The Los Angeles Basin is a plain that lies between the Pacific Ocean and mountains to the north and east. During the summer, the sunny climate produces a layer of warm, dry air at upper elevations. Southern California counties are where almost 15 million people reside. South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is a governmental organization established in 1977 to deal with the historically poor air quality in the area surrounding Los Angeles. Air pollution injures organisms, reduces visibility, and attacks and corrodes materials such as metals, plastics, rubber, and fabrics. The respiratory tracts of animals, including humans, are particularly harmed by air pollutants, which worsen existing medical conditions such as chronic lung disease, pneumonia, and cardiovascular problems. Discussed in our paper will be several key points that will highlight very important details in regards to the efforts to reduce ozone in Southern California. Topics to be discussed are; described the historical development of the issue, the stakeholder’s involvement in the issue, and the long term effects of the problem, the responsibilities that arise from the ethical position and try to find a solution to this major problem.…
pollution which is one of the most dangerous problem and health hazard presently facing the…
“Ethics is the study of the choices people make regarding right and wrong” (Ruggiero, 2008). Environmental ethics, it is more of a study about moral relationships of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its nonhuman contents. Humans have been sharing our lives with nature for many of years; we have to make many ethical decisions with respect to the environment everyday. We have been concentrating on finding ways and ideas to make our lives easier. Over time we have forgotten to take in the immoral consideration of what we might be doing to our environment itself. In the past, future and even present, there have been many controversial issues on environmental ethics that need to be answered. There are environmental issues affecting our world today such as deforestation and pollution. These problems have even begun to affect us at a global scale and not only have we put ourselves in grave peril but we have also managed to endanger every other species that exist on earth. As noted by Yamamoto (2001), “In Buddhism, human life, and other forms of life are regarded as being of the same matter. Therefore, since they are always related to living things, Buddhism regards environmental problems as essentially an issue of ethics.”…
Pollution happens absolutely everywhere, every single second of the day, everywhere on earth. It happens in many city, many town, or many state. You can find pollution in cars, home electronics, personal hygiene products, natural disasters, and even your own home. Pollution is poison for anything that lives and breathes; it poisons water, air, land, humans, and animals, so it cannot to be taken lightly. As a law people should take more care of their surroundings and try harder to preserve the world we live in, even if it is inconvenient to us. Because if we don’t save ourselves, who will?…
As Beijing has rapidly grown from a population of four million in 1949 to 11.6 million in 2004 so has the air pollution (Xiangde, Xie, Ding, & Bian 2005). The main cause for this rapid growth is economic investments and industrialization (Xiangde, et.al, 2005). As industrialization and urbanization continue to increase, so does the number of people in the area. In addition urban construction has also continued to rapidly grow (Xiangde, 2005). This has increased from 2.9 million m2 to 70 million m2 in less than forty years (Xiangde, et.al, 2005).…
What the main issue is less developed countries, they do not have the force to stop the amount of pollution let into their environment ether because the size of the country or the lack of law officials in their countries. Therefore the people who own companies in those countries are able to illegally dispose of their materials and this is causing great environmental problems.…
Note: The Cedar River Watershed referred to in these web pages consists of the upper two-thirds of the hydrologic watershed, which is almost entirely under City of Seattle ownership. The lower third of the watershed, downstream of Landsburg, is largely under private ownership in unincorporated King County.…
Puget Sound Partnership Reports that The Washington State Legislature included several priority items in the 2010 Supplemental Budget which are intended to support restorative efforts of the environment.…
Pollution is an important factor to our lives. It involves our society and all other animals. Pollution is gradually destroying our planet and is gradually killing ourselves too. Like air pollution, smog and acid rain is a killer to all of us. It destroys marine life, our own health and destroys historical monuments and statues.…
Define the following environmental schools of ethics — anthropocentric, biocentric, and deep ecology (also referred to as ecocentric)…
Environmental Ethics is a fairly new topic that is being brought out to the world’s population but has no true definition of what it really is. Environmental ethics is more than just a singular thought or action, in fact it has many sides to it that encompass our everyday life from religion to politics that shape our minds into what is right and what is wrong. There are critical issues from today’s and future generations that needs to be factored into this in order to come to a true conclusion of what environmental ethics is. The environment is a ever changing being that effects every single person on the planet directly, it’s constant shifting should be a concern to everyone of its inhabitants, which is why Environmental ethics needs to be strongly defined and brought into every major issue the world is currently dealing with. In attempt to define environmental ethics, this essay with break down and analyze past present and future activities that will constantly shift the idea of Environmental ethics.…
Overview of issues arising out of the threats to the environment posed by technological advances which put into question man’s relationship with the environment and the environment’s moral status, eg: the preservation of endangered species, the conservation of natural habitats, overfishing, deforestation, depletion of ozone layer, pollution from machines and cars, greater negative effects on world’s poor than those who are rich (80% of resources controlled by 20%).…
“Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its nonhuman contents” (Brennan, 1). We as human beings depend on our surrounding environments in order thrive, and so it is necessary to make choices on how to keep our environment healthy. With the advancement of technology and the global economy, our lifestyles have shifted from a purely agricultural society and we face the difficulties in protecting our environment while also catering to our advancing society. Some issues that have stirred controversial debate for many years now is deforestation, the use of chemicals on our crops and global warming. The opposing dynamics that play into these problems leaves the question, “Is it ethical?” unresolved.…
Pollution disturbs our ecosystem and the balance in the environment. With modernization and development in our lives pollution has reached its peak; giving rise to global warming and human illness.…
The biggest cause of pollution is human consciousness not to protect the environment especially among young people. Many people think that what they do is too small; they are not really harming the environment. Some others believe that environmental protection is the responsibility of the state and the government. In developed countries, people are educated about protecting the environment and the ideas of living green and clean. In contrast, some countries such as Vietnam, people still throw garbage in the streets and other public areas.…