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Michael Pollan's essay “Why Bother” argues that each individual should contribute in making insignificant life changes in order to improve the conditions of climate change. Although without co-operation and scientific certainty, it wouldn't be possible to make the required level of change. During this essay, Pollan addresses that it would not greatly impact human life making small changes to support the environment. Instead, the difficulty is realizing it will only take small changes from…

During the lecture by Silver Donald Cameron, I was introduced to the problem our society faces with power and entitlement. This issue was not obvious to me at first but once I listened to the educational lecture on society and our environment it was clear to me that power overrules our health and our environment. Power is defined as “legal ability, capacity, or authority” (Dictionary . com), the key word in this definition being authority which is what effects our society and our environment so…

problem, nor is there much pressure from human populations. The biggest threats come from airborne pollutants, which have brought measurable levels of pollutants such as DDT and PCB's to even remote areas. The biggest threat, however, is from oil and gas development and the resulting global warming. With global temperatures on the rise the tundra will undergo some major changes that end up acting as positive feedback on the global warming…

Is Fracking Good or Bad “Approximately one million American wells have been fracked since the 1940s”(Brantley and Meyendorff). Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is the process of drilling into the earth and and extracting oil and gas from shale rock. There are many instances of fracking contaminating the water and hurting the environment and even after people see that, there is a big group that doesn’t care and don’t think that they are causing a problem. People and companies should…

Unit 3 Essay In a perfect world climate change, wouldn’t be a problem, people wouldn’t go hungry, you don’t have to choose to get skittles or sour patch your mom would buy you both and many other things. And say in this perfect world we found a solution. The solution was to make humans autotrophic reducing our carbon foot print then maybe even reversing global warming. But even if this were to happen other problems would arise such as people having to change their lifestyles, tons more of water…

The three-spined stickleback fish is a well known fish to Alaskans it has two pointy spikes on its back and it is a yellowish brown color. It is located in the Pacific Ocean and some salt water lakes near Alaska. The first recorded spotting of the stickleback was in 1964. The rates of fish being caught near Alaska have been recorded for many years and the rate of stickleback caught in the 1990's is double what is being caught now. Mating occurs in early spring and summer for these fish…

An act of social change should reflect the public’s overall appeal to the idea in order for it to be effective. Throughout these seven sources, the positions vary on the benefits, the flaws, and the uncertainty with being a locavore, an individual who decides to eat products that are locally grown or produced. Although the distance for transportation has little effect on the carbon dioxide emission from the food, the locavore movement works on the key issues of health and diversity; however,…

he authors of “The Last Wilderness Preserve” and “ A New Land of Opportunity” present different arguments about the impact human behavior has on Antarctica. Based on critical evidence the author of the ‘’The Last Wilderness Preserve”, Kendra Washington, had the strongest argument. Kendra Washington’s argument is about how she strongly believes that humans should not exploit the natural resources and the beautiful land of Antarctica because this can cause damage or “ threaten the natural…

environmental consequences of food waste. Such environmental consequences are amplified by the fact that the food taken to landfills rots into methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas with a “high global warming potential.” (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) The massive piles of food waste are one of the leading sources of man-made methane gas production. As Jared Diamond points out in his work “The World as Polder: What Does It Mean To Us Today,” we, as humans, are “the cause of our…

The delicate ecosystem is crumbling faster than many people realize and those who do choose to ignore the facts. Three time Pulitzer prize winner and New York Times columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, vocalizes the importance of persevering nature and the diversity of creatures, in his article, “We Are All Noah Now”. Friedman’s purpose is to prompt his audience to take action in their lives against the destruction of this beautiful earth. The majority of people want to leave “saving the planet” to…