1. The most important problems of the modern (contemporary) world. The modern world‚ the world that we live in is exposed to many perils. Among the major problems are poverty‚ unemployment‚ wars‚ terrorism‚ racism‚ air pollution‚ climate change/global warming‚ and diseases. Poverty The gap between rich and poor nations is still growing. Although rich nations have provided aid and technical assistance to Third World nations‚ the developing nations face many obstacles in their drive to modernize.
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Pollution………. Our world is being polluted every day more and more with factories and cars. People are not realizing that this is hurting our world. Money won’t be able to fix that soon because money can’t grow trees or develop animals. We need to start making a real improvement in our world today; make it a better world to live in for the new generation. One way we could help is hybrid cars. One reason why these cars are better are because they have a battery pack that you can plug in and it
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Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy‚ such as noise‚ heat or light. Pollutants‚ the components of pollution‚ can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution. There are 6 (six) types of pollution that are going to be discussed in this site‚ namely air‚ water‚ noise‚ land
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to Reduce Air Pollution ASDF SCI/275 September 4‚ 2011 Kristal Davis Fadtke Using Clean Coal Technologies to Reduce Air Pollution Air pollution is of pronounced concern in the media lately. Some of the effects of air pollution include the increase of carbon in the atmosphere which contributes to the global warming effect. The effects have been felt with record temperatures on the east coast and in the Midwestern United States this summer. One major contribution to the pollution is the use
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Pollution Human beings have always caused some environmental pollution. Since prehistoric times‚ people have created waste. Like garbage today‚ this waste was either burned‚ tossed into waterways‚ buried‚ or dumped aboveground. However‚ the waste of early peoples was mostly food scraps and other substances that broke down easily by natural decay processes. Prehistoric populations were also much smaller and were spread out over large areas. As a result‚ pollution was less concentrated and caused
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Cited: "Transportation California Reports Time Spent Stuck in Traffic Congestion Increased by Nearly 50 Percent During the 1990s". Business Wire. Sept 1‚ 2000. FindArticles.com. 31 Jan. 2008. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Sept_1/ai_64991971 Williams‚ James L. "Oil Price History and Analysis" http://www.wtrg.com/prices.htm Publish by Trust for America ’s Health‚ F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America 2005 ’ http://healthyamericans.org/docs/print
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problems. Among them the pollution is one of the most popular topics. People generally don’t think of it that they injure their environment with almost every action and this carries consequences. With few exceptions they can be solved. There are several ways of the environmental pollution. The most frequent question is the air pollution because the different gases appear everywhere: in the most beautiful countries‚ in villages‚ but to the highest degree in cities. The biggest danger is caused
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RESESEARCH TOPIC: EVALUATION ON POPULATION GROWTH TO LAND POLLUTION IN DAR ES SALAAM URBAN CITY. The concept of land pollution by government is so wide and complex because it has been conceptualized differently by different actors such as organization‚ government itself and private sectors through over time. This includes responsibility of the government and non-government actors about the cause‚ effects and solution to land pollution problem. All these issues have been written and discussed
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Air travel in the 60’s was a thing of glamour and it was for the privileged few. It has come a long way since the “Jet set” days of the 60’s. Though air travel has considerably changed in terms of people who fly‚ airport infrastructure and inflight services‚ what with the economic downturn‚ cost cuts and never ending terrorism‚ flying is not what it used to be. Because of the exclusivity of air travel in the 60’s‚ tickets were very expensive‚ so only the rich and famous could afford it. In other
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June. As many as 187 hotspots were picked up by satellites on 18 June 2013‚ down to 85 on 20 June 2013. On 23 June 2013‚ 119 hotspots were detected. On 24 June 2013‚ 159 hotspots were detected in Riau‚ out of a total of 227 detected in Sumatra. An air force officer explained that the low number of hotspots detected on some days was due to heavy cloud cover‚ which prevented the satellite from detecting some of the hotspots. The Malaysia Department of Environment said that 173 hotspots were detected
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