down all the Truffula trees resulting into the production of the poor quality and a toxic environment. The fundamental teachings from the process are that it is not good for a business to seek aggressive expansion at the expense of trees and the environment. The Lorax story reveals how the corporate greed can lead to human actions that can spoil the environment for personal business benefits. Lorax activity is against I=PAT theory advocating for the environmental problems…
unstable surface. Since the beginning of persistent mudboil activity in the 1970’s, natural landscapes and engineered features have become subject to land-subsidence as mudoils continually deteriorate the areas in their path (Tresohlavy 2003, pp. 27). Petroleum pipeline rerouting, telephone cable burials, and the collapse of bridges have demonstrated the true capabilities of mudboil persistence and destruction (Kappel & McPherson, 1998). These impacts have created a motive for truly solving the…
approximately as low as 59 degrees Fahrenheit and as high as 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. The other types of resources suggest that today’s 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit is much warmer than the past temperature periods. Climate change is mostly caused by the human activities, which causes an increase of greenhouse gasses. Including, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous gasses, fluorinated gasses, and other types of gasses. The burning of fossil fuels and the cutting rainforests can cause an increase in…
The Anthropocene Extinction refers to the nature of human effects on the environment causing what scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. The collision between civilization and the planet’s ecosystem has resulted in the rapid loss of biodiversity and current extinction crisis (Wake and Vredenburg 2008). The socio-environmental issue of how human behaviors impact biodiversity is addressed in the documentary Racing Extinction which I’ve chosen to analyze (Racing Extinction 2015). The…
name a few. I interviewed Mara Herman, who is currently the Health Outreach Coordinator, she advocates educating people about the strong connection between power plant emissions and human health. The organization believes that human activity plays a large role in global warming and in turn a polluted environment harms human health. The organization tackles its objectives by employing interdisciplinary approaches, allowing the organization to…
and crowded landfills are just some of the many environmental problems that have significant impact on developing and industrial countries. Aside from these, perhaps one more threat to the environment, but a less ominous one, is the general increase in temperatures around the world and its resulting climatic changes. This phenomenon, known as global warming, certainly has serious unfavorable effects on humans and other living creations on the planet. But as a complex problem, governments and…
the knowledge of how human activity has been an impact on the environment, it has also given me the awareness of the hazards of human activities for survival. I believe if we look into changing our beliefs, attitudes, laws and relationship towards nature and other kinds of species and re-evaluating our relationship with our environment, things will get better. I agree with Taylor 2013 “to resituate within the ecological system” and Gibson et al, 2012 “to resituate non-humans within ethical…
There is a steadily growing consensus that recent human activity has had such an impact that it has shifted the Earth into a new geologic epoch of our own making. The advent of this epoch, known as the Anthropocene, has generated much discussion and tension between the various science disciplines. The major issue being discussed is whether there is a need for a new era covering the last three centuries of human impact on the planet. Defining this epoch, in terms of both time and space, has also…
way we look at human-environment relationships and environmental problems. The only way to truly understand the past regarding human impact on the environment is to analyze and evaluate these myths critically to understand where they came from and why they came to be. The first of these myths suggests that the humans of the past had a more harmonious relationship with the environment than the current generation (Roos 2018). This type of thinking assumes that harm to the environment didn’t occur…
synonymous with rising international trade, has fostered the rapid production, consumption of material goods and trade in unprecedented quantities. This has weighted the ecological footprint of human activities around the world. Globalisation accompanied by impacts on the interlinked areas of environment, equality and political stable, and thus there are clear and established connections with the concept of sustainable development (Little and Green, 2009). Theoretical debate about globalisation…