The lack of sustainability and irresponsibility, that emanate from Grasshopper Generation, will not only make the economic and environmental problems unbearable, will also tightly constrict everything in the life, which will lead to limit the ability for development because of the domination of financial debts and the constriction of ecological debts. The world is entering a new era “Energy-Climate Era” due to human activities that associated with their trends, which led the global crowded, global warming, and global flattening to converge. The global crowding may gave birth to unmanageable problem unless something is dynamically done. At first, the world population is expanding rapidly. According to statistics, there are 6.7 billion people sharing the planet. In next 43 years by 2053, there will be more than nine million people on the planet, which about 40% to 45% increase. On the one hand, this growth of world population is occurring in smaller cities. Therefore, the majority of the world population will be living in smaller cities. Consequently, the number of smaller citi...
The environment and the health of the surrounding population go hand in hand. The Environmental Protection Agency takes on this ever so important mission of protecting them both. The mission statement of the EPA states, “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Small Business Programs is to support the protection of human health and the environment by advocating and advancing the business, regulatory, and environmental compliance concerns of small and socio-economically disadvantaged businesses, and minority academic institutions (US Enviromental Protection Agency, 2010).” The impact of its mission can be defined clearly as it examines the impact of contamination in the air, the water, and the land on human health.
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Earth’s population is increasing, and areas which are already home to millions are continuing to expand. As these cities continue to grow, when the population reaches a certain point it is referred to as a megacity, a megacity is a metropolitan area with a total population of 10 million plus. These megacities are so large that they are becoming out of control settlements, cities like Los Angeles and Tokyo are being forced to expand upwards due to having to accommodate for the thriving population. These cities are also faced with the issue of not having enough resources such as food and water to support the demand required. With megacities rampant growth with it bring a decline in the quality of life, to prevent this from getting worse laws are needed to be placed which is able to limit the population and physical boundaries.
“We are forced, for the first time, to understand that we are truly a titanic force, capable of affecting and altering the operation of the planetary whole” (McKibben 501). This place called home is being destroyed; the damage seems irreversible. What is the point in even trying to change decades of wasted water, carbon dioxide emissions, and filled dumps? Why even try to change? Environmentalists have been sending out an “SOS” for quite a while now. There’s no ship this time though, it is our planet that is in need. It is time to “save our planet”; an “SOP” is in order. It is easy to think that one person’s efforts are pointless in the scheme of things, but maybe not. Maybe it the impossible can be done; maybe the damage can be reversed and this planet will last as long as it needs to. Saving the planet on an individual level is worth the effort.
Recently, global attention has been drawn to the fact that world’s population has been urbanized, triggering them to move from a rural area to an urban society. Urbanization is defined as the process by which rural areas become developed and urbanized as a result of economic development and industrialization (Naab et al., 2013). In this case, urbanization will cause the shift of a number of population from a rural area to an urban area, which leads to an increment in the number of urban society in that particular area. According to United Nations (2008), the number of urban population will be doubled and increases from 6.7 billion to 9.2 billion between 2007 and 2050. In short, global urbanization causes a rise in the number of population in developed countries from 63% to 85% (GHEC, 2007). Available statistics show that current world’s population has reached 7 billion and will keep increasing, where more than 50% of global population reside in urban areas (Wu, 2014).
Do you want to live on an Earth even more polluted and trashed than it is now? The planet is covered in waste and landfills. This, in part, is due to a lack of recycling by many of the households that are in a place to do so. Out of the total 29 million bottles of water that Americans buy every year, a mere 13 percent of those bottles are recycled. By recycling plastics like water bottles, cardboard, and paper, we can reduce the waste and pollution that currently plagues this ailing planet. Recycling, by its simplest definition, is turning trash or garbage into usable materials. You should start recycling and add to the group of people trying to help the planet. By doing this, you are contributing to a
For quite some time, life on earth has been nothing but peaches and cream for several people and because of people who live a non-sustainable life, it has left others with an indistinct outlook on earth’s future. Sustainability to me is doing things that will help prevent harmful things from happening to the environment now and in the future. With the support of the sustainability and more quality ways of living, the Earth Charter is gradually introduced. Through key research I will explain what the Earth Charter is and why it was founded, describe one of its four parts along with the goals and overarching philosophy, and share the impact it has on my life now and in the future.
If you could change one thing to make the world a better place, what would it be? Would you trade in your SUV for a hybrid? Or something simpler, like changing all of the lights in your house to energy efficient ones? Or would you start to recycle everything you possibly could? Well, all of these things are great ways to become an eco-friendly person. In my opinion, it is most important to stop damaging the ozone layer. Right now there are still hundreds of thousands of cars on the road that don’t exactly help the earth’s condition, many other things that emit toxins into the air, and that needs to change. We can do this if we lessen the amount of harmful gases we let off when we use everyday appliances.
An increase in human population can influence our economy. Some of the factors that are affected are unemployment, poverty and the restriction of economic expansion. When the population increases, the cost of health, education, and other areas of urban growth are affected. Unempl...
ATTENTION GETTER: Every day, I see the effects of pollution. From the trash that’s thrown into bushes to the murky lakes to the smog-filled skies, these are examples of the negative human impact on the environment.
food and oxygen if the sources are gone? Not much is done about our destructive
But with this the city of Knoxville have organized the Tennessee Growth Policy Act in the recent years . But urban sprawl first saw major accumulation in the 1920’s , but since then the population has quadrupled in size since then according to experts . The constant desire for land was a constant issue for countries even for small countries as small as England , which it’s countryside will be completely eaten up by the year 2100 . But with the negative impacts let’s talk about the positive impact that urbanization can bring , first and foremost it can bring bigger and larger cities . With the constant building and amount of resources being used , new companies will emerge creating new jobs and fundamentally changing the economy . Even though the US will be making any large-scale cites right now , urbanization creates more problems than benefits . Urbanization is happening and it’s doing so at an alarming rate , urbanization is destroying the environment and with the growing population it’s getting more and more difficult for nature to grow back . In order to limit urbanization we must first , limit the number of square feet for each city
Planet Earth is the only home people have ever known ,but people cannot stay on it forever because due to the loss of biodiversity , pollution , deforestation and the rising of the temperature caused by people .the good news is that people are in a new space race . Its believed that by the mid 2030’s human can orbit , live and occupy other planets safely .
Is it right that future generations, who have committed no crimes, be forced to live in a contaminated environment with freshwater depletion, polluted air, global warming and biodiversity reduction just because our present generation has caused the damage? Should our future children be ensured an ecologically healthy environment? I think they should. I strongly believe that protecting the environment is extremely important. We are all part of the environment; Earth is what we all share in common. It is our home and we are obliged to preserve it. As someone who is aware, who cares and who is concerned, I’d like to help you understand why protecting our environment is vital. I believe that protecting the environment is essential for healthy living, in creating a healthful environment for our future generation and last but not least, the Earth is our one and only home.
Everday we hear more bad news about our planet. Reports tell us that wildlife and forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Newscasts give the latest word on how quickly earth is losing its protective shirld and warming up. Newspapers lament the pollution of our air, water, and soil. What can we do in the face of such widespread gloom?