The Importance Of Environmental Hazards

An environmental hazard poses a threat to not only the surrounding environment, but potentially to the health of people living in that area. An environmental hazard can be anything from toxic waste production, air pollution, garbage disposal to pesticide poisons. This wide range of dangerous hazards all produce adverse effects; creating an overall negative impact. Location of these environmental hazards are usually distributed based on race and income. In which most of these communities do not have enough power to speak against the development of these unwanted environmental hazards. This exposure in low income and minority areas generate many predicted dangers, but is still done despite the outcome. Inevitably as time passes, these environmental …show more content…
Deliberately people need to recognize where all products used come from and what impacts they have; seeing if it is acceptable to consume or buy in the end. When examining these certain factors; something should be considered sustainable is the resources needed to produce it can be supplied and replaced constantly. Additionally, people’s lifestyles only progressively add more pressure on nature and the environments where life is present. An example of the way sustainability can be preserved is through interactions with national parks and state forests. Usually forests are abused for many reasons; trees are often chopped down and not allowed time to grow back, so vast territory is cut down. Instead by valuing these crucial territories and protecting what they have to offer, we can create a more enduring and viable habitat. These benefits will last into the future, often in native forests many components go into deciding what will be affected before cutting down the trees. When harvesting timber, the area being cut down is restricted, the forests continue to provide timber with little threat to biodiversity. This way trees still provide seeds in order for the forests to regrow again naturally after being cut down; replacing resources and managing …show more content…
Instead of this issue being based off of ethical theories, incorporating sustainability made me look at it in a larger context. In ways which this issue can affect the environment, people, and economics not only now, but for future generations. Ethical issues begin to arise when people or regions are subjected to a more heightened risk than others in a movement that only benefits some. Sustainability avoids deficiently of non-renewable resources; these hazardous areas are depreciating the land and air. In addition, sustainability ensures responsible management and ethical success. The racism that is apparent, tends to be forced upon poor communities because most pollution and deterioration is caused by the actions of people higher up who have limitless consumption habits. This burden is often exported elsewhere; in places of low income and minority communities. These communities then are compelled to live with the negative and disproportionate environmental hazards. These trends will only advance with economic expansion; with more natural resources being absorbed and in the end jeopardizing the