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Chapter 2 A review about VW Diesel affair 2.1 Outline The diesel gate emission scandal came into picture in 18 September 2015 when (EPA) Environmental Protection Agency of US found that VW Group had manufactured diesel cars by installing a fraud software known as “defeat device” to cheat emission tests. By the violation of the Clean Air Act this software manipulates the NOX emission rating in order to meet US Tier 2 standards during the laboratory testing, but emit nearly 40 times more NOX…

Over the course of history, three important ecological myths have taken root and influenced the way we look at human-environment relationships and environmental problems. The only way to truly understand the past regarding human impact on the environment is to analyze and evaluate these myths critically to understand where they came from and why they came to be. The first of these myths suggests that the humans of the past had a more harmonious relationship with the environment than the current…

connected by vast roads; everything in suburbia is isolated due to single-use zoning. In the early 1900s, the City Beautiful Movement was endogenous to the best and worst of America’s planners as they were praised for increased life expectancies as harsh smog-producing factories had been separated from residential areas. Yet, the design of partitioning everything began to be applied to all types of land uses when it is superfluous to do so. The issue of modern suburbia is an issue of…

Look ahead to a world where the rainforests have been devastated. As a shadow of its former self, deforestation has reduced the Amazon to a third of its current size. Over forty-percent of the species once native to the region have gone extinct. Undiscovered plants, with the potential to yield new medicines and cures, are no longer in existence. Thousands of new animal and insect species, unknown to the outside world, have all died off. Look ahead to a world where finding clean water is rare. A…

by-products of fossil fuel combustion risk destroying ecosystems and the ozone. The United Kingdom Department for Transport (n.d.) explains that nitrous oxide, released from the incomplete combustion of petrol, builds up in the atmosphere, resulting in toxic smog, and acid rain, which are very dangerous for the environment, specifically the acid rain ruins fragile ecosystems and damages vegetation around the world (para. 4). Moreover, additional environmental consequences have been identified,…

The American automobile industry has quite a history. From the sale of the first Ford Model A on July 23rd, 1903 (Ford Motor Company, n.d), to the first Corvette rolling off the assembly line June 30th, 1953 ( HYPERLINK "http://corvettestory.com/1953-Corvette-C1-First-Year-Modest-Beginnings.php" http://corvettestory.com/1953-Corvette-C1-First-Year-Modest-Beginnings.php, n.d.), to the automobile crisis and bailout from 2008 to 2010, and to many other historic achievements and crisis’ throughout…

An example of a decision that did not bring expected benefits to an organization. Some organizations hold the notion that their decisions, even though it is against popular opinion, and taking in secret would never come to the public. However, in the world of advanced technology, nothing is secret anymore. If organizations involved their employees in the decision-making process, that will often lead to strategic decisions that precipitate maximum benefits to organizations. However, when the…

In this didactic piece Canadian Medicare: We Need It and We Can Keep It by Duckett and Peetoom, the authors delved into aspects of Canadian medicare that need to be refurbished to ensure the system remains sustainable. The book describes medicare in the past and how healthcare around it has changed, inevitably meaning medicare needs changes as well. The main goal the authors depict for medicare is the idea that “the right person enables the right care in the right setting, on time, every time”…

The US, in many countries in known as America but we call it the United States and just like that India, whose official name is Bharat, but Indians still call their motherland Bharat. India and America, may not have so many similarities between each other, but they do have a couple that are noticeably big. Although both countries have few similarities, they have many differences which happens to be the main cause why both countries are very different. The biggest similarity between the two…

There are many convieneces to solar power, but of course nothing is perfect. It is more convienet for the consumer because they will not have to purchase things to run their house or car, they could just have the solar pannels themselves and be independent. The one and major inconveience of solar power is what do you do on a cloudy day? Or if one place does not get a lot of sun how can it run? Advantages: Solar energy is a renewable resource that is environmentally friendly. Unlike fossil…