...How have Carson's view of nature influenced later environmental writers such as David suzuki (p.427) and Al Gore (454)? This question is on page 426 in Reading the world by Micheal Austin 2nd edition. Carson, a well known scientist and an aquatic biologist and zoologist, was a strong supporter of environment preservation and was strictly against the impact of technology and industrialization on nature. There are various chemicals which are produced in the market to fight the insects and pests and these chemicals not only impact the insects that are targeted however they also put equal adverse impact on human beings and other animals and plants who are unintentionally harmed. Carson’s main motive was to create a revolution through spreading awareness related to the use of chemicals and addition of manmade toxic chemicals for various uses, which ultimately leads to an adverse impact on the environment. There were two other similar supporters of nature in the nineteenth century, David Suzuki and Albert Gore were the ones who were born in British Columbia and Washington respectively, this paper analysis the influence of Carson on their work and the results of the influence. Like Carson, David Suzuki was also a very famous Zoologist in Canada and the fame that he had was due to the various T.V. shows that he had done in order to promote environment conservation. In his book the ‘Sacred Balance’, he has discussed various issues related to the maintenance of the eco-balance and there...
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...conference. There are press here. I’m glad to be in beautiful (mispronounced) Iqaluit, Nunavut Polar Bear: It is pronounced Iqaluit. Journalist: Prime Minister Harper, what is the government’s plan for global warming? Harper: We don’t feel that global warming is that important right now. Journalist: Isn’t the ice melting here in Nunavut? Harper: Environment Canada has noticed a slight warm trend over the past few years, but nothing to worry about here in (mispronounced) Nunavut. David Suzuki: That is not true!! Do you know what percentage of ice we’ve lost in the past couple of years? Harper: The Canadian Government does not believe that the ice has started to melt. Suzuki: Actually, the Arctic has lost over 40% of its ice since 1980 Harper: Well… those facts are still being debated… where are you from again, Mr. (mispronounced) Suzuki Suzuki: Canada Harper: No no... Where are you from from? Suzuki: I’m from Canada. Can you stop changing the subject! Why do you not want to talk about climate change? It’s almost as if you want the ice to melt. Harper: No! No! No! We don’t want the ice to melt, not that it’s melting. Journalist: Wait! You’re a Leafs fan... Are trying to melt the ice so that you don’t have to watch the Leafs lose again? BREAKING NEWS: Canadian Prime Minister Out to Destroy Hockey!! Polar Bear: After all this time I have supported you, you try to make me homeless. My family was right about you. (starts to walk away) Harper: Wait! We belong together! It’s...
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...on the Global Climate In considering environmental problems, including global climate change, it is important to understand how we contribute to the change in the global climate. Using the carbon calculator on The Inconvenient Truth Web site, my estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 14 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is below the U.S. national average. To reduce my climate impact, there are many simple things I can change in my everyday behavior that will make a big difference in the fight to slow climate change. For instance, I can install efficient lighting and windows in my 3 bedroom townhouse. In the calculator report, I changed the type of car I drive and my total emission of carbon is now 12 tons per year. Surprisingly, this minor adjustment makes a difference to my total. Takepart (2000) states that, “In 2006, An Inconvenient Truth woke up the world to the reality of the climate crisis, but the global leaders failed to act.” As individuals, we can “Take Action Now.” After reviewing this particular section of the Web site, I have identified three easy measures that I can adopt. These measures involve using my voice to talk about what is happening to the planet to shape public opinion, walking or biking instead of driving, and switching-out old light bulbs for LED. However, there are three more complex measures to reduce my CO2 emission, such as becoming a climate leader, getting involved with climate organizations...
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...Climate change is a by-product of a global economic system based on cheap fossil fuel energy that powers our homes, vehicles, offices and factories. Summaries of climate science and modeling, such as those undertaken by the International Panel on Climate Change tell us that a “business as usual” trajectory of rising greenhouse gas emissions (or even maintaining emissions at current levels) threatens the very survival of humans, not to mention other animals and plants. (Lee, Mark, and Kenneth I., 11) As the world is increasingly focusing on environmental awareness, a new “green” trend has arisen. This research essay will discuss the issue of sustainability of the environment in production, growing consumer interest in the green trend, and how it is affecting businesses. The effects of an altered climate are already evident in retreating glaciers, shrinking polar ice, droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events. As environmental awareness is becoming more common, and since production industries tend to think in terms of the long run (Wilson, Tim) there is a demand for a transformational shift towards sustainable systems of production and consumption, however many people confuse being green with being sustainable. To be green, substances from the earth's core must not be extracted faster than they're regenerated, pollutants must not be discharged into the atmosphere faster than the earth's systems can clean them, and surface level resources must not be destroyed or harvested...
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...Climate Scare Is all the hype about man made climate change going to destroy the human race. In The 11th Hour by Leonardo DiCaprio, we hear and see the perceived effects man-made climate change is having on our planet. Flooding, hurricanes, and drought, all caused by man’s use of fossil fuels, our only chance of survival, eliminate our use of fossil fuels. Bill McKibben agrees with this theory, in “350 Science” he informs us the current level of carbon dioxide (CO2), 392 parts per million, is much too high. His suggestion is that carbon sequestering is necessary to prevent our destruction. Patrick Moore reiterates this theory in “An Inconvenient Fact”. He contradicts DiCaprio’s belief of curtailing forestry and encourages improved forestry as a tool for carbon sequestering. While The 11th Hour suggests hurricanes, and flooding are caused by man, Scott Mandia tells us differently in “The Little Ice Age in Europe”. In it he describes conditions in Europe during ice age periods that mirror the conditions DiCaprio and others predict in The 11th Hour. We know that the CO2 levels are rising, but the dooms day predictions are false and misleading. All of their predictions have happened in recorded history, during times of colder temperatures and lower CO2 levels. Drought and horrible storms will occur no matter what level of CO2 is in the atmosphere or the average temperature is, we need to dedicate more resources to preparing for these disasters. Leonardo DiCaprio narrated...
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...Violating Global Warming Pacts? Canada in fact can and will be punished for Violating Global warming effects, if not by legal terms internationally, there will be consequences for their actions. Background Canada has violated the Global warming Pact called the “Kyoto Protocol”. “The view that human activities are likely responsible for most of the observed increase in global mean temperature ("global warming") since the mid-20th century is an accurate reflection of current scientific thinking. Human-induced warming of the climate is expected to continue throughout the 21st century and beyond.” The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty that places necessary responsibility on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The UNFCCC is an environmental treaty with the goal of preventing "dangerous" anthropogenic (i.e., human-induced) interference of the climate system. According to the UNFCC website, the Protocol "recognises that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, and places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of 'common but differentiated responsibilities'." There are 192 parties to the convention, including 191 states (all the UN members, except Andorra, Canada, South Sudan and the United States) and the European Union. The Protocol...
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...regional economies. With farmers entering contractual “partnerships” with large corporations, there are certain limits to what they can and cannot produce. The regional economy shrinks depending on what these companies dictate. While the farmers can opt not to purchase their seeds, it will be quite difficult to compete against the better growing conditions of the seeds endorsed by these agricultural corporations. In a way, the market is being subtly modified to suit corporations’ – and not consumers’ - demands. The industrialized food system also has an impact on the global state of the environment. How food is produced accounts for approximately 83% of that food item’s carbon footprint (David Suzuki Foundation, n.d).). For example, the meat industry is one of the largest contributors of climate change as industries are shifting to a corn-fed diet for livestock (Kenner, 2008). This practice takes significant amounts of energy and requires enormous patches of agricultural land to grow enough feed. Additionally, large densities of livestock release high concentrations of the greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide through animal waste (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2006). What can be done to lessen the impact of our consumption? On a smaller scale, eating locally is a lifestyle choice that can help reduce our carbon impact. It doesn’t mean completely giving up food that we cannot get within the area, since there are certainly some food items that are only available outside the...
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...But the Liberal government has yet to offer any new climate reduction targets besides what Stephen Harper has already pledged. It’s worth remembering that a prior Liberal government under [person] ratified the Kyoto Protocol, but did little to implement the binding reduction targets (the Harper government withdrew from Kyoto altogether in 2011). And in [month], Trudeau’s campaign co-chair Dan Gagnier [was forced to?] resign after it was made public that he was advising oil firms about how best to lobby a new Liberal government. Although we’ll have to wait and see—these are not reassuring first...
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...Resource Depletion and Peak Oil Peak oil and resource depletion are two very real issues that our world is facing. These issues are controversial topics and this report is going to critically analyse these concerns. Firstly, we will look at what the peak oil and climate change theories are and then discuss the on-going debate from opposing sides of the arguments for and against the peak oil theory. We will examine how these two issues are intertwined and identify the key consequences facing society. Then the current evidence that is proof of the early stages of both issues. The second part of this report will be based on a post peak oil paradigm and how the effects of peak oil, climate change and economic contraction will have on the direct investment in low density suburban property market. Firstly we will look at the concept of peak oil. The peak oil theory arose in 1956, when M. King Hubbert addressed the United States Oil Convention. His theory observed the production rates of individual oil reserves and how the production rate would increase at an exponential growth, reach a point and then decline rapidly, producing a bell shaped curve, now referred to as Hubbert’s curve. His prediction was that the United States oil reserves will reach its peak in 1970, and then decline rapidly as the demand increased and then become totally depleted. His theory was met with ridicule, however in the 1970’s the US reached its peak of 10 million barrels per day, and has been in decline...
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...What is climate change? The Earth's climate has changed over the last century. Increases in average temperatures have been seen around the globe and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed in the last 50 years is due to human activities. While climate change is a global issue, it will affect us all. Climate change has the potential to adversely affect our environment, our communities and our economy unless we take action now to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for the impacts. Climate change will alter global and local climates. In Victoria, this means a warmer and drier future, with an increasing likelihood of more extreme events such as heatwaves, bushfires and storm surges. Climate change is the greatest threat facing our planet today. A warming planet alters weather patterns, water supplies, seasonal growth for plants and a sustainable way of life for us and the world’s wildlife. Climate change has already started, but it’s not too late to take action. There’s still time for us all to be part of the solution. A continuous flow of energy from the sun heats the Earth. Naturally occurring gases in the atmosphere, known as greenhouse gases – this includes carbon dioxide (CO2) - , trap this heat like a blanket, keeping the Earth at an average of 15 degrees Celsius – warm enough to sustain life. The overuse of fossil fuels is increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, trapping more and more heat and warming the Earth. As a result, we’re...
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...Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy Helene P. Foley Barnard College, Columbia University “Leave it to a playwright who has been dead for 2,400 years to jolt Broadway out of its dramatic doldrums” begins a recent New York Times review (December 4, 1998) of a British Electra by Sophocles starring Zoe Wanamaker and Claire Bloom. This fall the Times has repeatedly remarked on the “deluge” of Greek tragedy in the 1998-99 theater season: the National Theater of Greece’s Medea, Joanne Akalaitis’ The Iphigeneia Cycle (a double bill that combines Euripides’ two Iphigeneia plays), a revival of Andrei Serban’s famous Fragments of a Greek Trilogy, and a four-and-a-half-hour adaptation of the Oedipus Rex were announced at the start of the season. Off-off Broadway versions will inevitably follow. The Brooklyn Academy of Music even hosted a dance/theatre piece based on the Eleusinian Mysteries. 1 The Classic Stage Company, an off-Broadway theater group devoted to performance and adaptation of Western classics, currently receives more scripts that re-work Greek tragedy than any other category of drama. 2 From a global perspective, New York is simply reflecting a trend set by important modern playwrights and directors worldwide. Greek drama now occupies a regular place in the London theater season. In the past twenty years, acclaimed productions have been mounted not only in Europe but also in Japan, India, and Africa. Translations are even beginning to proliferate in China, occasionally...
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...regional economies. With farmers entering contractual “partnerships” with large corporations, there are certain limits to what they can and cannot produce. The regional economy shrinks depending on what these companies dictate. While the farmers can opt not to purchase their seeds, it will be quite difficult to compete against the better growing conditions of the seeds endorsed by these agricultural corporations. In a way, the market is being subtly modified to suit corporations’ – and not consumers’ - demands. The industrialized food system also has an impact on the global state of the environment. How food is produced accounts for approximately 83% of that food item’s carbon footprint (David Suzuki Foundation, n.d).). For example, the meat industry is one of the largest contributors of climate change as industries are shifting to a corn-fed diet for livestock (Kenner, 2008). This practice takes significant amounts of energy and requires enormous patches of agricultural land to grow enough feed. Additionally, large densities of livestock release high concentrations of the greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide through animal waste (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2006). What can be done to lessen the impact of our consumption? On a smaller scale, eating locally is a lifestyle choice that can help reduce our carbon impact. It doesn’t mean completely giving up food that we cannot get within the area, since there are certainly some food items that is only available outside the...
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...ETHIOPIA? DR. DEEPAK KAPUR & ABEBAW KASSIE GUALU NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN BUSINESS EDUCATION KRISHNA PRIYA & DR. K. S. CHANDRASEKAR CREDIT MANAGEMENT OF INDIAN COMMERCIAL VEHICLE INDUSTRY N. VELMATHI & DR. R. GANESAN EVALUATION OF PASSENGER SATISFACTION AND SERVICE QUALITY IN INDIAN RAILWAYS - A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH CENTRAL RAILWAY USING RAILQUAL M. DEVI PRASAD & DR. B. RAJA SHEKHAR A STUDY OF TERTIARY EDUCATION AND SHIFTS IN GLOBALLY MOBILE STUDENTS DR. Y. V. REDDY & D. M. DESHPANDE DIMENSION OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF CEMENT UNITS IN SOUTH INDIA - AN EMPHIRICAL STUDY (Z SCORE ANALYSIS) DR. R. SRINIVASAN & C. U. TIRIPURA SUNDARI AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL LEVERAGE, EARNINGS AND DIVIDEND: A CASE STUDY OF MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LTD. DR. SANJAY J. BHAYANI & DR. BUTALAL AJMERA SERVICES MARKETING DYNAMICS – AN EXAMINATION OF SPORTS SPONSORSHIP...
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...ETHIOPIA? DR. DEEPAK KAPUR & ABEBAW KASSIE GUALU NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN BUSINESS EDUCATION KRISHNA PRIYA & DR. K. S. CHANDRASEKAR CREDIT MANAGEMENT OF INDIAN COMMERCIAL VEHICLE INDUSTRY N. VELMATHI & DR. R. GANESAN EVALUATION OF PASSENGER SATISFACTION AND SERVICE QUALITY IN INDIAN RAILWAYS - A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH CENTRAL RAILWAY USING RAILQUAL M. DEVI PRASAD & DR. B. RAJA SHEKHAR A STUDY OF TERTIARY EDUCATION AND SHIFTS IN GLOBALLY MOBILE STUDENTS DR. Y. V. REDDY & D. M. DESHPANDE DIMENSION OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF CEMENT UNITS IN SOUTH INDIA - AN EMPHIRICAL STUDY (Z SCORE ANALYSIS) DR. R. SRINIVASAN & C. U. TIRIPURA SUNDARI AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL LEVERAGE, EARNINGS AND DIVIDEND: A CASE STUDY OF MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LTD. DR. SANJAY J. BHAYANI & DR. BUTALAL AJMERA SERVICES MARKETING DYNAMICS – AN EXAMINATION OF SPORTS SPONSORSHIP...
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...Story Of Stuff, Referenced and Annotated Script By Annie Leonard Do you have one of these? I got a little obsessed with mine, in fact I got a little obsessed with all my stuff. Have you ever wondered where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out.? I couldn’t stop wondering about that. So I looked it up. And what the text books said is that our stuff simply moves along these stages: extraction to production to distribution to consumption to disposal. All together, it’s called the materials economy. Well, I looked into it a little bit more. In fact, I spent 10 years traveling the world tracking where our stuff comes from and where it goes.1 And you know what I found out? That is not the whole story. There’s a lot missing from this explanation. For one thing, this system looks like it’s fine. No problem. But the truth is it’s a system in crisis. And the reason it is in crisis is that it is a linear system and we live on a finite planet and you can not run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.2 Every step along the way, this system is interacting with the real world. In real life it’s not happening on a blank white page. It’s interacting with societies, cultures, economies, the environment. And all along the way, it’s bumping up against limits. Limits we don’t see here because the diagram is incomplete. So let’s go back through, let’s fill in some of the blanks and see what’s missing. Well, one of the most important things that is missing...
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