Essays on Environmentalism

Abstract

The most crucial goal that has been targeted in all research studies in the past few years has been toward prevention of problems. The scientific method is a stringent and proven procedure, which can be used to determine the most probable evidence to back up an environmental phenomenon. The proposition is usually made in a cause-and-effect phenomenon. Such a proposition is known as a ‘hypothesis’. The method used for testing the hypothesis is termed ‘experimentation’. This procedure is comprised of five elementary and significant steps. The most salient aspect that renders the scientific methods most popular is the fact ...

Introduction

Are humans threatening the survival of our planet by disrupting the ecosystem? Marvin Gaye and the public believed this to be the case in the 1960’s and 1970’s when the modern Green Movement first began. Gaye sang “Poison is in the wind that blows from the north and south and east. Radiation underground and in the sky, animals and birds live near by all die. What about this crowded land, how much more abuse from man can we stand?” . Greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, ocean poisoning, topsoil depletion, food chain poisoning, acid rain, pollution along with demands ...

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The current environmental regulatory regime led to widespread dissatisfaction. This is because the centralized command-and-control environmental regulation does not offer a reliable method for determining the optimal amount of pollution or finding the most efficient means of achieving the desired pollution level. This has resulted in various reform proposals and policy changes to increase environmental quality. One of the proposed reforms includes abandoning most of federal environmental regulation and returning to the common law environmentalism. This proposal has however received harsh criticism from most stakeholders in the environment sector who believe that the failure of state common law is ...

Toulmin Model Argument about the Environment: What specific action(s) should Christians take regarding the environment and its preservation or restoration?

Customer Date As the environmental crisis has been reached a considerable scale and raising apocalyptic concerns in the Christian community, the issue of being environmental and adopting an acceptable approach towards our planet becomes increasingly relevant in ethical and theological discourses. The biblical underpinning for co-called creation care drives Christians at the question of whether they should try to influence the condition of the global environment and, if yes, what action they could take for the preservation or ...

Environmentalism ought to be examined in a philosophical context to develop an understanding of the different factors at play and even the viability of some strategies of environmentalism. The issue of public land leased to coal mining companies by the Department of Interior provides a perfect case scenario to explore the philosophical aspects of this issue with an emphasis on the factors that are at play in a tussle. A lawsuit has been filed against the Department of Interior because it leases public land to coal mining companies despite the well-documented evidence that coal mining is the world’s ...

Environmental Sustainability and Its Potential Influence on Business in the Netherlands and China

In this paper, I will first describe the background of Dutch environmental legislation, making references to the historical reasons for its development. Then I will do the same activity for the current Chinese environmental laws, also referring to its historical issues. Next, I will compare key aspects of both policies and draw conclusions as to their effects on business and country growth.

The Netherlands

Jamison, Eyerman, Cramer, & Læssøe (1990, p. 121) indicate that the history of environmentalism in the Netherlands is very much interconnected with international developments since the 1960s. As such, the new environmentalist movement has significantly influenced ...

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Jenny Price article entitled “Remaking American Environmentalism: On the Banks of the L.A. River” mentioned that since 2000, environmentalist groups started committing to bring the L.A. River back to life. The revival project is rather an unrealistic but a project which has the full passion of the brave and unfettered fighting spirits of environmentalists. It is what Jenny Price mentioned as the future American Environmentalism, which is taking root on the banks of the L.A. River. It is environmentalism that they have started and wanted to be continued. Price narrated that in the 1960s to 70s, their generation’s ...

Tencent Holdings:

Company Background: Following is the company background of Tencent (About Tencent, 2016). 1. Brief company description: Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese company which is publicly owned and has subsidiaries. Its subsidiaries provide Internet and mobile phone value-added services and operate online advertising services in China. Many services of Tencent's holding include social networks, web portals, e-commerce, and multiplayer online games. Tencent holdings run one of the largest web portals in China, QQ.com and operate the well-known instant messenger Tencent QQ (In.reuters.com, 2016).

SWOT analysis of Tencent

Strength of Tencent Strength based on platform: Tencent is one of the oldest Internet corporations in ...

"Earth First! The Politics of Radical Environmentalism by Chris Manes” shows that radical environmentalism directed to a significant change in ideological orientations of mankind and forming a new environmental paradigm. This paradigm involves the rejection of a hierarchical view of the world. According to author people should not consider themselves as a community that manages ecosystems, but as a simple element of a whole complex with animals. This film shows that the person is not recognized as having any special privileges because he has a mind, on the contrary, human society have additional responsibilities in relation to nature. Potential ...

Introduction

Globalization has come up with major trends amongst multinational corporations and other ordinary entities. This is because the idea of doing business across different boundaries lends itself to unique and distinct issues and matters. Globalization comes with a high degree of uncertainty because it involves dealing with many issues and matters across boundaries. In the past, most nations around the world were focused on dealing with matters within a given national framework or country. However, multinational entities deal with things that spans across different nations and communities. This comes with major problems and challenges. Furthermore, ethics are subjective. They ...

Introduction

The Modern Green Movement is distinguished by its actions for combating the cataclysmic consequence of climate changes, by conducting global environmental events, conservation of natural resources, preservation of the environment, and overcoming the green gas issues. The consciousness of the people has become more intense now, yet, most of the environmental issues remain unresolved. And the chemically contaminated water and foods, genetically altered seeds, and other problems are putting the daily lives in dangerous conditions. To make matters worse, most of the natural resources dwindle, while the climate change plays havoc. The Modern Green Movement is convincing people, to ...

Islamic Environmental Ethics

Introduction The new technological developments increase mobility as well as comfort, but might have major harmful effects to the environment besides risking human health. The harmful effects of technological developments to the environment have resulted in what many have termed as environmental crises. The environmental crises are a threat to human beings as well as other living organisms. The existing evidence shows that the technical solutions have essentially not been resulting in outcomes that are satisfactory. Thus, it is critical for us to know how we should behave towards the environment. It is worth mentioning that, among the theoretical ...

Religion has been seen as disempowered and in decrease in the cutting edge world, its implications no more applicable inside the overwhelming mainstream perspective and institutional temples losing control of social life to common bodies (i.e., secularization, privatization). However religion (or secularization) may not be so static or bound together a marvel as awhile ago thought (this may be an outcome of advanced Western inclination, as, for instance, Talal Asad contends; of the (liberal) separation of social order, dividing the religious and the common, characterizing the previous as bound together conventions concerned with profound, private convictions, not handy, open issues). ...

AIR POLLUTION

Public Policy Issue: Air Pollution Since ancient times, man has struggled to find clever ideas to make life easier for the sake of progress. The struggle proved fruitful, leading to the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the 17th century and the establishment of industrialized capitals that continue to grow across the globe. Man’s continuous struggle for development is not without consequence. Populations themselves continue to grow, most notably near industrialized areas and highly urbanized areas. In the highly urbanized areas, it is affected by pollutants caused by the by-products of industrialization (outdoor air pollution) and consumer ...

A Reflection on the Green International Theory

Introduction This research aims to explore a very important question with regards to environmental stewardship. Do state and state system cause environmental problems? In assessing this issue, we take a good look at the different environmental laws. As it is, environmental issues and environmental stewardships have been universal or global. This is why it has been a major part of the study of international relations (UNEP, 2004). At the fundamental theoretical basis, many scholars posit that state and state systems to address environmental problems and concerns are weak (Wapner, 1995, p. 46). Hence, they suggest distinct government structures to replace ...

Water usage and conservation is a prime issue in engineering because it affects virtually every aspect of our lives and environment. A study of the water conservation issue in Germany will reveal in the broadest sense regarding general implication of water conservation. More so, in the specific sense, how the excessive water conservation in this highly developed country has affected the environment either positively or negatively. The concept of water conservation has been inculcated into the mindset of every average German. Hence, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, Germans save water. Troianovski reported that Germans are known to flush toilets with ...

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Identity and Space in the Wild West

America is a frontier country, it is part of our identity. As soon as settlers reached the New World they starting heading west in search of opportunities, adventure and resources. However, these people were cowboys, gold prospectors and other rugged individuals that tall tales were made of. The vast majority of Americans stayed safely home in their towns and cities and only ventured west when the foundations were laid and the trains ran on time. As a result, the narrative defining wilderness and the west was largely constructed using mythology and fantasy. This construct was also malleable, it could be ...

[University] Sustainable fashion, likewise called eco style, is a piece of the developing outline theory and pattern of practicality, the objective of which is to make a framework which can be underpinned uncertainly regarding environmentalism and social obligation. Sustainable fashion is a piece of a bigger becoming pattern of making more environment-accommodating and moral items. Whilst there is an absence of accord on the meaning of 'supportable style', issues, for example, ecological sourcing and assembling of materials, decrease of carbon foot shaped impression, and wellbeing of customers and specialists, remain just as paramount. In this manner, all exertions to make the form ...

The articles written by Comaroff and Comaroff, Conklin and Graham, Constantino, Hamond, Middleton, Richard and Ratsirarson, and West, Igoe and Brockington all provide multiple discussions on the politics of nature and culture. Conklin and Graham, and Hamond provided insights under the theme of “Noble Savages, Ecological Indians and Outsider Imaginations”. West, Igoe and Brockington, and Richard and Ratsirarson covered topics under the theme “Parks and Participation”. Comaroff and Comaroff, Middleton and Constantino emphasized more on ideas pertaining to the theme “The Politics of Extinctions and Invasions”. Conklin and Graham (695-710) noted the effects of international environmentalism on the ...

My View of the 21st Century Environmentalism

Nature and human being, and their cohabitation are ongoing debating issues during this century. These problems, however, were less topical for the civilization during a couple of previous centuries. Thousands of environmental activists have applied their best efforts to protect and preserve the ‘natural’ world, but it looks like their methods were not well developed. The 21st century conception of nature concerns with ‘green living’, energy saving, and seeking sustainable ways to protect the most endangered species all over the planet. Yet, it is not limited to this. Those responsibilities form only a small fraction of all issues we face today ...

Abstract

This paper explores the politics of environmental carbon reduction as it proves how market based instruments are hampered by political considerations, particularly in the case of reducing greenhouse gas emission. Environmental problems pressure national and global organizations, especially of climate change, Greenhouse gas emission is taken as a major solution to this problem. As the main argument, this essay proposes that market based instruments are very attractive as a solution to the environmental problems in carbon production but only in theory. In actual applications, they are usually hindered by political concerns. Politics is the baseline framework in environmental policy making and ...

Aaron Bobrow Strain discusses the white bread as a contentious food. This was the time of racial purity up to the countercultural revolution period from 1960. It’s mainly about the cultural legacy. According to Aaron Bobrow strain, our mentality on the humble can well be explained by a loaf. He says that a loaf can say what we are and similarly define how we need our society to appear alike. The white bread explains by Americans debating on what each should eat, they are brawling with challenge of immigration, gender, race and class. He explains that the process involved in making ...

The Letter was written to the editor of Medford mail tribune criticizing environmentalists. The writer is reacting to a supposed decline in exploitation of the countries resources, for the call of environmentalism. He/she tends to disagree with environmentalists labeling them as extremist in their views and actions. In a serious tone, the writer upholds his firm stand against these environmentalists. One can argue that the writer did not give the topic critical thought before submitting the letter. Despite the fact that he/she has the right to opinion, he/she should note that environmentalists are concerned with the well-being of the environment ...

Introduction

Ozzie Zehner in contrary to others makes it clear that the globe is not on an energy crisis but rather on an energy consumption crisis. The key issue as with Ozzie is on the weight that the environmentalism is given to this problem. It is more of what every individual in the use and concern of environment things about this issue and not just, how we publish and talk about it without a standing order to address this issue. Since the problem of environment has existed and seamed to advancing since then despite the various talks that appear to be ...

Abstract

This paper discusses and answers the questions related to the laws of thermodynamics, differences between potential energy and kinetic energy, and differences between overall efficiency and efficiency of a light bulb. Current knowledge regarding thermodynamics has been applied to answer these questions with help of online resources. 1) How are the laws of thermodynamics an important consideration when trying to make the most efficient mechanical machines to do work (such as create light)? A) The Zeroth law of thermodynamics is the fundamental law of physics, which suggests that if two bodies are in thermal equilibrium, and one ...

Frostburg State University (FSU) is going green by adopting some measures to reduce environmental degradation and instead help in maintaining a clean and sustainable environment. One of the ways to achieve environmental sustainability is by reducing usage of plastic water bottles. This will be done by skipping bottled water and instead water purifiers to purify tap water which students shall drink from reusable water bottles. Buying bottled water is both an expensive venture which also generates a lot of plastic waste. Plastics are non-biodegradable and they need energy consuming processes such as burning in order to reduce them to ashes ...

Introduction

The development of eco-criticism has been attributed to the increased variation in the field of literature and cultural studies. Various artists have presented issues affecting the environment, as well as providing reflections of the real life. Eco-criticism has been developed in explaining the relation of human being with the nature. In addition, it provides an illustration of the role of language, art play and language in explaining the relation between the human being and the nature. Eco-criticism is based on explaining the relationship between human beings and the nature, and it attempts to explain how modernization and globalization have ...

The development of eco-criticism has been attributed to the increased diversification in the field of literature and cultural studies. Various artists have presented issues affecting the environment, as well as providing reflections of the real life. Eco-criticism has been developed in explaining the relation of human being with the nature. In addition, it provides an illustration of the role of language, art play and language in explaining the relation between the human being and the nature. Eco-criticism is based on explaining the relationship between human beings and the nature, and it attempts to explain how modernization and globalization have ...

What is environmentalism? Well, before giving an answer to this question, it is important to revisit a story written by Sarah Orne Jewett. In the story, A White Heron, Sarah narrates of a little girl who enjoys and treasures nature as it is. She enjoys spending time in the woodland looking for their cow, and enjoys the sound of singing birds. One day, the girl meets a hunter who promises to given some money to anyone who leads him to a white heron. At first, the offer appears too tempting, but, the little girl, Sylvia, does not give in. She decides to keep ...

The purpose of this essay is to reveal knowledge on the importance of the environment and its preservation or restoration, as well as, enlighten on the role Christians should take to preserve the environment and world around us. The positive effects of preservation and restoration in the environment can hold a God-like quality; in the sense that, Christians who are taught to preserve the body, as God created it, should also be taught preservation of their surroundings. While the Bible talks of sins and its impact on people and government, the role of sin within the environment is evident, as ...

Introduction

The green parties are formally organized political parties that are based on the principals of the green politics. Such parties are associated with the principles of social justice, grassroots democracy, nonviolence and the environmentalism. They strongly believe that the issues stated above are interrelated as a founder for the world peace. They typically embrace the principles of social democratic economic policies and forming coalitions with the leftists. The green parties emerged in the middle of the 90th century. This paper shall critically and coherently discuss what led to the emergence of the green parties in Germany. The paper shall also ...

DPB Current policy:

The recent policy changes have introduced that on the DPB, mothers will be required to start looking for part time jobs when the child turns 3 and full time jobs once the child turns 6. This would enable the mother to gain financial support for her child without the help of the father of her child. But this policy was highly criticized. The Ministry of social development contested that by working for 20 hours the mother could go off the benefit. Now, assuming that they were going for a job at the current minimum wage, what the MSD is effectively ...

Theological Approaches vs. Religious Studies Approach

The global impacts that have been caused by pollution as well as other activities in the global persistence for a better economy have been devastating. It is in this regard that various communities have come to either commend or agitate against the actions by global leaders as well as rich economies to reach out for more richness. This is done when the poor countries are also pushing to make their economies much better as they strive for better livelihoods for their countrymen.

Muslims, Buddhist environmental ethics, and ecological crisis

The existing conditions can however not be blamed on any individual person. Muslims regard themselves as victims of ...

Degrading Nature: Rising Sea level in Caribbean Sea

Lately, rising sea level is among the contentious environmental issues and has become more challenging in environmentalism. Rising sea level has various impacts on both the natural environment and human populations, more especially those living on islands and the coastal regions. It is estimated that the sea level rose by about 1.8 yearly in 1950-2010, and this rate keep on increasing with time. There are a number of factors that are associated with the rising sea level. The Caribbean sea-level rise serves as a good illustration of how the sea-level rise is an environmental challenge (Gallagher, 2006). This paper seeks to ...

Arguably, religious beliefs as well as cultural beliefs of a particular community/society are difficult and complex to elaborate, since both are intertwined with religious, environmental, and cultural variables, which are far much complex on their own. This paper seeks to succinctly deliberate on the relationship between culture and religion of the western world emanating up to the year 1688. Precisely the paper will establish the effects of religion in the way people understood the world affairs affecting them, and their culture at large.

Undeniably, primary cultural and religious values share the same characteristics, as they are both passed to societal ...

There are many reasons I wish to attend George Washington University, not the least of which being my commitment to a good education and to attending a diverse university. Given my intercultural experience, I feel I would be a very good fit for the George Washington University community. Being from South Korea, and living there most of my life until very recently, I have a great deal of knowledge regarding this unique and vibrant culture. I would consider it a great honor to offer this information and knowledge about my culture to those who would be interested, furthering the collective understanding of those who ...

Surely, no other creature on the planet thinks so much about the environment as humans do. We have studied nature, taken pictures from every angle, done the surveys, mapped geographies, drew patterns and graphs and even looked for alternate resources in the outer space. Other creatures live in a habitat, migrate once in a while at most and contribute to the ecosystem in their own way. Man, on the other hand, is clearly above and beyond the scope of all biological ecosystems out there in the universe. In fact, in the past few centuries, he had been guilty of modifying, even ...