Managing Environmental Issues

Not knowing how to cultivate the land or domesticate animals, the Cherokee at a standstill. The Whites, who knew how to cultivate the land and domesticate animals, would have been able to utilize the land to its fullest potential instead of withering away precious resources. The Whites tried various methods to persuade the Cherokee to part with their land, but they refused and were frequently abused. “… we have come to the conclusion that this nation cannot be reinstated in its present location, and that the question left to us and to every Cherokee, is, whether it is more desirable to remain here, with all the embarrassments with which we must be surrounded, or to seek a country where we may enjoy our own laws, and live under our own vine and fig-tree.” If the Cherokee had agreed to relocate further west, they would not have had to go through adversity. The Whites would have left them alone, free to create their own laws and free to do what they wanted. The Cherokee pushed their source of food westward leaving a shortage of deer and buffalo and they did not have the knowledge or resources to cultivate the land. Due to these facts, they were not self-sufficient and would not have been able to survive using their outdated methods of living. Compared to the Whites, the Cherokee population was miniscule, spread across a vast amount of land. “The

Global warming or climate change is at the top of the agenda as far as major environmental issues go. All our current environmental issues end up becoming a global problem. Take any one, two, or even three issues; water levels rising, carbon emissions, temperature increases and you have global warming. These issues and more combined starts a cascade effect like gradual heating of earth, ocean levels start to rise due to melting of polar ice caps in short, a greenhouse effect.

Another very crucial environmental issue, besides global warming, involves the finite nature of natural re, which are being depleted faster than their replenishment rates. The development model of the 20th century, which promoted the continuous consumption of products, has resulted in the reduction of agriculture land, food, water re as also fossil fuels. If humanity continues to consume fossil fuels at the same rate as today, oil re will run out by 2030, gas by 2040 and coal by 2200. By 2025, the number of people suffering due to water stress will rise to approximately 3.5 billion and almost half the world’s population is expected to experience high water stress by

Colney and Pitts is a California based pharmaceutical company. Colney and Pitts is planning to set up a manufacturing plant near the Aberdares mountain range in the eastern highlands of Kenya to produce medicines for prostate disease. The Kikuyu tribe is the largest tribe in the country and occupies the Aberdares mountain range. An extensive ethno botanical survey on the use of the medicinal plants by this tribe has indicated that an evergreen tree popularly known as “Pygeum” or prunus Africana has been traditionally used to cure “old men’s disease”, which are prostatitis and genitourinary disorders. Colney and Pitts

The post is quite interesting and the ethical considerations come handy for our projects currently in construction. Certainly, there is no secret that human beings throughout history have always being determined to better themselves. However, the issue here presented is that more than taking advantage of the combination of technology with other fields to correct health issues, address the environmental conundrums, or in simple terms to improve the quality of life of other humans beings in need. Humanity is entering the point that the so call transhumant evolution changes are far from what is necessary to the point where the manipulated change is simple by will, depending more on the personal interests, a lifestyle.

Post-secondary and graduate educations are attainable goals with selected people experiencing the barrier of affordability. Certain individuals come from affluent families and money is not an obstacle to higher education. Others have opportunities to secure funds due to athletic or academic excellence with grants and scholarships. For those who don’t fit in those two categories, they still have the opportunity to go to college with the help of financial aid. If the desire is present, the effort is easy.

Commons are resources that people have access to, and there is no payment required to use those resources. Examples of these types of resources are lakes, rivers, oceans, public green spaces, roads, ocean fisheries and many others. A tragedy of commons is when a person finds his share of cost of waste he discharges into common areas that other people use, is less than cost of purifying wastes before releasing them. Many people do not realize that some of their actions are affecting people more than they know. By adding to the tragedy of commons they are making resources less available for others. In Layzer’s “The Environmental Case” gives a classic example of the tragedy of commons by discussing the Crisis and Recovery in the New England Fisheries.

Over the past few decades there has been a concerted effort to ensure that states and businesses understand that they have a responsibility to the environment. The writings of Bansal & Hoffman (2012), Gallagher & Lewis (2013), Kolk & Pinkse (2005), Krugman (2010), Mikler (2007), and Olmstead (2013), touch on this understanding and the effort needed to change current policies and practices. In each of these writings, two overall themes appear. The first is that states and businesses must be held accountable for their impact on the environment and second is that there are various means that can be used to show businesses and states that they must take this responsibility seriously. Understanding each of these themes is crucial to states and businesses if they are going to be able to make the necessary change to ensure minimal market disruption. To ensure this, states and business must have a plan created and ready to implement. This plan must include policies and practices that are specific to the business or state and the costs associated with it. To show this, the writings of the authors mentioned above will be analyzed to show why a plan is needed, how it may be created, examples of plans states or businesses have already implemented, and what states may do to influence the creation and implantation of these plans. Through all of this it will be seen that creating a sustainable system will require the cooperation of all.

Whenever the issue of environmental management arises, it causes a stir in both the political and social circles. There are always comparisons between the environmental situations in different parts of the world. This paper focuses on factors affecting the overall influence that certain economic elements have on the environmental quality. Such factors may include lack of proper knowledge and inadequacy of resources. It is important to note that various components define the environment, such as the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis (EKC). The EKC and the citizens of a developing country can explain the reasons for the state of environmental quality in developing countries.

Some humans spend their time obsessing over super-heroes while others are obsessing over saving the planet but is there a possible super- power capable of doing so? As emphasized in “Man and Nature” written in 2002 by George Perkins Marsh, a key figure to the commencement of environmentalism (“George Perkins Marsh”, 2015), mankind has done its fair share of destroying nature’s functionality with expectations of a futile environment in return. Although there are constant changes occurring to the environment and the policies having to do with the environment, this article addresses issues that have continued to depress throughout the years. Some of the main aspects and issues addressed in Marsh’s article include the comparison of human vs. animal impact on the environment, changes that have begun to take place although they need a further power to fully improve, protection that needs to be put into place on pastures and land that have yet to be used, the search of a solution to balance the rainfall in each different kind of climate and biome and the need to be able to differentiate changes occurring because of human actions or because of geological actions.

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, sustainability is defined as “of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged” (Merriam-Webster, 2017). The Federal Government regulates the specific use and protection of natural resources through the Environmental Protection Agency (henceforth, EPA). In 1962 Rachel Carson published a book called “Silent Spring” which popularized the idea of environmental protection (EPA History, 2017). The momentum for protection of the environment grew until, in 1970, President Richard Nixon established the EPA (EPA History, 2017). The EPA bases their sustainability efforts on the idea that, “everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. To pursue sustainability is to create and maintain the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony to support present and future generations.” (Learn About Sustainability, 2016). The stated mission of the EPA is to ensure Americans are protected from health and environmental risks, national policies are based on available scientific data, environmental laws are enforced fairly, environmental protection is a consideration during the creation of United States foreign and domestic policies, environmental information provided to Americans is accurate, and ensuring that the United States is a world leader in environmental

There are various communication channels used to communicate in the organization. Some of these media include telephones, electronic messages, reports, letters, and memos.

Greenwood, Lisa; Rosenbeck, Joseph; and Scott, Jason (2012) "The Role of the Environmental Manager in Advancing Environmental

Theodore Roosevelt had once said, “The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired in value”. These words have resonated since and have been an example as to why it is our duty as inhabitants of this planet to provide protection to the ever so fragile environment. But what is Environmental protection exactly? Well it is one of the most important, and expensive problems businesses and society are facing today. Why you may ask? Since the industrial age all the countries around the world have been burning an assortment of fuel to power factories, vehicles, heat homes, and even to cook with and when these fuels are burned they emit carbon dioxide and various other chemicals which over time add up and take a very long time to breakdown. As a result they trap heat from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere raising the global temperature and causing a domino effect on the environment. Likewise companies produce hazardous waste and dump them illegally in waters which kills vast amounts of marine life. Although laws are in place to protect the planet, inventions are slowly being created to provide alternative sources of energy and agencies already exist to protect the environment. However it is our duty as people in a society to act on our own by demanding for our government to show greater concern for the environment by reforming environmental protection laws with stricter guide lines,

The heavy haze in the past few days has made the world fuzzy and unreal; pedestrians wrapped in clothes suddenly faded away around me in the “fantasy” created by the haze. Walking back home after school, I decided to stop at the apricot park and looking for the trees and flowers as I always did before. However, what I saw was white and grey image blurred behind the heavy haze, nothing else.