Plastics are great things, they move the world forward and are found in every conceivable object out there. When they're in your computers they allow for instant access to all the world's knowledge. When they're in refrigerators, they keep food edible for lengths of time unimaginable in pre-industrial times. When they're in organisms, they inhibit vital functions and set the stage for massive, bottom up food web collapses. Nine out of ten plastic bottles bought in the US don't get recycled. If we're lucky, they'll end up in a landfill, and if we're not, which we're not, most of them will end up on the side of the road. When it rains, the plastic gets washed into the streams, then the rivers, and eventually the Ocean. Once there, they are blasted by radiation from the sun, and slowly photodegrade into tiny pieces. These microplastics have the unfortunate tendency to absorb organic toxins found in the water from our many other silly endeavors to make this world a more comfortable place, such as PCBs, DDT, and PAHs. When these plastics and their toxic company are absorbed into plankton, they enter the food chain, causing many problems, primarily hormone imbalances and cancers. .
It seems pretty straight forward: we're poisoning ourselves. Research shows that on average, tap water is actually cleaner and safer than bottled water, and it is between 250 and 1000 times cheaper. Double blind studies have also failed to show any ability to distinguish between bottled and tap water based on taste. So why is it that Americans still spend about 9.8 billion dollars on bottled water every year? Tom Standage points out that "ounce for ounce, it costs more than gasoline," and that was in 2005, when gas prices were near an all-time high. Some people don't drink it because of illogical fears of chemicals added to tap water, such as fluoride, but this is unhelpful, because when heated water is force through a nozzle, solutes in the water are put into the air.
There are also arguments against the causes of all of this plastic in the ocean. ... Rebuttal- While these arguments are valid, they are also not as pressing as the negative aspects of this landfill. ... Today we use 20 times more plastic than we did 50 years ago. Each year, 100 million tones of plastic are used worldwide. ... Single-use plastic bags first ...
In Jacobwitz's defense, he claimed that "water buffalo " was the English translation of the Hebrew word, behayma, which is defined as slob. ... Delgado explains his point with a different method by gathering the common arguments against regulation to then counter them with his reasoning. One of the important ones is called the Pressure Valve Argument. ... To put it into simpler terms, if there is a ban on speech, there will be people who will go out of their way to find out the reason and then use that reason against the specific group that the law is supposed to be protecting. ... As for...
Discuss the arguments for and against this perspective. ... It is because this is unlikely to change in the near future that investment in training has often been justified as a worthwhile use of time and expense. ... Several programmes to train TBAs have been evaluated in the literature and credible arguments have been made for and against. ... I have had my own experience with this as a midwife on home visits in London, where I have come across African mothers feeding their babies on bottles of sugar water. Although I explain to them the importance of early breastfeeding, I realize t...
In addition, birds such as egrets, ducks, and hawks use vernal pools as a seasonal source of food and water (Marshall, 1978). ... This is also true with migratory birds, which use the wetlands to make pit stops and raise their young. ... Peat is still mined today for its fuel uses, which is another cause of destruction to wetlands. ... Well people need water, and lots of it. ... Not only do wetlands protect our water, but they also protect us from water. ...
Coincident with this has been the rise in the use of Ecstasy. ... In the late 1970s it began to be used as a therapeutic tool and was kept under wraps as a special drug which should not be exploited in the way LSD was used after Timothy Leary's famous phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."" ... Little wonder that Ecstasy use increased so rapidly; the downside was yet to come. ... Peaks and troughs, present in all music were accented using the methods described above. ... These were initially due to heat stroke, later also due to water intoxication (swelling of the brain caused by too much ...
In Baum's novel, Dorothy throws the water on the wicked Witch because She is angry at the witch for not returning one of her silver shoes. In the film, Dorothy throws the water on the witch (inadvertently) while attempting to douse the fire with which the witch ignited the Scarecrow. ... I do not think that the argument could be made that the silver shoes would be too blinding on film because the original film version was done in black and white. ... We can't get love, brains or courage from a bottle or from a Wizard; we can only get them by doing them. Another aspect...
While doing this, he decided to initiate one of our usual points of argument. ... He looked glossy eyed while looking like he needed some water. ... "Here's a hint, whats the problem we always have buying a hot water from a drinking store" "Too much choice?... I thought, must be just stating the full statement or he using my own philosophy against me" "Why are you so serious sometimes kampona, you kn...
It is set up to have intravenous (IV) drug users exchange their used syringes for new ones. ... Unlike the law enforcement model which simply wants to punish users with arrest and stiff jail terms, harm reduction wants to meet the addict where they are while not condoning their drug use gives them a safe way to use and dispose of their used syringes. ... Examples of this outside drug use would be a parent giving the teenager birth control, seatbelts in a vehicle or handing out water bottles at rave parties where dehydrating drugs are used. ... IV drug users are able to make these exchanges wi...
Most children know that killing is against the law and learn religiously that it goes against all religious morals and beliefs, yet society is bombarded by violence everyday in the media and in real life. ... Another account of a mother murdering her children is that of Diana Yano who "has only a patchy memory of the afternoon she ran the bath water and drowned her two children" to "send them to a watery grave". ... There had been testifies stating that the mother " was prescribed a bottle of liquid codeine weeks before her son's death". ... It turns out this provision has been used ...