Desertification

A semi-nomadic pastoralist culture in the middle of modern, Westernizing Africa, is an ethnic group called the Tuareg. Though diverse and living in separate communities speckled throughout Algeria, Mali, and Niger, the Tuareg are united by their shared language and proud history. They were expert traders and formidable warriors, raiding and conquering to find the best land for the livestock, prior to the European colonization of Africa. For the Tuareg, it was the French that proved too…

This paper will take the reader through a summary of what I have learned by watching the Journey To Planet Earth Video Series. Summary Of The Journey To Planet Earth Video series. In the video series Journey to Planet Earth, host Matt Damon takes us on a frightening journey that aims to teach us how humans are tipping the balance of our delicate ecosystem. This is done in a way that helps viewers understand the seriousness of these environmental issues, but it also gives us hope for the…

Increased national concern has been raised over the depletion of America’s groundwater supply in recent years. Trends such as an increasing population as well as severe droughts have contributed to the development of what is a coming water crisis in the United States. With water being pumped out of the ground for consumption faster than it can be replenished, the Southwestern region of the United States, especially, are on the verge of running out of usable fresh water. The unsustainability of…

Chapter VII Conclusion and Suggestions Rapidly increasing global warming and the clearly manifested Climate change has brought people and their bodies together to seriously ponder over the issues relating to our environment. This is a fact that global warming and the resultant climate change are the two major problems relating to our ecology and environment. There is no denying the fact that in the past few decades the environmental issues have dominated the discussions and discourses in every…

2013). The clean up bill alone came to $1.9 billion (Reserved & News, 2013). Global warming has not only affected individuals and the economy, but it also affected businesses. The Canadian Plains, beautiful barren lands, have had their risk of desertification to have increased by 50% due to recent conditions (2020, 2014). This causes unemployement of agriculture, abandonnement of farms and no fresh food on the table. In the span of three seconds, humans have caused all this upon themselves. But…

M/N Skyler Stone Modern World History Paper 2: Analysis on Nick Cullather Nick Cullather’s “Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State” discusses and analyzes the attempt of modernization of Afghanistan by the United States. During the beginning of the Cold War, “the United States made southern Afghanistan a showcase of nation building.” However, as time passed the attempt to keep the showcase eventually failed. After the overview of the American policies, such as the Helmand…

Help! Our Planet is in Danger “Beyond Petroleum” was once the slogan of the big oil giant BP, before the company decided to pull the plug on its decades of R&D work on alternative energy. The organization had promised to spend a major portion of its investments on its energy efficiency and renewable energy research programs, but later, the company defaulted much of its capital on various ways to extract fossil fuels. When big oil companies like BP, Exxon Mobil and Chevron put their financial…

Climate change is defined as a long-term change in the global climate, specifically increasing average atmospheric temperature (Dictionary). In reality, it is not just an increase in temperature, climate change is rising sea levels, habitat loss, water contamination, loss of biological diversity, and so much more. In the past, climate change was a controversial debate topic, now, it is a widely accepted, inevitable fact (Think Again). Evidence for climate change became prevalent in the 1890’s,…

According to Miguel Gonzalez’s lecture on environment and development, “each inhabitant of the global north consumes 10 times more energy, 19 times more aluminum, 14 times more paper, 13 times more iron & steel; than someone from the south” (Gonzalez, 2016) However, this does not mean that inhabitants of the global south do not contribute to global depletion of natural resources and environmental degradation. As the essay question highlights, both developed and underdeveloped countries create…

1. Introduction Travel and tourism have become one of the world’s largest industries. The statistics of the World Tourism Organization (UNTWO) demonstrate that international tourists around the world doubled from 1995 to 2013; 23% of these visitors are in the Pacific Asia region which has the highest growth rate in the world (UNTWO, 2013). However, according to Gossling (2002), with the tremendous growth of domestic and international tourism, there will be increasing pressure on the climate,…