All right, enough of this hippy-dippy nonsense. It’s time to stop talking about how to solve the problems of environmental pollution, a phenomenon that, according to recent reports from the World Health Organization and the World Bank, is responsible for the death of one in five people around the world every year. That’s just not [...]
Auto exhaust pollution causes environmental damages. It’s something that we in America have known for some time: petroleum exhaust not only exhausts our precious and pricey supply of petroleum, but it also releases horrible greenhouse gases into the atmosphere–just one more nail in the coffin of the polar ice caps and of everything that makes [...]
What is environmental pollution? One thousand years ago, the question wouldn’t have even made sense. The very concept that human beings could be killing the planet by trying to make it easier for themselves to survive wouldn’t have made sense. But in our modern world, the question What is environmental pollution? not only makes sense, [...]
Sulphur dioxide and environmental pollution: environmentally-conscious groups around the world have long known these two to be a match made in heaven. But a lengthy study performed on environmental damage in the forests of Lapland have shown that the link between sulphur dioxide and environmental pollution may be even more serious than was previously assumed. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you’ve heard of Vunisinu, a tiny fishing village in Fiji, you’ve probably heard of it in passing. For most, the village is nothing more than a dot in the south eastern coastal mangrove swamps while flying in to SUV-Nausori International Airport. But for anyone interested in global environmental problems–pollution in all its forms being [...]
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 [...]
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