The American Crisis

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They repeatedly found unsafe lead levels in the drinking water. They discovered that if Flint had been using an anticorrosion agent like orthophosphate minerals to coat city pipes, the lead crisis may have been averted. (Watch a Scientific American video about Flint's lead pipe corrosion.) Furthermore, Edwards’s team uncovered the widespread use of lead testing practices that deviated from EPA protocol—Flint residents were encouraged to “pre-flush” the pipes before…

1) By a “commons”, Hardin refers to a shared resource, such as public land, National Parks, and the seas. One of Hardin’s most prominent example refers to herdsmen on commonly-shared land. Each herdsman will attempt to raise as much cattle as possible, Hardin argues, on the land. However, the land can only sustain a certain number of cattle. The tragedy occurs when each herdsman continues to add more and more cattle, in order to maximize their profit, without thinking about the negative…

rather small city of about 99,000 people, with a majority (56.6%) of the population being African American and about 41.6% of residents living below the poverty line. Once the home of the United States’ largest General Motors plant, Flint’s economy suffered a major blow when General Motors downsized during the 1980s. A low budget, contaminated water source, and outdated infrastructure have led to a water crisis in Flint, Michigan which is a danger to local residents in regards to public concerns…

Conflict over Dams: Connections Between ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ and DamNation Ben Knight’s DamNation depicts a conflict between Earth First! activists, hydroelectricity companies, Native Americans (particularly the Elwha tribe), and the federal government. The conflict is over several finite resources such as the salmon population, hydroelectric power, and ecosystem health. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the conflict represented in the film is a clear example of the…

South Carolinians were against the Tariff of 1828 due to the fact that it increased the price of imports tremendously. South Carolina was already suffering from agricultural depression caused by low cotton prices and exhausted farmlands, and the tariff further worsened the situation. The state leaders claimed that the tariff was clearly favoring the northern manufacturers because South Carolina would either have to pay the higher price for imported items or they would have to buy the goods from…

biodiversity issues will slightly improve until these challenges are totally eradicated. For future research in this area I propose a Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) in all areas mentioned as well as a case study about the effects of loss of biodiversity in American native…

finally resorted to mandatory rainwater collection on both commercial and residential plots larger than 2,400 square feet”. This mandate forced homeowners to recycle rainwater versus using city water for their lawns and gardens. Hamilton hits home with American readers when she tells of the average 147 gallons per day per person in the United States. Albuquerque, New Mexico “has instituted another set of rebates, including $200 off the price of low-flow toilets, $75 for water urinals, and $100…

especially in the shared cause in WW1, it wasn’t until 1944 that the term ‘special relationship’ was used to describe Anglo-American relations. Winston Churchill said in 1944 that “unless Britain and the United States are joined in a special relationship, another destructive war will come to pass” , this was the foundation of the term ‘special relationship’. After the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, despite a frosty start in diplomatic relations, the common ground shared by the USA…

example of why we should take the matters of the drought into our own hands. Even with such great technology that we possess today, the weather is still unpredictable and cannot be relied upon as a solution for such a great threat. A threat that Americans…