There are three imperative Issues facing our global community; Economy, Environment, Food and clean drinking water. Economy is a vital part of life in our world, if the global community is deficient, every country in the world will be affected. Our planets environment is also a key point of interests in our global population, food production, global warming and environmental disaster's. ... With these positions in our global community, it is affected both for the better and poorer. ... Past productive pasturelands are turning into deserts at an alarming rate while low-lying coastal areas...

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Trees also absorb carbon monoxide, which nearly 25% of Americans produce, which in turn cause global warming. ... We recently discussed global warming and the serious affects of it. The lack of trees can directly affect the seriousness of global warming for the worse. ...

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Turning the light on and the computer off doesn't dissolve my disturbed mood; nothing does until the outside can creep in and warm me. It's usually a human voice; something more real than the essays and articles I read on global warming and remote ice caps that melt slowly every year. ... We are conducting an inadvertent global experiment by changing the face of the entire planet. ... This warming will rearrange entire biological communities and cause many species to become extinct. ... Beyond the possible consequences of global warming and our polluted air, there should be more do...

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With the advent of globalization, the construction of buildings like residential or commercial forms the basis of economic development. ... The loss of the biodiversity and ecological imbalance is responsible for climatic changes like global warming and ozone layer depletion. ... Since Tampines had already limited parks and vegetation, disintegration of another park would thereby increase the carbon dioxide in the air which is the main problem source of global warming. ...

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Things to reflect on, which seem to address these issues and concerns might include; the Neoliberal View, which states the environment is natural capital (p158) ; the People-Centered Development View, which suggests a alternate definition of sustainable development (pg 158) ; and lastly the Global Environmental Management View which attempt to achieve environmental management at a global level (pg160) . ... If the appropriate measures are not taken the global environment will simply become worse and worse, until there is sadly nothing left, and nothing exists anymore. ... Agenda 21's m...

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When speaking of the automobile alone "...each gallon of gas burned releases 22 pounds of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...the car is the single largest contributor to global warming " (Rifkin 179). ... It is important to realize that global warming is a direct result of the depletion of ozone in the atmosphere. ... "...the atmosphere will...need to be regulated as a global trust if the human community is to entertain any possibility of addressing the problems of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and air pollution. In June 1988, the prime ministers of Norway an...

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When speaking of the automobile alone "...each gallon of gas burned releases 22 pounds of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...the car is the single largest contributor to global warming " (Rifkin 179). ... It is important to realize that global warming is a direct result of the depletion of ozone in the atmosphere. ... "...the atmosphere will...need to be regulated as a global trust if the human community is to entertain any possibility of addressing the problems of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and air pollution. In June 1988, the prime ministers of Norway and C...

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It seems that only ten years ago, we were all wearing save the rainforest T-shirts, we were protesting pollution, we cared about global warming. If I remember correctly, Earth Day seemed to be a mandatory holiday in our nations' public schools, with each student enthusiastically doing his or her part to save the world for our children, (subtle laugh) Today, we don't wear save the rainforest shirts, we've somewhat lost our steam on the global warming front, and I challenge you to find a high school student that even knows what month Earth Day is in. ...

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How I Can Improve the Quality of the Environment Our environment is a major aspect of our life today. Many of us don't take our Earth seriously and think that as long as pollution doesn't hurt us then we can go ahead and throw garbage on the ground or spill oil down the drain. Well too man...

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Multi-national Corporations: Are they at the heart of many Environmental problems facing the Global South? ... A report released by "Essential action and Global Change" in January 2000 claimed that almost every large multinational oil company working in the Niger Delta, employed " inadequate environmental standards, public health standards, human rights standards and relations with effected communities"10 Not only is there deep concern for the environmental damage these MNCs are causing in the Niger delta, but another great concern is the conflict between local people and local government...

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The global dependence on energy creates a demand for the production of various sources of energy. ... Differing energy production and consumption trends, economic plight and the ignorance of preventative actions have placed global, collective environmental health at risk. ... As global environmental health is damaged further every day, natural disasters are more prevalent than they ever have been. ... Coveted land in the warm south drove land in this area to be economically valuable. ... This places the global environment at great risk, which parallels the detriments to human health. ...

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One thing I have to say is that I take MTD to go back home when the class is over, it is not because my boyfriend doesnt want to pick me up, but I feel it unnecessary to travel in a car when I am not in a hurry, and driving a car produces more carbon dioxide into the air that worsens the global warming than taking mass transportation. ...

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From the time of child would we have been taught that progress have different definition. One of the most common definitions of progress is the moving forward or improvement. From the down of civilization man has made tremendous progress in every aspect of human society. There is lot of progress hap...

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As Pfizer, a multinational corporation, we have certain ethical responsibilities. There are two traditional stakeholder theories by which my company may operate. One is the ownership theory. The ownership theory is mainly focused on making a profit: maximizing shareholder returns and making as much money as possible for those who own stock in the firm. This theory is ethically wrong because it only accounts for stockholders and owners as true stakeholders of the firm. ...

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