Environment 2
Whether it be through intensified media attention, or due to the efforts of prominent scientists and other members of society, we have become increasingly aware of the detrimental effects that technological advances in industry and agriculture have on the global environment. However, pollution is growing at such a rate that the cleaning up is too slow. This slowness is partly due to the fact that the threats we face are indistinct, since they come in the form of small particles of invisible gases and radioactivity, and in part because of the cost. The cost to clean up or prevent pollution is high at the individual, governmental and corporate levels. Money isn't the only loss due to pollution. There is also the loss of visual display and great material loss as well. The visual display and material loss is the only thing that wakes up the people to make them do something. It took the publicity of the dipleating ozone layer to encourage large chemical companies to begin a gradual phase-out of these harmful substances, even though scientists already discovered the effects of CFC's and the ozone. It is said by Carl Sagan and many other scientists that ozone layer would take at least 100 years to repair itse
Although the government feels like it can't do anything to help the environment it really can. They could offer incentives for companies that can reduce pollution. They have created some car pool lanes but they could add some to more areas of the nation to encourage their usage. They could pass some regulations to increase clean up. And they could spend some valuable moneys to monitor their regulations. Another large cause of pollution is the increased amount of product usage. There are more products being consumed which increased the demand and production of these products. Also decisions that were made in the past are affecting us now. Such as automobile use versus train transit, and the manufacture of energy through the building of nuclear plants, which effect and influence our lifestyle. Thus the decisions we make today will have an effect on our children and grandchildren. So why doesn't our government do anything about "today", probably because they have other things to worry about, like our president. The challenge to make the necessary changes to improve the environment are further complicated in the following ways. First, there are conflicting viewpoints as to the role government plays to influence private industry to replace technologically damaging processes with more ecologically sound technologies. Second, to phase out current technologies is a burden many corporations are unwilling to take on. Why would they want to affect their profit margin? Third, governmental failures in policy create a situation where corporations have no incentive to clean up their act. The question is asked; "what's in it for me?"
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Approximate Word count = 1110
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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