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Title: Environmental Problems


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Environmental Problems
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Relatively localized pollution
  • Air
  • Water
  • Acid rain
  • Hazardous waste
  • http//www.hud.gov/offices/cio/emaps/index.cfm

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Global
  • Biodepletion
  • Ecologist Norman Myers We seem set to eliminate
    between one-third and two-thirds of Earth's
    species, plus a similar proportion of subspecies.
    It will be the biggest extinction spasm since the
    demise of the dinosaurs and associated creatures
    65 million years ago. The result a massive
    draining of the planetary gene pool.
    http//www.sdearthtimes.com/et0494/et0494s0.html
  • Ozone depletion http//www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/scie
    nce/process.html
  • Global climate change (greenhouse effect)
  • http//www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_wa
    rming/page.cfm?pageID1545
  • http//www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_wa
    rming/index.cfm?pageID27

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Greenhouse effect
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Scientific uncertainty?
  • problems associated with both ozone depletion
    and global warming are largely theoretical and,
    therefore, uncertain. (Heiner 133)
  • Global warming is real and underway. (Union of
    Concerned Scientists)
  • Skeptics have interests http//www.ucsusa.org/glo
    bal_environment/global_warming/page.cfm?pageID499

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Global temperature trends
http//www.grida.no/climate/vital/17.htm
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Structural causes
  • Mass production based on fossil fuels
  • Wasteful consumption
  • Logic of the market system (capitalism) vs. logic
    of nature (see Commoner, 1992)

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Logic of commodity production
raw materials
production
consumption
waste
energy
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Logic of nature
consumption
metabolism
photosynthesis
death/decay
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Environmental problems
  • Who pays?

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Example the Prestige
  • Oil tanker sunk off coast of Spain Nov. 2002
  • Bahamian flagged, Liberian registered, Greek
    managed, for Russian company based in Switzerland
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