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    charged with creating the specific standards and regulations that states and large companies must adhere to. One agency in particular, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), implements and enforces some of these standards “to protect human health and the environment”(US Environmental, 2015). The EPA deals with a lot of pollution regulations in regards to automobile emissions, nuclear materials, and harmful substances in products. They make sure that these regulations are based on the most recent

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    Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, human activities have had an undeniable impact on the environment. The destruction of the environment has far-reaching consequences, and there is little that has been done to help improve, not just maintain, the environment. As seen in the degradation of our soil, air quality, and water availability, current human behavior causes a decline in the earth's health, and current environmental protections are few and far between. Soil quality is currently declining

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    Libby Kaiser Haugen Honors English, Period 4 January 25, 2016 Human Lack of Respect for the Environment Littering and how it negatively impacts the planet The Great Pacific Garbage Patch More than six million tons of garbage finds it’s way into the oceans. Due to the currents, the garbage ends up in two different locations. Several hundred miles off the coast of Japan lies the Western Garbage Patch, and close to California lies the second patch, known as the Eastern Garbage Patch. Together these

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    How Humans effect the environment? Climate change is one of the biggest problems the whole world is collectively facing. Even though climate change is partially caused by the natural cycles of Earth, humans I think are still a major part of it and I think that we can do more to protect the environment that we live in. Climate change happens when temperatures increase dramatically. When climate change causes temperature rises many environmental problems can occur here on earth. Temperatures rising

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    How Humans effect the environment? Climate change is one of the biggest problems the whole world is collectively facing. Even though climate change is partially caused by the natural cycles of Earth, humans I think are still a major part of it and I think that we can do more to protect the environment that we live in. Climate change happens when temperatures increase dramatically. When climate change causes temperature rises many environmental problems can occur here on earth . Temperatures rising

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    stimuli. In the environment we live in, there are thousands or millions of stimuli. Human cognition system also has a number of highly sensitive perception mechanisms that identify and characterize stimuli from its environment. However, humans use the concept of concentration and attention to perceive only significant stimuli from their environment. In this context, it is of great importance to define attention. Attention refers to the process of focusing or concentrating one or more human perception

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    Metabolism is basically defined as the maintenance of the composition of the body’s internal environment. This internal environment refers to “the composition of the fluid that bathes the cells.”(Josef, 2015) Having a constant internal environment is vital for proper functioning of the body in general. Examples of such stable environments required by the body include the maintenance of stable fluid volume, osmolarity, ion composition, temperature, glucose level, calcium and concentration of hydrogen

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    Are they safe for the environment and human consumption? A genetically modified crop is a plant whose D.N.A has been altered through genetic en-gineering methods in order to introduce a new trait to a plant species not already in the plants original building block. (GMO) is bad for the environment and puts human health at risk. Introduction Due to climate change and overpopulation foods have been introduce into the global marketplace that has been genetically modified by altering the plants original

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    Scott Fowler BIOL 270 Capstone Paper 4/25/16 Human Health and the Environment: GMOs Introduction: What is the issue? What is a GMO? If you were to ask your average person on the street, they would probably tell you that they know they’re bad, but don’t know what they are. Many people know it has something to do with “genetics” or “modification,” but what sort of genetics? And how or why are these things being modified? Put simply, GMO is an acronym for Genetically Modified Organism. GMO and genetically

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    Human Nature How has the workplace environment treated people? Has it been life-changing to know the day will be amazing or to feel as though working like a dog and getting nowhere? Every human must go to work to make money and provide for their family. If not, they will not live a happy, successful life. Their kids will be miserable as they may not have the luxury of clean clothes and food to feed their infinite hunger. Millions of people have jobs, but may not feel valued or excited to go

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