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nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and hydrocarbons - not to mention the carbon monoxide from ground vehicles - was the cause of the c...
nations that arent members. Still, there is a long path from issuance to compliance. This paper will examine some of what ...
Institute, 2002). Only one-third of urban Chinese have access to gas for cooking (World Resource Institute, 2002). The situation ...
It should come as no surprise that interest in energy taxes in order to regulate the environment has grown during the past decade ...
with the "other" world; that is, the world we created which revolves around our "homes, cars, farms, factories, laboratories, food...
burned in addition to the health havoc it wreaked on the population of South East Asia (Linden, 1998). At the height of the fires,...
the resulting contamination has blown over both China and Burma, and looks as if it may also spread further west. The problem is...
Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...
terms of its fragile environment, humanity is on a collision course with disaster. It is not enough to warn people, impose econom...
However, as the disease progresses, it may cause a low-grade fever as well as night sweats and fatigue (1996). Also, leukemia may ...
from escaping the atmosphere. Allowed to hang thick in the sky and worsen year after year, Mexico City has become a caldron of ai...
agencies were involved. Why? Boston Harbor had a pollution problem. During the early 1980s, an organization called CLF filed a la...
conducting assessments of our environmental performance and taking action toward continuous improvement in all that we do (Anonymo...
Clearly there is a problem. Due to many technological advances and increasing worldwide populations, there are more and more...
and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...
pages when in the fall of 1988, the terrorist attack on U.S. Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland became at the time "the worst sec...
the effects of carcinogens and toxins (p. 88). Canadian scientists have found that algin, although non-digestible in an of itself...
priorities since it affects people of all ages and classes. Unfortunately, ridding the world of mercury air pollution is no...
Looking at this from an ecocentric paradigm the motivation may be questionable, but the fact remains Volvo had an extremely good r...
should disturb the essence of the idea. It is the same with architecture" (Levy, 1997, p. 69). Organization of the Eames H...
convenience" (Thomas PG). For example, there is no question how the concept of Electronic Funds Transfer, which has been in...
this cannot be good for Chinas economy. After all, these measures are expensive and pollution costs nations a lot of money to eith...
factors may complicate how successful efforts are at true pollution control. Nonpoint sources are much more difficult to monitor a...
well outside of the southeast province where it had contained capitalist pursuits beginning in 1979. The consequences for the res...
septic tank (domestic treatment system) with very specific conditions, including the existing of six meters of gravely till overly...
urban residents lived in slums" (African ministerial conference, 2005). This means that almost two-thirds of the African urban po...
substances that will remain in the soil for many future decades. Current EPA findings indicate that even the most sophisticated o...
being. While nuclear accidents are extreme situations, everyday life provides a myriad of pollutants in the immediate environment....
death of Chairman Mao has proved to be economically successful, but the environment has suffered at the hand of economic developme...
the sea to realize this answer. III. MARINE LIFE DAMAGE Of all the environmentally diverse life forms on this planet, the oceans...