After the technological boom that our society experienced in the last couple of decades, people are returning to some basic environmental values. People in more developed countries, particularly Europe, are more environmentally conscious than ever. Our planet is a great resource, but we can not ex...

The Problems of PollutionI 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 surrounding...

From the moment I began to compare Santa Cruz to my hometown, the differences became eminent. Growing up in Los Angeles, I was exposed to one of the most populated cities in all of the United States. While Santa Cruz has a population of only 49,040 people, Los Angeles has an astounding 3,485,398. ...

Introduction: Bangladesh is apparently now in the grip of all sorts of pollution, like air pollution, soil pollution, water pollution and what not. Dwellers of the urban areas are the worst sufferers. The indiscriminate industrialization process in Bangladesh over the past decades has created signi...

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...

Since the beginning of evolution, humans have been creating innovative ways to simplify life. From the discovery of fire to modern advances in technology, the main objective was to simplify adversity in life. Although modern advances in technology have proven advantageous, few people take the time t...

Business, Technology, and Environmental Ethics have been related to all the important events that had happened during this period. Progress in the technology field has not only made people independent of much manual work, but also, it has brought many negative effects that have caused damage to our ...

I feel that the responsibility for keeping the environment clean does not rest with the corporations who pollute it, but with the government who does not stop them. If there are no laws and regulations that are enforced by the government for the corporations to follow then they are in no way...

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...

Introduction: The laws behind environmental protection are basic in nature and intend to accomplish one main thing; to help reduce the amount of damage that is already being done to the environment and prevent further damage from being done. Many different types of laws exist; form laws on a...

Problems in the Great lakesThe film Great Lakes Bitter Legacy made a lasting impression on myself. And is making a larger impact on the wildlife and communities surrounding the Great Lakes. I never understood what devastating results could be generated from chemical dumping. Pollutants like plant fe...

The anthropocentric approach is criticized for "limiting values to the human realm," for being biased toward the nonhuman world, and for its failure "to provide a satisfactory basis for a moral philosophy of ecological obligation" because it is concerned with human self-interest (Lecture). These ar...

Imagine the world 50 years from now; picture the scenario of dark skies, gloomy clouds everything around you either is dying or has died. This exactly will take place if nobody takes action against the " potentially earth shattering problems". This horrible scenario would be the result of mankind's ...

Throughout the centuries mankind has displayed the Western attitude that nature must be conquered. In attempting to vanquish nature, our natural environment has been gradually destroyed. Because of man's attitude toward our planet, the earth's capacity to sustain life is jeopardized. In...

Typically, in the past and even in the present day, people have either have an anthropocentric view, humankind as the center of existence, or ecocentric, concerned with all living organisms and their environment. Sessions wrote (2001, p.158) , In 1972, the environmental textbook writer G. Tyler Mi...

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 mankind m...

There's a saying that comes swooping out of the chaos of the Universein times when order is needed: the only constant is change. Nutrientcycling is about change. Unfortunately, it's also about pollution andwaste. Think about waste for a moment. There are two meanings to theword. To waste ...

The oppression has been an issue that has affected human life for a very long time. Man has always seen himself as separate from nature. Nature is not something he is a part of, but a resource that he can do whatever he wants with. The plants are for use to eat, the forests are a source of lumber f...

“Can Selfishness Save the Environment” Economists and Biologists have come to realize that people are really only motivated by self-interest. For economists this means economic incentives, and for biologists it means the pursuit of short-term goals that were once the means to reproduc...

Lake Macquarie is Australia's second largest salt-water lake. It is bound by the Wattagan Mountain Range on the west and the Tasman Sea on the east. The lake can appear with picture perfect waters great for recreational boating, swimming or just to look at, but contains fully functional ecosyst...

Environmental Impact of New Technology Things like SUV's and Jumbo Jets may be a good thing now, why they get us around from place to place very quickly. But from using these "modern" conveniences we are actually harming the environment. The pollutants released from these and many ...

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 ...

Busy, Boring, What's What? Country life and city life are two very different things. People have argued for decades which is the better lifestyle and they have their reasons to. Things such as work styles, environment, and entertainment are three things that vary differently between the two...

The relationship between population and consumption might not be a concern for most people. In fact, most of these people might only have a little knowledge of this relationship because they do not realize the importance of it. They might feel that population and consumption do not intervene with...

The environment plays a large role in the way campaigns are run. Businesses are greatly affected by what politicians decide to do about the environment. Environmentalist groups are large and powerful groups. Campaigns must juggle issues between these two groups. Many Americans think it a stretch...