1. The State Of The World's Natural Environment
In AP Environmental Science, we studied the earth and the impacts humans have had on it. We analyzed environmental problems and their causes and we looked at potential solutions to those problems. While there were many important ideas and concepts covered there are three main issues that have chan...
Protectionism The main goal of free trade is to make trade between nations easier and less costly. The way it achieves this goal is by removing barriers such as tariffs, eliminating regulations and dismissing certain standards, which allows the market to balance itself through the p...
The rise of the consumer culture is a phenomenon characterizing the 20th and 21st centuries, where the economy depends on the population's spending on goods and services. Before the Industrial Revolution – that is, before the 18th century in England, or the 19th century in Western Europe and No...
The garden of three senses is a park located in Tampines. The Tampines is the largest residential area in Singapore and it is also the second largest commercial hub of Singapore which is located in the eastern part of Main Island. The Tampines can be the largest residential area and commercial hub b...
Advocates from every walk of life including the mass media, government, science, and the industrial sector are pushing the philosophy to "go green." Let me establish my position right now: I believe that taking precautions to preserve human life, wildlife, and natural resources should be fundamental...
Compare and contrast life nowadays and life fifty years ago. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- We are all born small and grow up, so as everything in our life. Everything either develops to the better or worse. This depends on a lot of circumstances and factor...
Coal accounts for 90% of China's sulfur dioxide emissions. ... Even though China's ecological footprint is still the largest in the world, China is continuously trying to reduce its footprint by spending more and more money each year in order to reduce their carbon emissions. ...
To understand the magnitude of the pressures of resources and ecosystems it is useful to turn to the conceptual equation that is widely attributed to Paul R. Ehrlich (1968). Ehrlich was an American biologist and educator in the year 1968. The equation relates impact (I), to population (P), affluence...
Deforestation causes numerous problems for the environment: "it leads to irreversible loss of productive land, soil erosion, more flooding and landslips, increased sedimentation of waterways, changes in rainfall patterns, loss of carbon dioxide "sinks" plus additions of this greenhouse gas when woodlands are burned, destruction of tribal peoples and catastrophic blow to biodiversity." ...