For example, New York has one of the cleanest drinking water systems in the world, the Hudson River, which has allowed it to save a tremendous amount of money in filtration plants. ... The Hudson River provides 9 million people with fresh drinking water in New York City alone. ... There are many other reasons as to why CO2 levels in the atmosphere have skyrocketed such as our transportation system and meat industry. ...

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Popular media, scientists, and government (along with many other entities) use propaganda to harvest fear and generate profit for their personal initiatives. ... The Other Side of the Coin International expansion and free trade are avenues many businesses take in order to avoid duties, regulations, etc. simply in an effort to generate more free cash flows and increase the value of the company. ... Personally, I love to be on the water and I have seen factories and other facilities dump waste into rivers. ... Do not continue a process if you find it harmful to others "that should just be c...

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Tornadoes, hurricanes, and other irregular weather patterns are destroying houses and farms. ... Inlets, where the river meets the sea, will widen out, and cause the sea water to flow into rivers and streams. ... Power stations that contain turbines and generators are built near the downstream side of the dam. ... There are two types of hydroelectricity dams called dams and run-of-river, or water-diversion. ... They can change the flow of rivers, increase the amount of sediment in the water and decrease oxygen level; in return, this can kill fish and other wildlife. ...

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Economic development is very important for a country's economy but on the other hand economic development is only successful when the environment is taken good care of which leads to better health for the citizens. ... Almost 90 percent of underground water in cities and 70 percent of China's rivers and lakes are now polluted. In Shanghai last year roughly 16,000 dead pigs were discovered floating through the Huangpu River. ... "China's Environmental Crisis" is an informative article as it does not side the government or the citizens. ...

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Over the past two decades, scientists have been working arduously in search of answers of climatic change and other nature-based phenomenon instead of finding a way to prevent it. ... "Go to the parking lot of the nearest suburban supermarket and look around: the only conclusion you can draw is that to reach the grocery, people must drive through three or four raging rivers and up the side of a trackless canyon" (p.593). ...

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Acid rain affects lakes, streams, rivers, bays, ponds and other bodies of water by increasing their acidity until fish and other aquatic creatures can no longer live. ... Other metal flows into the water from the soils in the surrounding watershed. ... The acid rain releases these metals and they stunt the growth of trees and other plants and also that of mosses, algae, nitrogen-fixing bacteria and fungi needed for forest growth. ... They stomped on getting rid of sulfur but what about the other items that cause acid rain. Then you have the other side that states the two main ingredients ...

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Also, sand on the re-nourished beaches will just be eroded again unless other coastal protection measure are undertaken. ... These structures absorb or reduce the energy of the waves and cause materials to be deposited on the right side of the groyne facing longshore drift. ... Also, no new materials are carried and deposited on the downdrift side, eventually eroding the beach. Large amounts of sediments were eroded on the downdrift side of a groyne built along Sandy Hook in New Jersey, United States of America. ... Also, as tetrapods are pre-casted, they can be placed quickly compared to the...

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Just as the world isn't black and white, the issue on fracking has more than two sides to the issue. ... That causes contamination to the water like that in the Ohio River. ... The air emissions from the drills, trucks, and other machinery coming in and out of fracking zones have also increased the ground level ozone. ... The arguments for both sides are compelling, but the environment doesn't need yet another problem to deal with. ...

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Or can this issue be thrown to the side? ... Nearly all of America's lakes, rivers, and estuaries are swim able and fishable. ... On the other hand, Philip Stott blames this on Mother Nature, which we have no control over. ... Stott and other scientists are researching into other parts of the world, such as Antarctica because it is an observable place, where it is nonindustrialized. ... Until Stott and others research other areas, Bailey should consider keeping quiet. ...

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Timber and other products of forests are important economically both locally and as exports. ... Other non-wood forest products come in the form of medicinal compounds, dyes and fabrics. ... On the other hand, high population densities in the Andean highlands led to settlement projects in the Amazonian lowlands, resulting in deforestation. ... These losses will affect the production of pharmaceuticals and medicines, biotechnology, and food security, among other things. ... However, there were few other legislative provisions by far indirectly acting for the conservation of natural resources. ...

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Introduction Tipping point is known to be a worldwide term that has become very popular in diverse form of usage for referring or describing the probable effects of the processes resulting from the consequences of the way we live on earth referring to our relationship with the environment and other aspects of life. ... (Gladwell, 2000) expressed that out of all three characteristics, the third attribute is the most important because it is the main principle that makes sense of the others and allows for the highest understanding unto why modern change happens the way it does. Tipping point is...

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