Genetic pollution

I always thought that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, commonly known as Garbage Island, was a huge, waterborne landfill—sort of like a massive hair clog in a big drain, spinning round and round. In reality, it's not so much an island of trash as a soupy area of litter, mostly in the form of tiny flecks of plastic, studded here and there with old fishing gear and children's toys. If you were to sail right through the Patch, the water itself probably wouldn't look too remarkable, unless you…

“The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics”, Paul Watson. Whaling has been around for thousands of years, starting with the Norwegians almost 4,000 years ago. Since then, it has become custom for countries to hunt vast amounts of these animals every year, resulting in many species of whale becoming endangered and a significant issue worldwide. Many organizations and countries have chosen to act upon this problem with bans and conservation strategies, but some…

A perfectly imperfect world The picture below is of an urban residential suburb. I’d like to start off by asking you how you feel or what you think when you drive through the tree-lined streets of areas like Westville, Umhlanga or Musgrave, with its large homes and precipitous driveways? Cliff notes version of my thoughts: • Sense of hope and potential • Encourages one to dream for the future • Wouldn’t be tempted to litter because the community is so clean • Gives the impression that the people…

Sectarianism is a major problem Lebanon has been suffering since a while now. The civil war and the explosions that are still happening till today are just a minor effect of this dilemma. People think that frequent blackouts, water shortage, explosions, and garbage are the vital problems endangering our lives; and they are in their own way, but as a matter of fact they are only insignificant issues in comparison with Sectarianism. Rebecca Solnit (2010) said in her story “A Paradise Built in…

Floods could be very catastrophic as they are known to destroy property and cause deaths. When such catastrophic things happen, people from all over the world extend their generosity to the victims. Some people may take advantage of the situation to loot or take part in price gouging. The writer uses facts, emotional appeal and logical fallacies to support his argument. He uses vivid examples to sway his readers to the winning side of his argument. When volunteers stumble across information…

Complete the following written assignment of “Shanzhai (“Bandit”) Mobile Phone Companies” 1. What are the environmental factors that help drive the Shanzhai phenomenon? There were indeed many environmental factors that made the Shanzhai phenomenon; for instance, political, technological, social, economic, environmental, and last but not least legal factors. The primary effects of the government intervention in an effort to create a barrier of entry to foreign companies while encouraging…

he Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a crucible as, “a vessel of a very refractory material used for melting and calcining a substance that requires a high degree of heat.” Other interpretations of the word mean, “a severe test,” and “a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development.” The Crucible by Arthur Miller and today’s society are very much like the inside of a crucible because they have social pressures, private pressures, and…

The Three Main Ingredients of Public Tragedy Jakarta, a special capital city of Indonesia in which complicating problems has always been a usual thing for the government and the locals. Traffic, flood and pollution has always been the number one problem for roughly 11 years in this city, causing the economy to slow down due to the hard road accessibility, and even souls. A lot of solution has been suggested in which some of them are currently being implemented to put this city away from the…

The main advantages of the NEMI symbol assessment method are the simplicity of the assessment and reading the score, one fast look at the pictogram will be enough to have a general information about the environmental impact of a procedure. However, the drawbacks of this method are non-consideration of the amount of chemicals used in the analysis and the waste generated (qualitative rather than quantitative analysis) and the obtained information is general. In addition, the search of each…

Mental health is affected by more than the ill person's brain. There are many environmental factors that can affects their mental illness. One of the most influential environmental factors is in the form of social interactions with peers and family. Often times things like support groups can help those with mental illnesses Throughout both the novel and the movie, we see the protagonists' mental illnesses helped or hindered by their interactions with other people. When the male protagonists are…