent renewable energy. The article "Environmental Health Perspectives" by Justin Remais and Junfeng Zhang argues the same thing stating that "China's dependence on coal for ... explain that Chin...

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... frustration, that the prime minister of Canada joked about declaring war on the United States. Around this time, the Environmental Defense Fund, also known as the EDF, was coming up with way of their own to approach the current problems with pollution, and they came up with the conclusion that people hate being told what to do, and they wanted to give ... with the 1998 presidential election of George H.W Bush. The president of EDF called Bush's White House counsel, Boyden Gray, suggesting that the best way for Bush to become the "environmental president" was to fix the acid rain problem...

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Car Pollution Air Pollution "According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, driving a car is the single most polluting thing that most of us do." This is not a new problem. In the 1950's the Los Angeles smog made headline news. Car exhaust causes health problems. There are many solutions to the problem. Laws were enacted as long as twenty years ago to control pollution caused ... shape. You should never over fill your gas tank. You should always use clean gas. People should buy newer cars because they are made to create less pollution. In summary, the problem of pollution fro...

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... of ice caps and significant worldwide climate changes. After the industrial revolution, we can understand the vital role of how humans are the major cause of global warming through air pollution, since this, global warming acts directly by: increase in respiratory diseases, and water shortages and acts indirectly by: natural disasters, diseases, and diet and nutrition due to ... . First off, humans don't have enough time to adapt to the high level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Approximately 158 million Americans live in counties where air pollution exceeds national health-based st...

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... increased pressure, automakers have been faced with the challenge to build more fuel-efficient cares. All new vehicles must meet federal emission standards but the older the vehicle the more pollution it produces. Automakers must conform to the laws and have responding by producing different vehicles like an electric and hybrid cars. The human perception of electric cars is that they ... of hydrogen is that it is a renewable resource that we cannot exhaust. Because cars, trucks and other mobile sources account for almost a third of the total air pollution in the United States, the Envir...

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... same air space may reduce, but does not eliminate exposure to passive smoke. In Arizona five thousand and six hundred Americans died in 1989 due to passive smoke. A recent federal Environmental protection agency reported on the dangers of second hand smoke. They found this kills fifty-three thousand non smokers a year. By putting a smoke free policy into effect, it will send ... health in a number of ways. The four major health hazards fall into air, water, and noise pollution. Air pollution can lead to various forms of respiratory disease. The main problem of smoking in a public place ...

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... came from nuclear energy and coal. More than 80 new nuclear power plants have started operating since 1973. Nuclear Energy: Clean And Green Pollution, soot and urban smog are bad news for the environment. The good news is nuclear energy. Nuclear power plants produce electricity by splitting ... "greenhouse" gas) by 147 million metric tons a year. That makes us all breathe a lot easier. Other nations have also discovered the environmental benefits of nuclear energy. France, for example "concerned about imported oil "more than tripled its nuclear energy production during the 1980s. During...

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... of gasoline are burned each and every day. At first glance, this seems like an efficient energy source, but upon closer consideration, it becomes obvious that the cost "pollution--dramatically overshadows the benefits. The outdated technology of the internal combustion engine, the apparatus used to convert this "magic liquid- into energy, is the sole culprit responsible for gasoline's ... gallons of fuel per year. In 1975, the United States government endeavored to crack down on the environmental corrosion. The government demanded strict laws enacted very quickly, but the automobile ind...

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... contradictory setting to consumers. Television advertisements present them as a way to return to nature, yet they actually accelerate existing environmental problems. Commercials often depict happy families driving in the mountains, and enjoying the serenity of the wilderness in leather seated ... make serious effort to improve these vehicles. "Federal law has allowed SUV, which are classed as light trucks, to emit up three times as much pollution per mile standard cars" (Fords 2). This is a very important development, and it depicts the kind of impact that a large amount of polluting ....

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