Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrate upon themselves, a facade for the ignorance and complacency deep within. It is only after so many losses, that some may ultimately see the light. The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells, is a result of Wells’ residence at the time, a normal looking and peaceful town in Surrey. He mocks the suburban complacency of Surrey, a trait that carries over to the general populace within his novel, which is but a part of Wells’ depiction of a dystopian future. A future that seems so foreign and grim, yet so familiar to modern society; an insight into the future where the absolute rule of humanity gives way to Martian intruders.
Jesus Zaragoza Zaragoza 1 Mrs. Cross Period 6 1 April 2014 Modest Proposal It is very compiling is it not when you witness acts of wastefulness as the very same planet you live on is being destroyed by no other then those that inhabit it. As of today, our planet has an estimate of 9 billion people as of right now. As every year, our planet has more than millions of people born everyday our planet is seceding as while.
There have been many dilemmas with America with continuous problems today. In the progressive era there were many problems that we had to deal with like unsanitary meat, child labor, and voting rights for women. Those have been fixed with the Meat Inspection act of 1906, child labor laws, and the 19th amendment. Unlike those, conservation is still a problem. Conservation, the action of conserving something, in particular, can be confused with environmentalism which is the concern about and action aimed at protecting the environment.
What I can’t stand is when governments like China have negligent laws that allow for heavy pollution and environmental degradation (Rapoza). According to the Department of Health and Human Services, poor environmental quality can have detrimental effects on public health. Poor air quality is linked to early death and lung and heart problems, and contaminated water helps to spread pathogens and harmful chemicals
A biocentric worldview states that all life is equally important. Homo sapiens don’t possess the right to dominate other species just because they are rational creatures with the ability to make their own decisions. There is a delicate but complex balance that exists between all living organisms that they are wholly dependent on for their survival. There is only one Planet Earth with finite resources available to be used and it is rapidly being degraded through the presence of human-caused pollution. In fact, if human beings went extinct, the plants and animals would be much better off as the environmental contamination would become virtually non-existent.
Environmentalism is a term that has commonly been associated with the preservation and conservation of the earth (Elliot). Its main focus is on protecting animals and plants, along with using more sustainable practices with renewable, or finite, resources such as oil, wood, and water (Elliot). Although the environmental movement’s sole concern is protecting the earth, the movement does not protect its people. Environmentalism does not accommodate the health and safety of all human communities when advocating for environmental health policies. Environmental racism is a pressing issue that must be addressed alongside environmentalism, as all communities and people, regardless of race and socioeconomic status, are entitled to equal protection from
Major concerns from people in the U.S. is to stop “groundwater (aquifer) contamination by fracking chemicals, accidental chemical spills, waste disposal, air quality, the land footprint of drilling activities, pipeline placement and safety, and the amount of water used” (Rahm 2974-82), but many companies like Texas Barnett Shale company choose to ignore health affects and the contamination it causes until they are confronted. Some companies, even when confronted, deny the problem entirely because they are able to fight it within contracts or have better lawyers to fight their cases against citizens in the area who are hurt from this contamination. As hydraulic fracturing gets bigger, companies have been taking this system into other underdeveloped countries that also have Marcellus Shale living under their land. For example, Citizens in Mexico who are close to fracking sites are also seeing changes in their environment. In nearby villages, locals point to cracks in their walls and say they have never felt anything like it.
In 2009, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott published his political autobiography ‘Battlelines' where he infamously stated “of course these climatic changes had little or nothing to do with human activity.” Whilst this statement is of course laughable, it is simultaneously disturbing. Politics has failed to evolve from theocratic times of the 17th centuary. Many Australians still live in clueless opposition to the veracity of climate change. What startles me the most is that just a mere few months ago our nation was ruled by a man who was fuelling this skepticism which even despite the evidence, people sycophantically and foolishly believed.
White’s argument is that the crisis with our environment issues relies among all of us, even those who consider themselves environmentalists. Society is responsible because we are all part of the capitalism system, that none of us are willing to leave in order to truly save the environment, because that would require for us to resist work and consumption. In order to accept White’s main idea that will help us understand his main claim is that we have to understand that everyone in society is responsible for damaging the environment. Evn those who are part of envirinoment organizations are still responsible for damaging the environment.
Many of the employees keep beating around the bush with respect to their answers and defend their company, stating that all its practices are ethical and legal. He even interviews the head of Corporate Social Responsibility who acknowledges the problem and says that there is ‘no way to trace the minerals back to the mines that they come from.’ Nokia in its annual reports and on its website claims to be a market leader in Corporate Social Responsibility and Conscious Capitalism but these claims are mostly fabricated. These are simply words on a piece of paper to convince consumers that the product they’re buying is blood free and ethical when in reality this couldn’t be further from the truth. Several NGOs that were also interviewed by Poulsen confirm this fact and state that even though they’ve had the knowledge of the existence of this problem for ten years they have done more or less nothing to even take steps toward solving this problem simply because it will cost them money and diminish their
Negative ethics The presence of large companies like Royal/Dutch Shell could not be denied of its advantages and benefits to the society and local community. In economic viewed, Shell do not just provides thousands of job opportunity, but also attracted many of foreign investors to carry out their economic activity (oil production), thus creating an atmosphere of productive local economy. Despite of the excellence of Shell becoming as one of the world’s largest oil producer, there are conflicts and controversy that overlooked, which of these things not only affect the community, but, kept to a violation of human rights.
On August 25th 2013, Greenpeace (an independent global campaigning organisation that aims to expose the environmental criminal) protested against Shell, a multination petroleum company, in attempt to create an awareness of Shell’s intentions to put in to place an oil drilling plant in the Arctic, a project that could potentially endanger and destroy the environment. The intention of this essay is to discuss how culture jamming works and what its limitations are and also to perform a semiotic analysis of the Shell/Greenpeace video. Culture jamming is known as a mode of resistance to the norms and conventions of mass culture that exposes and goes against the media’s underlying power structures and ideological messages (Klien, 2002). Culture jamming
In the journal, she mentioned about social theory of Social Costs (Kapp: 1950). The theory was basically focusing on human and environmental health: damage to workers’ health, air and water pollution, depletion of animals, depletion of energy resources, soil erosion, and deforestation . The theory of Social Costs was also discussing about how capitalistic system has contributed the environmental degradation. The massive industrialization in the search for more capital and profit in some countries has indeed affected the environment, as it polluted the water, air, and soil by its waste. Fred Magdoff mentioned that the other aspect – beside economy - which will be affected by a relentless pursuit of profits in the capitalism is the environment .
The reading assignments for this week has been very educative about the environment and making it a better place for living. In this written assignment, I will examine some of the ethical issues related to population growth and their effect to the environment. Also, I will propose solutions to these problems base on the reading material available for this Unit. But before I continue, I wish to introduce us to environmental ethics and its definition which I think it is very important for us to understand so as to know our role to play in this beautiful planet. 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 non-human contents
According to Steward and Zaaiman (2014: 539) the environment is a political issue because it is a source of power, control and wealth. The understanding of this issue is related with the history of the accumulation, forced removals, exploitation, social and environmental justice, exclusion and an unequal access to and the use of environmental resources. The majority of the black population, the environment was used as an instrument which destroyed and constraints productive opportunities and livelihoods. Thus this had a negative impact on the interaction between people and the environment forcing the black population to live in overcrowded and degraded environments. This essay will discuss the eco-Marxism perspective and then analyse the industrial agriculture as an environment problem, the purpose is to look at the impact this problem has on the environment and the society as a whole.
