The Problems of Pollution I think that pollution is a serious and growing problem throughout the world today. Pollution is the contamination of the earth's environment with materials that interfere with human health, the quality of life, and natural functioning of living things and their s...

The Environmental Crisis is it real? IN the section " The Environmental Crisis is it real?" the author Barbara Ruben tries to explain why media coverage of the environmental situation has been skewed. In the early 90's there was an "environmental backlash" in the medi...

Sider hit the mark when he writes in his article that there are "gaping holes in the ozone layer, polluted rivers, expanding deserts, denuded mountains, air-poisoned cities, and spiraling carbon emissions producing global warming." This present day ecological disasters are here and now and...

Now is the Time! The day has come, for us to finish what our ancestors have started, stand against our oppressors, and prevail victorious with our freedom. Now is the time! Now is the time to put our petty differences behind us! Now is the time to end all our quarrels! Now, I say! Now is t...

Earth Day, Every Day The dictionary's definition of the word respect is "to regard, to relate to, to honor, to have consideration for". In the world today it appears that the word and it's meaning has become obsolete. Total disregard for life, both for man and his planet, has...

In Earth in the Balance, Vice President Al Gore said "the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." In the past 150 years, earth's resources have been abused and people do not know how to deal with the effects of not treating the earth right. I...

Geographically close but rather different The United States and Mexico are located geographically besides each other. They are interrelated in many aspects, such as economy, traditions, and ways of life, but they differ in some minimal aspects. People in each of the countries have a different way ...

Due to the problem of scarce resources and the scientific revolution in the fields of Chemistry and Physics, plastics were developed in the year 1860. Providing an appropriate substitute, with certain additional properties, for various natural resources, plastics have certain advantages and disadva...

Prior to the 1920's, very few people were aware of the term or concept "biosphere", and prior to the 1960's minimal people knew the term "environment". Beginning around the 1930's, literature concerning this topic began to appear. Up until this time Americans thou...

A Deadly Effect "More than a quarter million American children, ages one through five, ingest a combination of 20 different pesticides every day" (pmac.net/pestprop.html). That means 250,000 children in the United States are eating pesticides daily. Pesticides have been a problem since ...

Environmental issues are more and more becoming part of the American society. We have gone from a people who have no need to conserve items such as power, water, and oil, to people who are infatuated with the idea of cleaning up the environment. Once litter ruled the road sides, and now we have pr...

Human Impact on the Earth It is a well-known fact that humans have been living and modifying the earth since the beginning of time. However, as we continue to inhabit this planet, we consciously and subconsciously destroy our precious environment with the intent of making life easier and also ...