Environmentalist

and “we must accept the fact that no area on earth remains pristine or fully free of human influence” (Waller, 545). Finally, environmentalist Aldo Leopold describes wilderness as a way when “We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness”…

This article talks about how Ottawa was ranked third out of all of Canada for environmentally friendly cities. However, many environmentalists disagree for several reasons. In 2007, GreenApple released a ranking of Canada's largest cities in order of the most environmentally friendly to the least. The environmentalists disagree because Ottawa has poor pollution monitoring, bad transit policies, and not-so environmentally friendly vehicles. They say there is no way that Ottawa could rank third.…

world an unlivable place. We have to do this now instead of later. Recently, a group of environmentalists wanted to help save the planet, so they did as much research as they could to find the real issues. They found out that limiting the number of showers people take and driving your car less were not near as effective at saving the planet compared to eating less meat. There are many other environmentalists who share similar view points in this subject matter. Anyone who is interested in saving…

felling is a logging practice in which every tree is cut down from a selected area (Clear-Cutting). This method is the most common method yet the most controversial. This practice has several effects on the economy and the environment. Many environmentalists and economists argue that clear cutting has negative and positive effects. There are several arguable effects on the environment, clear cutting has. One of the biggest effects of clear cutting is the loss of habitat. Forests are dependent…

Michael Pollan author of “Playing God in the Garden” addresses that in his essay in one paragraph, in particular, he claims that “Uncertainty is the theme that unifies much of the criticism leveled against biotech agriculture by scientist and environmentalists.” Pollan believes that people are opposed to biotech agriculture because so much about it remains unknown. He chose to support his claim with different examples and by using the STARR criteria I can evaluate how effectively he supported…

Similar to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Cowspiracy discusses some of the major issues that are not noticed by the general public. By definition, Global Warming is the effect of too much greenhouse gasses inside the Earth’s atmosphere. It has been widely accepted that the causes of global warming include factories, chlorofluorocarbons, and other toxic chemicals from harmful human activities. According to the documentary Cowspiracy, the number one contributor to climate change is actually the…

comes with an offer to take back the ‘nuclear waste’ and reprocess it into more fuel. (Tucker 1466). This way nuclear energy will produce a positive impact on the environment as a result of the zero emissions of greenhouse gases, this is why environmentalist groups have changed their mind. Holman W. Jenkins, member of The Wall Street Journal Board, notes that Environmental groups, with their perhaps unmerited moral authority have insisted for years, that curbing carbons is the greatest human…

firstly, providing a global plan based on the book “Plan B” for moving the world onto an environmental and sustainable path. Secondly, Providing examples and demonstrations of executing the global plan. Lastly, advocating policy makers, academics, environmentalists and decision-makers to focus on building “Plan B” economies. The Earth Policy Institute strives to make environmental education accessible through sharing research with the general public through…

This problem finds its origins in commercial fishing and the overfishing of our oceans. A two year study was conducted by Jeremy Jackson of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography that showed 90% of big fish (swordfish and tuna) had been depleted from the ocean. A federal law was proposed to protect the oceans from overfishing but it was not approved. Jackson claims that, because fish populations are so low, 30-50% of the ocean may need to be protected from fishing in order for the populations to…

the environment. Additionally, sustainability scientists are researching practices that promote the peaceful, permanent survival of humans on Earth (O’Riordan, 2013). Millennials have been referred to as the “renewable energy generation” by environmentalists as a result of their persistent efforts to increase environmental awareness and the use of renewable energy. However, despite the world’s increasing knowledge on the detrimental effects of pollution, harm to the Earth has continued at a…