Environmental science

The industrial revolution causes the environmental crisis and it affects humanity deeply and irreversibly. There is no doubt that this brings back religion in a new form which is supposed to give answers to those questions that technology cannot answer. How could the spirituality of deep ecology help the environmental movement? Religion has faith which serves for answering all of the questions which cannot be tackled by technology, innovation and science. There is a void which is fulfilled by…

Go Green is a new catchphrase and phenomenon which aspires to raise environmental consciousness. Environmental awareness is a broad term including global warming, pollution, clean accessible water, organic foods, animal protection, and reforestation. Today’s environmental movement encompasses many ideas and concerns, but the modern environmental movement originated in the 1960s with one particular issue: pesticides. Rachel Carson, a biologist, raised American consciousness about pesticides with…

used by the companies. Rachel’s book, Silent Spring, lead to many environmental changes that took place in the chemical industry. Today, the teachings of Rachel Carson have influenced many environmentalists, and they have raised environmental consciousness throughout the country. Rachel Carson’s goal in writing Silent Spring was to raise awareness of the use of the…

Rachel Carson and Climate Change Today Rachel Carson, a renowned author of the famous text on environmental conservation, played a very significant role in influencing the way the world perceived and addressed environmental conservation. In her earlier publications, Carson tried to demonstrate and convince the world that people were not at the core of the earth’s ecosystem. She reinforced this view by describing the environment form the position of creatures that were not human . Her most…

of the three decades, the issue of environmental management has emerged in international debates while at the same time, countless numbers of research continues to revealed facts about pollutions, deforestation, loss of biodiversity ecological degradation and the list goes on. However, this problem has manifested into a global dabate, thus giving birth to implementation international environmental law, bilateral agreement, as well as conferences on environmental management. For example, in order…

Annotated Bibliography Topic: We live in a post-nature world but environmentalism is not dead. Arias-Maldonado, Manuel. "Rethinking Sustainability in the Anthropocene." Environmental Politics 22.3 (2013): 428-46. (Gabriella Monagan) In the article “Rethinking Sustainability in the Anthropocene,” political theorist Manuel Arias-Maldonado reframes the concept of sustainability and its socio-natural relationship to define a new form of environmentalism in the Anthropocene epoch. The rise of…

world and even elementary school classrooms. A great deal of these strategies rely on multidisciplinary approaches, for example, when Nisbet writes about higher education role in the Anthropocene, he discusses a number of ways that Humanities and Sciences can be combined to create immersive and cooperative degree programs. Programs such as these are already being implemented universities such as Oregon State and Kings College in London (Hart, Nisbet & Myers, 2015). These programs create dynamic…

approach to Neo-corporatism because the actors in play had changed; these represented the interests of rivalling political groups . This argument is illustrated by studying the case of the regional forests in Australia, where the state manages environmental problems, nevertheless the manner in which the government is constituted allows for there to be different assessments and solutions to particular cases. Australia was one of the first countries to…

Silent Springs Ms. Rachel Carson began a new movement. Rachel Carson brought to light the many dangers pesticides such as DDT have on the environment, animals, and humans. This environmental movement offered new insight about the harm pesticides have on all living organisms. In Silent Spring Rachel Carson starts an environmental movement by informing the public of the dangers of pesticides, which causes a shift in views towards pesticides and the harm they do to the environment. Rachel Carson…

Pope Francis is the 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis’s birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio and he was born in Flores, Bueno Aires, Argentina on December 17, 1936. His papal name is in honor of St. Francis of Assisi of Italy. Before becoming a pope Bergoglio got his degree in chemistry and a Ph.D. in theology. In 1958, Bergoglio entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. Bergoglio was also a teacher and he taught literature and psychology at Colegio del Salvatore and…