Environment Human Health
Environment & Human Health
By: Azure’ Minor
Jan. 22,2015
The things that we do on earth can affect our society as a whole. As we continue to grow our population increases which causes our daily usage to increase. As reported by the Natural Resource Defense Council, the more nonrenewable resources that we use, the less we will have in the future. This is a known fact that has been going on for sometime. So what can we do as a community or society to help to highly reduce the use of using nonrenewable resources and to help our economy become healthier? A few solutions that has already been implemented is recycling (the reduce and reuse affect), use less chemicals such as coal, or gasoline, and to educate more people about what is going on with our planet.
When did our planet create recycling? Recycling dates back to 400BC to current day. Over the centuries we have grown and matured in how to recycle. This includes how we collect rainwater to how we dispose of our bowels. During and after the World War II, the United States became more involved in recycling. Instead of constantly dumping waste into landfills or into our water source we started to make our oils and gasoline more economically safe. In our gasoline and oils we took out a chemical that killed most children and that chemical was lead. Lead was very common in homes dated before the late 70’s. It was used in paint. Most children are attracted to color and are prone to putting things into their mouths. In older homes when paint started to chip and children saw it they would pull it and put it into their mouths. This caused a lot of deaths and poisonings. The United States helped to reduce this by banning the use of lead paint in the early 80’s late 70’s (Wendy Koch USA, Today 5/18/2012). In order to inform our nation of what was happening to young children, we had to educate them. The United States communities have provided education programs that are active in the community to help establish problems such
By: Azure’ Minor
Jan. 22,2015
The things that we do on earth can affect our society as a whole. As we continue to grow our population increases which causes our daily usage to increase. As reported by the Natural Resource Defense Council, the more nonrenewable resources that we use, the less we will have in the future. This is a known fact that has been going on for sometime. So what can we do as a community or society to help to highly reduce the use of using nonrenewable resources and to help our economy become healthier? A few solutions that has already been implemented is recycling (the reduce and reuse affect), use less chemicals such as coal, or gasoline, and to educate more people about what is going on with our planet.
When did our planet create recycling? Recycling dates back to 400BC to current day. Over the centuries we have grown and matured in how to recycle. This includes how we collect rainwater to how we dispose of our bowels. During and after the World War II, the United States became more involved in recycling. Instead of constantly dumping waste into landfills or into our water source we started to make our oils and gasoline more economically safe. In our gasoline and oils we took out a chemical that killed most children and that chemical was lead. Lead was very common in homes dated before the late 70’s. It was used in paint. Most children are attracted to color and are prone to putting things into their mouths. In older homes when paint started to chip and children saw it they would pull it and put it into their mouths. This caused a lot of deaths and poisonings. The United States helped to reduce this by banning the use of lead paint in the early 80’s late 70’s (Wendy Koch USA, Today 5/18/2012). In order to inform our nation of what was happening to young children, we had to educate them. The United States communities have provided education programs that are active in the community to help establish problems such