Nonpoint source pollution

Earth is the number one provider for all life. It provides many resources that are essential and luxurious for life. Due to the large humans have, they are the number one species that use the resources that the earth provides. However, it is very devastating to know that many people are living unsustainably and wasting many natural resources and destroying the vital thing that keeps them alive… Mother Earth. This piece of satire criticizes the unsustainable usage of resources and a few other…

problem is pollution, and it is getting worse every day. One of the many pollution problems on Mt. Everest is the haphazard disposal of glass bottles that contained beer, alcohol, and various soft drinks. Up until a few years ago, these glass bottles have been a hassle to trekkers and the native village people. “Shards of glass threaten the feet of village children as…

To frack or not to frack? This is a question, common amongst humanity today. Fracking is the process of drilling deep into the ground to extract natural gas from the shale down below. To extract the natural gas humongous amounts of toxic fluid, loaded with silica sand and chemicals, are pumped into the ground. This fluid is not always pumped back out of the ground and seeps into surrounding groundwater. North America should stop the use of fracking because it can cause earthquakes, puts the…

would be best to take precaution and get all possible training before hand to be on the safe side of it all to prevent all trageties. There are websites put up to seek training for Spelunking as such as "https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjcg7mXwsjWAhVClVQKHcYEDwcQFgg1MAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaves.org%2Fsafety%2Fsafety.shtml&usg=AFQjCNGVDiztvbSuIz89vkvcqSiqQ3b_Yg". The website has…

Paper towels Many people love to use paper towels to dry their hands or clean a mess up. They use a lot of them too which they honestly don’t need that many paper towels. What they are doing is wasting the paper towels and the trees that they use. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper towels, and by doing that 20,000 gallons of water are polluted. In the U.S. we use over 13 billion pounds of paper towels per year and it keeps getting higher as the years go on. There is about 3,000 tons…

The documentary “Addicted to Plastic” was truly an eye opener for me. It was amazing to learn of the numbers in tons that as a nation that we throughout, not only in our nation but worldwide. Not to mention the damage that we are doing to our environment and the harm to wildlife that the discarded plastics are doing. Most people will throw out a plastic bottle without even thinking about where it will end up or the troubles that it could create. I know I am guilty, but I do recycle. Surprisingly…

There exists a pattern of historically disenfranchised groups in the United States, such as minorities and low-income communities, being exposed to a disproportionate level of environmental hazards such as toxic waste, pollution and urban decay. This relationship between social and environmental aspects has been termed environmental racism, and beginning in the mid to late 20th century the Environmental Justice Movement grew to combat the politically normalized existence of environmental racism…

by extreme weather events, but by deadly and avoidable patterns of political-economic choices.” (p. 1). Freudenburg determines with such “floods of folly” that these similar paradigms deserve more consideration in different perspectives. Full of sources, in this…

of the mid-19th century introduced new sources of air. By the middle of the 20th century, the effects of these changes were beginning to be revealed in many countries around the world. In the 1960s, an environmental movement began to emerge that sought to remove the flow of pollutants to the planet’s ecosystems. Out of this movement came events like Earth Day, and legislative victories like 1960’s Clean Air Act. In 1963, in an effort to reduce air pollution, the U.S. Congress passed the Clean…

Bob Englehart created an image with an interesting mood which shows some men lowering chewing gum into the ocean. This artist has other images that reflect the same point of view. He is passionate about the subject of water pollution and expresses that in his work. It also shows and oil spill running through the body of water, which is the focus of the artwork. The cartoonist’s stance on this image is how people keep littering into the ocean. Over the years, more and more waste…