Summary: A Modest Proposal For Energy Conservation

Water Pollution: Clean drinking water is becoming a rare commodity. Water is becoming an economic and political issue as the human population fights for this resource. One of the options suggested is using the process of desalinization. Industrial development is filling our rivers seas and oceans with toxic pollutants which are a major threat to human health.

The world’s forest continue to disappear as they as consumed for human consumption and cleared to make for human needs. This type of destruction of forest is serious because of the habitat lost, ecosystem, and the food cycle of all living

The affect of environmental issues occur everyday and in particular deforestation is becoming a highly ranked subject. From animals to the human race, the alacrity of trees that are cut down affects every individual in a variety of ways. Not only do people need to help the planet but they need to help themselves and further generations to come, such as children and grandchildren because these natural resources that are being taken away from society are as well shaping the future. For comprehensible reasons, forests use to make up the world, until man made creatures started to destroy and destruct the most important supply to human kind which are trees. Trees are crucial to every living entity for the reason of providing oxygen to all.

A forest is the most diverse and richest biological system on the face of earth. Forests are essential to the global environment because of their profound impacts on ecology, culture and economy. According to David Suzuki, “Canada’s forests cover almost half of the country’s landmass and make up 10 percent of the world’s forest cover. Forests are a crucial part of Canada’s natural heritage, wilderness areas and economy” (Para2). Canadian forests play a primary role in the life of Canadians; however, exploitation of this natural wealth brings harm to the country. Logging operations in the forests brings long term harms to the biodiversity if not done sustainably. The logging has several negative impacts on our

However, forests around the world are under threat from deforestation, jeopardizing these benefits. Deforestation comes in many forms, including fires, clear-cutting for agriculture, ranching and development, unsustainable logging for timber, and degradation due to climate change. This impacts people’s livelihoods and threatens a wide range of plant and animal species. Some 46-58 thousand square miles of forest are lost each year, which is equivalent to 36 football fields every minute.

Deforestation is the destruction of a wide area of forest land into a cleared land that is used for a variety of reasons. The impact on the environment from cutting down, burning and damaging forests is very detrimental and there are severe consequences for the environment and future generations because of deforestation. According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization approximately 7.3 million hectares of forests are being destroyed per year in the world (Bradford, 2015). In this essay, I will explore the impact that deforestation on the environment and I will also look at the actions that are being taken to prevent deforestation. There are various reasons why deforestation is occurring despite its negative effects on the environment. Deforestation can cause very serious environmental problems such as climate change, flooding, loss of habitats as well as others.

Even with advanced technology at our fingertips, there is the potential for errors which could lead to oil spills. If a spill occurred in this region, the effects could be detrimental to the ocean. Oil and gas industries have plenty of experience and history of preventing oil spills, but they have “little experience in containing and cleaning up oil spills” (“Oil”). With the possibility of polluting the water, the plan for Arctic drilling loses the votes of all environmentalists, a group that is not to be trifled with. If authorization to drill in this region relied upon the approval of the environmentalists, it could be nearly impossible because of their strong lobbying power. The drilling is also viewed as a diversion to the country’s real dilemma, which is its disproportionately high rate of oil use. Americans guzzle up over twenty-five percent of the world’s total oil consumption. The United States should be working on making vehicles more fuel efficient so that a gallon of oil goes a long way rather than sucking the earth dry of all its oil. This fact, by itself, is seen as a more pertinent problem on which the country should focus instead of increasing available production. Another reason against the drilling in the Arctic region is that, even if the drilling is approved, there may not be as large yield as expected. All the statistics about how much

With open arctic water, a Northwest passage through the arctic may be a shorter route for commercial ships . More dangerously, many companies, and countries are eager to exploit the resources that are now becoming accessible by the loss of ice in the arctic. Therefore, these changes may provide economic benefits to countries (particularly Canada), corporations, and even indigenous communities in the Arctic. However, all this activity raises the very real risk of environmental degradation and disaster..

Clearcutting is the custom of cutting down a large group of trees in one area and then growing new trees in their place. Clearcutting has the most impact on the aquatic cycle. It can also intensify the danger of flooding. Tree roots trap the topsoil and when a tree is cut down it allows the topsoil to run off into streams and/or rivers. This also allows streams and rivers to heat up, which allows algae and bacteria to grow. This in turn with the temperature increasing, will destroy the fish and other inhabitants in the stream or river. Clearcutting doesn’t just affect rivers and streams it also disturbs the habitat of the animals that live there. Some animals must move to other parts of the forest, which could be good or bad. It just

From 1990 to 2005, deforestation, or the removal of trees, was happening at an average rate of 13 million hectares (32.11 million acres) per year (Hope 247). In many ways, deforestation has been the reason for great economic success which turns people on to the idea even more. Deforestation is an essential element in promoting and encouraging developmental growth. Some places around the world may feel obligated to resort to deforestation due to population increases around the world. The concept of deforestation may seem to have a positive impact on society, but many people fail to consider the importance of replanting the trees that were harvested and removed. Deforestation mainly affects North and South America, but because of the Transamazon

Since the industry promises a bright future for America to become energy independence, continuous request for lease extension contracts have been made to the government by the oil companies that see the major economic gain from the drilling activities. Compared to other alternative energy such as fracking, Arctic drilling possesses risky and dangerous threats. In this paper, I will present the arguments regarding the disruption of environments, the habitat for the wildlife in the Arctic and also the health consequences for the local people due to the demand from the oil drilling industry. From there, I would discuss why the government should shift the investments made for this industry to another industry that can provide a cleaner alternative energy.

Deforestation is one of the most significant issues of our time; considerable measures must be taken to prevent further pillaging of our unique forest resource.

Nowadays deforestation is the one of the most important and controversial environmental issues in the world. Deforestation is cutting down, clearing away or burning trees or forests. Particularly tropical rainforests are the most waning type of forests because of its location in developing countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, India, central African countries and Brazil. Deforestation rate in those regions is high enough to worry about, because of large economic potential of forest areas. As the result of causes such as agriculture land expansion, logging for timber, fire blazing and settling infrastructure there might be serious impacts in future. For instance, extinction of endemic species of animals and plants which will be

Environmental issues affect every life on this planet from the smallest parasite to the human race. There are many resources that humans and animal needs to survive; some of the most obvious resources come from the forests. Forests make up a large percentage of the globe. The forests have global implications not just on life but on the quality of it. Trees improve the quality of the air that species breath, determine rainfall and replenish the atmosphere. The wood from the forests are used everyday form many useful resources. Moreover, thinning the forests increases the amount of available light, nutrients and water for the remaining trees. Deforestation (forest thinning) is one of the most

Deforestation is a major global problem with serious consequences to the planet. These consequences have a negative effect on the climate, biodiversity, the atmosphere and threatens the cultural and physical survival of life. Deforestation is the permanent destruction of indigenous forests and woodlands. It has resulted in the reduction of indigenous forests to four-fifths of their pre-agricultural area, so that now indigenous forests cover only 21% of the earth's land surface. The world Resources Institute regards deforestation as one of the worlds most pressing land use problem.