There are many reasons why plastic containers largely replaced glass in the 1970s. The petroleum crisis made the price of transport an issue and glass is expensive. It can’t be squeezed, and it breaks when kids drop it. There seemed nothing wrong with plastics in the mid-20th century. Even being made of oil, they actually [...]
Environmental Pollution
People have been using trucks to move goods around North America since there have been trucks. However, the use of trucks to haul goods and food across long distances of the continent is a relatively recent phenomena. The rise of tricking was largely fueled by the implementation of the he Dwight D. Eisenhower National System [...]
“Environmental pollution–it’s not my problem.” Is this something you’ve heard? Is this something you’ve said? Is this something you believe? If it is, consider opening your eyes and ears, because evidence from the World Health Organization and the World Bank strongly indicates that environmental pollution is everybody’s problem. According to these organizations’ estimates, some 20% [...]
Animal species go extinct every day. There are thousands of bird species parakeets and seabirds that vanish before scientists or birdwatchers ever get a chance to study them, beyond a flap of wings or a blur of colourful feathers passing through a window. Insect populations, with their high birth rate and ever-changing environmental, spawn whole [...]
You’ve no doubt heard a great deal about environmental pollution–but what do you really know about its causes, its effects, and what you can do about both of them? In this series of five essay questions, we’ll find out. So get your pencils and paper ready, and let’s get started, right now, with changing the [...]
If we knew how to stop environmental pollution, we’d be a happier culture today. But it’s harder to know how to stop environmental pollution than it might seem. The environment–as environmentalists continue to assure is–is something that affects all of us, yet that all of us affect. We may stop using CFC products, yes, and [...]
Industrial pollution & environmental degradation are widely, and rightly, considered one of the largest problems facing our late-capitalist society. The continued effects of industrial pollution & environmental degradation make our factories less efficient (believe it or not), poison our groundwater, poison our air, use up natural resources and generally make the world filthier, deadlier, and [...]
Leadville, Colorado is one of the jewels of American city-building. If Denver is the mile-high city, Leadville is the Two-Mile High City, rising 10,152 feet above sea level–the highest city elevation in the United States. A product of the gold and silver rushes of the late nineteenth century, Leadville was famous for its quick mineral [...]
Fertilizer: common sense would indicate that it’s the last thing anyone has to worry about when considering how to farm effectively in order to avoid environmental pollution. Fertilizer is designed to grow plants, after all, to grow them more quickly, healthily, and effectively: and arent plants what all of these environmentalist types are clamoring for [...]
