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    Climate Change The issues of climate change and global warming have began increasing at an exceptionally alarming rate. Many people believe that this has become a major problem in today’s world, but nothing is being done to stop it. Industrial companies have been led to believe that climate change does not exist and is not a threat rather than change their ways to accommodate our planet. Other countries believe that the climate change is not within our control. The disregard for how our…

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    1. Introduction Climate change is a crucial issue of our era (Annan, 2007) and is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on resource limited countries such as Cameroon. In particular, small-scale farmers depending on available natural resources as well as on traditional farm practices are more affected. Like elsewhere, local farmers' perceptions of climate change and their strategies to mitigate its impacts are based on indigenous knowledge and their own…

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    desolate and abandoned. If Earth keeps heading in the direction it is going, soon enough it will be deprived of all that is good in it. The planet is very slowly headed towards its demise due to global warming. Because of the damage done from greenhouse gas emissions on the planet, the government needs to create regulations to stop more contributions to global warming. With discussions of the history of this problem, opposing thoughts on the issue, and views that support the thesis, the reader…

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    myself. Evidently, it is a pretty hot topic all over the world. The sides of the issue are whether global warming is real or not. According to NASA, “global warming describes the average global surface temperature increase from human emissions of greenhouse gases” (NASA). The debate of whether it is real or not has recently played a part in the Presidential election of 2016. According to the two presidential candidates’ websites, one does not address the issue and the other calls it a threat to…

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    According to United Nations Environment Programme, there is approximately 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in every square mile of the ocean! I strongly think that plastic bags should be banned in the whole entire United States. Not only would it encourage people to use reusable bags, it will save many animals, and will prevent toxins from entering into the air. First of all, with a ban on plastic bags, it will encourage people to use reusable bags. Reusable bags have a benefit on not only…

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    changing climate” (Fox News, 2014). This shows that climate change is a real thing and people did not just come up with it. Global warming is the increase of the overall temperatures of the earth’s atmosphere. It is mainly caused by the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the trapping of the sun’s heat in the earth atmosphere due to different gases like water vapor or carbon dioxide. This process is causing permanent warming of the planet. Some people believe that global warming has only…

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    How mankind is razing the beauty of nature down with its action! What has become the world we have been living on for thousands of years? It started with dinosaurs and a meteor end it. Then a new beginning raise, mankind was born. The right terminology to define humans is that they come from the ape’s branch but what set them apart is their complex brain which function as a gun with unlimited power to imagination and creation. They have abuse that power thru so many decades that nowadays is…

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    Carbon Emission Essay

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    17.62 metric tons of carbon dioxide per person. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that carbon dioxide emissions are causing the gradual heating and change of the Earth’s climate since it is a greenhouse gases that locks in the thermal energy from the sun. the heat caused by the gas itself is not an issue since humans are a highly adaptive species, but there are other effects of the heat that would greatly alter the planet in such…

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    Conflict can be defined as the disagreement between two different states or actors who have dissimilar interests. Historically, states have fought each other to fight over territories, lootable and natural resources, different ideologies, technologies, and, economic and social issues. However, states had come together and solved these problems through cooperating with each other over the years. For example, nations resolved the problem of territories and borders through wars, and they eventually…

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    Waste Of Food In America

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    the natural resources that humanity relies upon to feed itself.3 Wasting food also is affecting the environment because 25% of the waste goes to the earth’s surface, 70% goes to water consumption, 80% of waste to deforestation, and 30% of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate changes.4 That´s a lot because 70% goes into the water and in order to get only one liter of milk, the cow has to drink 1,000 liters of water. Wasting food is not only bad for the environment but it is…

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