“Risk can be identified and controlled. Therefore all industrial disasters are preventable.” Discuss. This essay discusses the apparently logical proposition that if risk can be identified and controlled‚ industrial disasters are preventable. It first examines the concepts of ‘risk’‚ ‘identification and control’‚ ‘disaster’ and ‘preventable’ before examining the nature of the industrial disaster through a systems approach; it will be shown that a disaster can be deconstructed in order to present
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The natural environmental problem is the one of the most important problem to impact our world. Some problems are very famous like “global warming” and “Marine pollution”. We usually the government determine to spend millions or billions dollars to curb environmental pollution from news. In fact‚ we can save the money because we always curb environmental pollution after we did it. The natural environmental problem was already permeated our life. We almost can find it everywhere. For example‚ in
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Natural evil one of the hardest evils to explain in the context of a traditional Judeo-Christian God due to its spontaneity and the destruction it causes. When God in his omniscient nature created the world‚ he knew there would be natural disasters and that people would suffer consequently. Assuming a morally perfect God‚ these disasters are necessary to keep the earth itself regulated. They also do not intend harm‚ people
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It has been known that special education that has been enacting on the IDEA act‚ delineates the “Least Restrictive Environment” as "to the maximum extent appropriate‚ children with disabilities‚ including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities‚ are educated with children who are not disabled‚ and special classes‚ separate schooling (IDEA 2001). With this being valid there have been a number of students with disabilities‚ who have the right to access general curriculum
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Fukushima disaster Japan is one of the most affected countries by natural disasters because of it’s geographical placement on the tectonic plates. In 2011 Japan was impacted by a monumental earthquake that caused a tsunami. This provoked the nuclear plant Fukushima Daiichi to leak radioactive material into the farm lands of Japan. Fukushima was overheating due to equipment failure‚ and loss of coolant agent. This was the result of a nuclear meltdown. It was rapidly shut down to prevent any further
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told in her essay “In the last 15 year or so‚27 – percent of the known wolf deaths have been from the railway‚and 60-percent were on the highway.Just 5-percent were natural....”. And it is just a research statistic for wolfs‚ there are lots of different kind of animals which disappear because of the civilizied world. You can easily have an idea that it is unavoidable thing that we should protect them‚if you don’t read the “Selections from Into The Wild”. When I read the Krakauer’s “Selections
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Unit 1 Lecture 1 Natural Resources: commodities existing in a natural state -which are useful to people‚ for human needs-food‚ shelter. -Copper which is used in pluming/pipes‚ electronics‚ east of phoenix‚ ray mine‚ -the demand for copper has grown in recent year Natural Resources- Commodities existing in a natural state which are useful to people. Various features of the physical env(stuff that exist in phy. env) which used to meet human needs such as clothing‚ food‚ and shelter. Since
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mercury and arsenic are most toxic and can cause multiple organ damages even when present in small amount. Although‚ these elements are necessary for soil animals as well as plants in extremely low quantities. However‚ anthropogenic activities like mining‚ smelting‚ fuel burning etc have disturbed the natural geochemical cycles of heavy metals which raises concern over their management
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great innovations such as automobiles and aircrafts and even pesticides. With these great innovations come consequences. Such as global warming as Bill Mckibben states in his essay “The Environmental Issue from Hell”. In this essay Mckibben talks about how humanity in the past century has contributed to global warming by using fuel burning vehicles and aircraft. Before Pesticides‚ farmers had a tough time keeping crops alive due to insects. With the creation of pesticides this problem went away‚ but these
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HIV AS A NATIONAL DISASTER AIDS has caused immense human suffering in the continent. The most obvious effect of this crisis has been illness and death‚ but the impact of the epidemic has certainly not been confined to the health sector; households‚ schools‚ workplaces and economies have also been badly affected. Although access to antiretroviral treatment is starting to lessen the toll of AIDS‚ fewer than half of Africans who need treatment are receiving it. The impact of AIDS will remain severe
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