...Not to Drill In the United States fossil fuels, coil, natural gas and oil provide more than almost 80% of all the energy held in America, almost two-thirds of our electricity, and worldwide all of our transportation fuels. It’s common that the United States dependence of fossil fuels to power a growing economy will increase over at least the next two decades even with powerful development and deployment of updated renewable and nuclear technologies. The fact is, alternative energy and renewable energy should be a major investment for everyone. Energy conservation itself could lead to increased environmental quality, financial capital, national security, comfort, and personal security. I have fallen on many issues I do not believe that my position on off shore drilling is an issue of stereotyping. I have reassured my stance by reading and researching this position. My community is against drilling for natural gas in our state at this point in time. Developing our energy resources cannot ‘come at the expense of our environmental resources such as our land, water, and our ecosystem. Drilling has a very strong impact on the environment and is not good for our community it jeopardizes the clean water we have. The fact is alternative energy and renewable energy should be a major investment for everyone. Drilling the earth for fossil fuel is one of the worst things people could do to the earth. My perceptual blocks are that oil companies only have one thought and that thought...
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...Earth 1200 One of the biggest problems facing the world today is global warming, as many scientists believe that our production of carbon dioxide along with other greenhouse gases are having a heating effect on the atmosphere. This essay will examine the problems of global warming and the dangerous affects that it has for human life along with explaining or possible future. In the documentary Earth 2100, you follow along with Lucy an animated character who describes her life during the global warming timeline that scientists believe will be the sixth extinction. She explains key problems that could happen and will affect our future if we don’t change. The first is a raise in temperature; due to the emitted gases by power plants, automobiles, deforestation and other sources that are warming the planet up. Living on the assumption that oil will be plentiful forever and increase in gas prices leaves people moving out of suburbs and into cities to save money. With a shock to the economy with rising food prices as a result people will be forcing the government to take the easy way out by making no change. Creating more coal based plants we affect the planet by warming it up faster than looking for better environmental options. Another Lucy states will be change in landscape because rising temperatures and pattern changes of weather, as some wildlife will be forced to move where it’s colder leaving others without any viable habitat putting our wildlife at risk. However, this...
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...systems. Walter, and Schönwiese state that “an anthropogenic induced climate change is already observable in climatic variables, e.g. near-surface air temperature” (Walter, A., & Schönwiese, C. D, 2003). Maxwell tells us that “eminent climate scientists have come to consensus that human influences are significant contributors to modern global climate change” (Maxwell, 2008). Some of the fundamentals of this anthropogenic climate change come from high levels of Carbon Dioxide or CO2 which is mainly generated from humans using fossil fuels as an energy source. An argument that could be used to support these statements could go as follows: Anthropogenic climate change is a problem. (premise) Climate and near surface temperatures are rising. (premise) Increased Carbon Dioxide levels influence anthropogenic climate change. (premise) Humans are the primary contributors of increased Carbon Dioxide levels. (premise) Conclusion: Through human’s...
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...Earth’s temperature and we are experiencing what is referred to as global warming. The Earth has experienced this many times in history on a much larger scale, but, humans did not exist (and would not have been able to exist) at the time. The questions now are whether human actions are accelerating the process of global warming and possibly decreasing Earth’s future sustainability; and, if so, what, if anything, can we do to ensure that Earth will have the ability to sustain life for many many many future generations to come. Human activity has been linked to Earth's warming temperatures, rising seas, more intense storms, and a host of other environmental woes, because increases in greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation trap heat that would otherwise escape from Earth which results in global warming; however, global warming may just be caused by natural occurrences, such as cosmic rays, the sun, volcanic activity and the ocean. The combustion of fossil fuels input enormous emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere causing the atmospheric CO2 levels to rise radically. The academic textbook, Contemporary Environmental Issues states, “CO2 is the principal gas contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect…three main greenhouse gases, CO2, CH4, and N2O, are rising because of human activities such as the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas” (Turk & Bensel, 2011). Levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have increased substantially...
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...Geopolitical analysis of Gazprom INTRODUCTION Open Joint Stock Company Gazprom is the largest extractor of natural gas and one of the largest companies in the world. Gazprom was created in 1989 when the Ministry of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union transformed itself into a corporation, keeping all its assets intact. The company was later privatized in part, but currently the Russian government holds most of the control in its hands. The major parts of Gazprom’s production fields are located around the Gulf of Ob in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Western Siberia, while the Yamal Peninsula is expected to become the company's main gas producing region in the future. Gazprom possesses the largest gas transport system in the world, with 158,200 kilometres of gas trunk lines. Major new pipeline projects include Nord Stream and South Stream. In this report, we are going to analyze the International environmental of Gazprom by using SWOT analysis. We will detail the relationship between Gazprom and other neighboring countries; such as Ukraine. We will figure out what’s the benefit for Gazprom based on the International environmental and what will be harmful the Gazprom if there are some disputes. The main reason we chose Gazprom as our research target is, as we mentioned before, that Gazprom is a company which is currently controlled by Russian government. Most of decisions that Gazprom took are showing the attitude of Russian government. As we know, Russia is the biggest...
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...Xianxian Xu Professor Heffernan ENG1060-032 April 22, 2014 No More Consumption of Coal After the industrial revolution, energy is urgently needed for both daily life and industries. For hundreds of years, human beings have relied on the consumption of energy. People not only cannot live without them but also have to increase the amount for their better living methods and better life quality. Problems come along with increasing energy, especially when the major part of the energy comes from burning coal. Pollution caused by excess burning of coal and trade problems caused by coal prices and coal reserves are so apparent that need to be addressed. However, the advantages of burning coal for energies are so clear for its cheaper price compared to other energies. The balance between benefit and cost is hard to maintain. The choice between continuing current coal consumption and a healthy future is hard to make. For a sustainable society and to improve the quality of the environment and reform the economy, the global consumption of coal needs to be restricted. The balance between economy and environment is hard to maintain. Burning coal for energy has lots of advantages and disadvantages. There are two opposite opinions towards dealing with excess consumption of coal. According to objective global circumstance, it is impossible to ban coal directly. So a debate about whether to restrict coal makes more sense here. The consumption of coal is a fact and there must be a substitute...
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...OUTLINE I. Introduction Thesis statement: However, today we can see very huge environmental changes all over the world as a result of human activities such as using nature resources that will convert into poison gases and damage the nature resulting with huge climate changes, air and water pollutions with rising number of deaths. II. Background A. Causes: 1. Low security systems 2. Growing human greed 3. Ineffective and messy government control B. Effects: 1. Increasing number of deaths and different diseases 2. Global warming 3. Different pollutions III. Solution 1 Topic sentence: One of the possible solutions of the problem is to use alternative raw materials for enterprises and vehicles Advantages: 1. Dramatic positive improvement in air pollution of big cities 2. Public health improvement Disadvantages: 1. Long time process 2. Difficult to control authenticity of the transition to less harmful fuels 3. Deficit of good specialists IV. Solution 2 Topic sentence: The second possible solution is to tighten control of security systems at the factories and include punishments for contamination in all countries Advantages: 1. reducing chance of error caused by people 2. Total execution of new rules 3. Global effect on the whole planet Disadvantages: 1. difficult to enforce these laws 2. circumvention of the law 3. the emergence of panic V. Conclusion ...
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...AS GEOGRAPHY UNIT 1 WORLD AT RISK WORLD AT RISK GLOBAL HAZARDS Hazard – Potential threat to human life or property Natural Hazards – Caused by natural processes e.g. lava flow from volcanic eruption Hydro-meteorological Hazards – Caused by climatic processes (droughts, floods, tropical cyclones and storms Geophysical Hazards – Caused by land processes (volcanic eruptions, earthquakes) Disaster – When a hazard seriously affects humans Risk – Likelihood that humans will be seriously affected by a hazard Vulnerability – How susceptible a population is to the damage caused by a hazard. Disaster Risk Equation Risk (R) – Hazards (H) * Vulnerability (V) / Capacity to Cope (C) Risk increases if: * Frequency or severity of hazards increase * People vulnerability increase * Capacity to cope decreases (Capacity to cope is the ability to deal with the consequences of a hazard) e.g. people in remote areas are further from help in central areas, so have lower capacity to cope) * Global Warming – greatest global hazard * Recent increase in average global temp – climate change * Causes other types of climate change * Context hazard – global in scale (affects all parts of environment) – potential to trigger other hazards or make them worse * Chronic Hazard (Long term) * People who aren’t causing the problem are mostly affected * Difficult to find solutions * Hydro-meteorological hazards becoming more frequent ...
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...Clean Technology: A greener aspect to development Institute of Business Administration University of Dhaka 1 Economics of Geography and Environment (G101) Clean Technology: a greener aspect to development Clean Technology: A greener aspect to development Prepared for: Dr. A. M. M. Amanat Ullah Khan Professor, Department of Geography and Environment University of Dhaka Prepared by: Ahamed Najeeb Rahman ZR-74 Tasnia Azim Choudhury RH-76 M. Samiul Haque ZR-84 Jidny Rubaiyat Shoummo ZR-85 Zahin Azad Moslem ZR-121 BBA 20th Date of Submission: June 15, 2012 Institute of Business Administration University of Dhaka 2 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 15 June, 2012. Dr. A. M. M. Amanat Ullah Khan Course Instructor Economics of Geography and Environment University of Dhaka Subject: Letter of transmittal for Economics of Geography and Environment course termpaper. Dear Sir, Here is the report which you asked us to submit for the requirement of our undergraduate course- Economics of Geography and Environment (G101). The title of the report is “Clean technology: a greener aspect to development”, which is a descriptive analysis of how Green Technology works and can help the environment. This report has been prepared under your authorization. Without your permission, no part of this report can or will be revealed. This report never has been, and never will be, reproduced for any other IBA course. We sincerely hope that you we were able to fulfil the course requirement...
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...SWOT analysis of Ford and Toyota SWOT ANALYSIS “Opposition is an inevitable part of change and one that can significantly impact your community organizing. However, if you know how to take stock of the opposition inside and outside of your effort or group, you are more likely to plan and act effectively.” That's where SWOT analysis comes in. SWOT can help you handle both ordinary and unusual situations in your community health or development initiative, by giving you a tool to explore both internal and external factors that may influence your work. SWOT analysis, founded by Albert Humphrey, is a compacted planning method used to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats involved in a business or in a project. SWOT analysis can be used for product, place, industry or person. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. There are lots of advantages of using SWOT analysis. When a single person is considered, it is a useful technique for understanding his Strengths and Weaknesses, and for identifying both the Opportunities open to him and the Threats he faces. When SWOT analysis is used in business context, it helps you carve a sustainable niche in your market. it can helps to uncover opportunities for the business. And by understanding the weaknesses of the business, threats can be managed and eliminated that would...
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...|1. |According to the Environmental Science text, overuse of local resources had little or no long-lasting effect: | |A) |before the Industrial Revolution | |B) |during the Industrial Revolution | |C) |after the Industrial Revolution | |D) |when there were only a few people on the Earth | |E) |overuse always had a global effect | |2. |Like the Scientific Method, the process of making decisions can be presented as a series of steps. List these steps, as | | |enumerated in this course. | Assumptions, Observation, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Theories (answers) |3. |You weigh flour on a scale to find out how much you need for baking cookies because your recipe calls for exactly 105.00 grams | | |(otherwise your cookies will be like bricks). Yesterday the scale fell from the counter onto the floor and is now off...
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...Technology 7 3.1 Solar Energy 7 3.2 Biofuels 15 3.3 Green Building 21 4.0 Conclusion 33 ii Economics of Geography and Environment (G101) Clean Technology: a greener aspect to development SUMMARY In a world of rapid growth, both in terms of economy and population, human beings have sought to influence the environment around them for a better, more efficient and easier life. The resources that we have used up from the environment have often been nonrenewable and in our heedless march to glorious comfort, we have ignored the consequences of the effect that we are having on the world we live in. With the results of our negative impact on nature coming around to haunt us, there have been a rising global awareness and movement to better ourselves. Green technology is a major part of it. Green technology is the application of the environmental science to conserve the natural environment and resources, and to curb the negative impacts of human involvement. The main idea behind green technology is to provide sustainable growth. That is, using resources from the Earth in a renewable fashion. The following report outlines some aspects of green technology and discusses three main ideas: Solar energy, Green Buildings, Biofuels. In the report, it has been discussed how each of these technologies are environmentfriendly, how they are being used globally and what the advantages of use are. Each of these technologies can be used in the...
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...economy. We start our study of microeconomics by looking at the resources which an economy may have available to supply and produce goods and services to meet the ever-changing needs and wants of individuals and society as a whole.In economics we classify goods as “tangible” products, example might include food and drink, cars, digital televisions, flat-screen televisions, energy products and cricket bats! Services are sometimes known as intangibles, education and health-care are two important services and tourism, business consultancy, cleaning and home insurance are all examples of services.Finite resourcesThere are only a finite (or limited) number of workers, machines, acres of land and reserves of oil and other natural resources on the earth. Because most of our resources are finite, we cannot produce an unlimited number of different goods and services and by producing more for an ever-increasing population we are in real danger of destroying the natural resources of the planet. This has important consequences for the long-term sustainability of economies throughout the world and potentially huge implications for our living standards and the quality of life. | Factors of production Factors of production refer to the resources we have available to produce goods and services. We make a distinction between physical and human resources. Land Land includes all of the natural physical resources – for example the ability to exploit fertile farm land, the benefits from a temperate...
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...Development over Environment: A Pledge to Converse this Trend Introduction The second a child comes on this earth, since that moment he starts developing. For a better and positive development of that child, we proudly implicate for a better and hygienic environment. But in the present scenario, things are a bit different from that of past as yesterday was greener than today. Both development and environment are necessary elements for the survival of a society or a habitat but with the growing or developing economy, at some point of time one has to compromise with the environmental development. Developing nations like India, China, Brazil etc, which are developing economies are ranked in the list of top 10 Green House Gases (GHGs) emitters. It is, by this example, clear that the developing countries in the scale of economy are bigger polluters than the under-developed countries. The trend of development at the expense of environment is being strictly checked by the judiciary, municipal laws and international treaties and customs. Recently, the honourable Supreme Court of India has quoted that development is a trait of progressive society but shall not be made at the cost of environment. It does not take an environmental expert to realize that the world is changing. The global average surface temperature is rising and the rate of temperature increase has nearly doubled in the last 50 years. Many species are experiencing changes in their patterns of growth and migration due to...
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...on the Post-2015 Development Agenda This paper reflects the views of the author and does not represent the views of the Panel. It is provided as background research for the HLP Report, one of many inputs to the process. May 2013 Draft for Discussion Sustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries Draft for Discussion Background paper for the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda Prepared by the co-chairs of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Group on Macroeconomics, Population Dynamics, and Planetary Boundaries: Johan Rockström Executive Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre Professor of Environmental Science, Stockholm University Jeffrey D. Sachs Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University Director, The Sustainable Development Solutions Network Special Advisor to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Millennium Development Goals with Marcus C. Öhman Associate Professor and Senior Researcher in Ecology and Environmental Science, Stockholm Resilience Centre Guido Schmidt-Traub Executive Director, The Sustainable Development Solutions Network 15 March 2013 1 Draft for Discussion The world faces a serious challenge, indeed one that is unique to our age. Developing countries rightly yearn to catch up with the living standards enjoyed in developed countries. If incomes in middle- and low-income countries were to catch up with incomes in high-income countries (roughly $41,000 per...
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