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Environmental Ethics
Environmental Ethics
By
John W Lewis II
Professor Niehaus
April 17, 2009
As a society, Americans have always seemed to view nature and its resources as inexhaustible. Nature is a vast store house of resources just waiting to be used. There will always be more oil; more water; more wood. Americans also seem to view nature as something to control, and overcome. When faced with a natural resource shortage, we look to science to provide a solution. Technology is seen as a solution to the environmental problems that we have created and face today. There are many things negatively affecting the environment today. Deforestation, the clear cutting of trees, is drastically changing our climate. The Amazon Rain Forest is a good example of this; rain fall patterns in Brazil have changed substantially due to clear cutting. By over grazing and participating in harmful agricultural practices, humans have also changed usable land into desert plains. We have further polluted the planet with synthetic chemicals like fertilizers and with solid wastes by dumping them into the Oceans or burying them in the land. By burning coal, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide have been released into the air. Attaching themselves to rain and snow, these pollutants fall back to earth, damaging lakes, streams, vegetation and wildlife. The culmination of these pollutants and destruction is known as the Green House Effect. Plants absorb Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere, and the wholesale destruction of the forests has resulted in less CO2 being absorbed. As a result, Carbon Dioxide is increasing in the Earth's atmosphere, causing the planet's temperature to rise. CO2 acts as an insulator, allowing the Sun's heat to reach Earth, but also preventing the heat from escaping, thus causing a "green house" effect. Though scientists have been aware of and addressing these issues for over 4 decades, the seriousness of the environment's future is just now beginning to trickle into mainstream...
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