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    Littering is a negative impact of the plastic bags. Wind and water can carry plastic bags or plastic fragments to different places including city streets, rivers, sea and other natural environment (Environment Protection Authority [EPA] 2016). Consequently…

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    MARINE POLLUTION The effect that marine pollution has on people’s lives, often goes unnoticed. “Out of sight, out of mind,” is what author Ted Danson said in his book, Oceana. If people knew how their everyday life effected the ocean, they would be appalled. The oceans are dying right in front of people’s eyes, yet they continue to contribute to the ocean’s downfall. Only when you look below the surface, when you really dive deep, do you begin to understand what great peril the oceans are truly…

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    blame you. Who would want to read some boring ‘save the earth’ article by some tree hugger when the alternative was reading about Kim Kardashian’s latest Twitter beef. I mean we are all fully aware that the ecosystem is really important and yeah littering is bad and you wouldn’t do it but in all honesty it wouldn’t make that much of a difference, would it? Arbitrary thoughts for an ignorant mind. We’re all so blissfully unaware of what’s really going on in the world. So now that I’ve piqued…

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    went from living in simplicity to living materialistically. Environmental deficit is serious, long-term harm to the environment caused by humanity’s focus on short-term material affluence. One long term effect of environmental deficit is global warming. Global warming is an irreversible effect, what’s done is done. Global warming involves climate change, ice melting worldwide…

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    seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year” (McDermott). This is just one of the many ways humans are destroying marine life. According to CEF, “many ships lose thousands of crates each year due to storms, emergencies, and accidents” (“Causes and Effects of Ocean Pollution”). These crates usually contain harmful…

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    The following critique essay aims to critically engage with Douglass North’s Structure and Change in Economic History through an examination of North’s theoretical propositions and an analysis of his application of these theoretical foundations to various historical periods of rapid economic transformation. Specifically, the first section will pull out North’s primary theoretical assertions and assess their merits relative to their primary theoretical rivals. The second section will examine two…

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    and industrial sites, illegal dumping, pouring chemical waste down drains. Litter Litter is unsightly and can injure or kill wildlife. Litter can also release toxins into the environment and can block rivers and streams damaging wetland habitats. Littering is caused by: illegal dumping, overflowing bins and thoughtlessness. Peat…

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    Born in 1967, Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic contemporary artist whose works have been recognised and exhibited worldwide. Growing up in Copenhagen with separated Icelandic parents, he showed interest in art from a young age, following his artist father to their family home in Iceland each summer. Eliasson had his first solo show very young, at 15, exhibiting drawings at a small gallery in Denmark. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 to 1995, and since then has had…

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    Once again we come to the scene of an environmental and economic argument. I think it is demonstrated on the news and in many scholarly settings. I liked the contrast in options offered in the two videos that we witnessed in the video. The opinion held by a majority of the democratic community is that the earth is on the fast track to self-destruction, and anyone who denies this is inhibiting the world of opportunity and time to heal is selfish and immoral. On the opposing side the republicans…

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    interference in their echolocation: reflected sound which is used to identify the location of objects. The U.S. Navy made frequent use of high sonar to test and train themselves, which causes potentially worse effects and…

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