fuels. Environmental problems have increased highly throughout many centuries. Our population is growing out of control and has put an increase pressure on natural resources, water, raw materials, and land. In the world environmental problems are getting worse every day because of extracting the resources are put into production which could cause pollution. To help the environment there are ways to protect it by using renewable materials, recycling, and planting trees. In the Earth there are many resources that we use to survive, but it could be depleted if it is overused. People could…
Environmental racism has been a problem for many years. Some people have died, some people have went to jail over this and some has gotten very sick. The government has placed hazardous toxics all over the world in minority communities. Environmental racism is something that effects people in different ways everywhere. The problems have a long history that continues to this day. The government has been putting hazardous toxic in mostly black and Hispanic neighborhoods. For example, the text…
In today’s society that we live in, there are countless amounts of environmental problems that we face, such as global warming, pollution , animal extinction , and overpopulation. These issues affect our environment for the worse and have caused problems physically and economically. For instance, in Houston, Texas, overpopulation is becoming one of the major problems. This city has come to the extreme where it has had to expand the urbanization. Houston has a flat land surface which is mostly…
China as the second largest economic power in the world currently is facing a dilemma- development or environment? Since the late 1970s, China’s rapid economic development has been accompanied by environmental problems especially pollution and also resource constraints. Thus, it is a challenge for China to resolve and balance both development and environment due to its unique demography and terrain. The study focuses on the development needs and the importance of the environment in the case of…
Louisiana has faced many environmental problems throughout its history. Problems such as shoreline loss, wetlands being destroyed, and oceanic life dying. These problems are because of Hurricane Katrina, human population density, and the oil spill. The hurricane wiped out the region’s shoreline and the oil spill killed many of the oceanic life in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Marquina (2015), a storm like Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster waiting to happen for the state of Louisiana.…
Another social problem that relates to environmental problems is the growing inequality between the rich and the poor. The top over consume energy, raw materials, and manufactured goods, and the poor must cut down trees, grow crops, and fish. Due to this, both the rich and the poor are committing acts that are harmful to the planet. This leads to the next problem of inequality between the rich and the poor. The poor, because of dangerous jobs and residential segregation, are more exposed than…
The world is being polluted and it is an issue that is becoming one of the most crucial problems to solve, especially in Cambodia, where it is only getting worse everyday. The environment crisis is considered as a top priority issue in this country due to the challenges the country needed to overcome in trying to mitigate the impact it has on its citizens. The three major problems that Cambodia has been facing nowadays are deforestation, lack of waste management and air pollution. Firstly, the…
It is redundant to say that Montana can provide a small(er) scale representation of the United States, each state represents the whole in some way or another, however, it is fair to say that the remoteness of Bitterroot serves almost like a control group for the rest of the country. As Diamond puts it, “Bitterroot valley presents a microcosm of the environmental problems plaguing the rest of the United States: Increasing population… increasing scarcity and decreasing quality of water… poor air…
Environmental Quality as a Social Problem When we speak of environmental quality, we are speaking about the quality of our total environment, not just the natural environment. “Environmental quality is the measure of the health of that environment itself (including the plants and animals it supports), and of the effects it has on the health, comfort, and psychological state of the people that inhabit it.” We all agree that the environment people live in has a noticeable effect on their health,…
Zulu is an ethnic group in Africa, they are said to be the largest ethnic group in South Africa. Most Zulus are located near the KwaZulu-Natal region. The Zulus are really famous for their “fighting spirit” and also for their beaded crafts and basketry. Their main language is Bantu, but there are many languages that come under that. In this essay I wanted to discuss some environmental problems that Zulus go through, and also relate to the problems that African Americans have gone through in the…