In 2014, President Obama visited the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. While there, he read aloud these words from Chief Sitting Bull: “Let’s put our minds together to see what we can build for our children.” Today, it is the children of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who have put their minds together to help envision a safe future for themselves and who are leading an international campaign to protect their drinking water — and the drinking water of 17 million people downstream — from the threats posed by the Dakota Access oil pipeline, which would cross the Missouri River less than a mile upstream of their reservation. What you need to know about the Dakota Access pipeline protests Embed Copy Share Play Video3:08 Perhaps inspired by these young people, thousands of people, predominantly from tribes around the country, have gathered in peaceful demonstration and prayer near the pipeline construction site while the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe pursues legal options to protect itself.
NAME: Zain Choudhary DATE: April 17, 2017 455: Response #4: Partnership and Ethical Challenges In the article “What Went Wrong in Flint” by Anna Maria, she talks about a major public health issue, where the tap drinking water was contaminated with high levels of lead all over the city affecting everyone in the area. She tells a story, where families noticed that throughout the months of drinking tap water, they have noticed many negative physical changes to their body. People started to have stomach problems, losing their hair and developing rashes throughout the city.
1. CJCS fulfills the role of principal military adviser in the National Security Council system. The CJCS is the senior most military advisor to the President and in such provides that guidance directly to the President, and by participating in National Security Council Principals meetings in person. During these meetings he provides his best professional military advice to the President and the other cabinet members of the NSC. Additionally, he will send his senior most policy advisor the Joint Staff J5 to sit in on Deputies committee meetings and give his guidance at this next level down.
The Border and Transportation Security division is the biggest area of the DHS; it is in charge of securing U.S. outskirts and transportation frameworks. This directorate no more seems to work as a different division of the DHS. Rather it functions as a piece of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), which likewise handles the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate. Starting 2011, the obligations of this directorate seem, by all accounts, to be taken care of by U.S. Traditions and Border Protection, alongside different divisions and workplaces, as a component of the DHS. Different organizations working under the umbrella of the BTS incorporate the Transportation Security Administration, the Animal and Plant Health
When looking at the early twentieth-century conservation movement to help preserve the environment. Although Gifford Pinchot laid down some ground-breaking work for environment protection in the early twentieth century, Gifford had good intentions for protecting the environment. His policies he put into practice helped protect the environment for industry and entrepreneurs. Well into the twentieth century American was well into expending westwards with the idea of manifest density. This was both good and bad for the American people and the economy because this meant that resources from across American could be more easily harvested and brought back to the factories and use for industry.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission The Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC) was created as an independent agency by Congress in 1974 due to the the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. The NRC was created after World War II when military and political tension was at an all time high. This tension lead to The Cold War. The Nuclear Arms Race between the United States and Russia made nuclear energy a powerful and coveted commodity.
Since September 11, 2001, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was made as an immediate reaction to the assaults on that day. The divisions mission is to avert terrorism and upgrade security, oversee U.S. outskirts, managing movement laws, securing the internet, and guaranteeing debacle versatility. To encourage these missions, DHS has organizations, office, and dictorates that consider a far reaching and versatile division to battle fear, react to acts in an opportune way, and ensure the U.S. against all demonstrations of dread. There are investigation 's of the organizations that encourage these goals and how they bolster the aggregate DHS lawful mission.
The United States has many safeguards that help protect the American people and American assets and interests in the United States and around the world. The Department of Defense (DOD) along with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are the two main agencies that have been put in charge with the task mentioned above. Under DOD and DHS falls the U.S. Armed forces, which they have a complex structure. In order for the U.S. Armed Forces to be able to effectively protect the nation they have been divided into five different branches, these are the United States Army, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, and the United States Coast Guard.
The American preservationist movement is arguably the oldest and longest running movement in America. Although wilderness was the bane to the existence of early settlers, it quickly became an important cornerstone of American culture, even as its vast expanses began to dwindle and become unreachable to every day Americans. American was carved by hand by hard working frontiersmen out of rough cut untouched forest making wilderness the foundation of American culture. Though historically, the only natural things man had a tolerance for were those that served his needs, good lumber, tame animals with meat milk or wool, and soil easy to plow. But through a drastic shift in public view in around the turn of the 19th century, suddenly America broke thousands of years of western cultural precedent when it declared that untouched wilderness deserved to be preserved and protected.
The first major law created was the National Environmental Policies Act in 1969. This law required federal agencies to look at, and report problems within the environment impacted by human development of land, and use of resources. The problems are than reported to the public allowing for informed decisions on what environmental consequences there might be for project development. Next, came the National Forest Management Act created in 1976 that developed the idea that forests would be managed based on the land use plans of the area of the forest while also developing forest diversity, and diversity of wildlife in them. In 1973 the Endangered Species Act was created.
Every human brain is wired the same: to fear short-term threats. As a result, long-term problems such as climate change and world hunger are neglected by the U.S. until they pose a major threatーusually by then it is too late. Many scholars, understanding this disconnect, try to demonstrate the importance of investing in the future by instilling fear. Most prevalent today, it is repeated that if humans continue to release greenhouse gases, Earth will not be able to sustain human life and everyone will die. In response, people tend to comment, “not in my lifetime” or “scientists are dramatizing environmental observation for research money.”
What charity has over $78 million donated to it annually, has over 4 million supporters, and was started 80 years ago by a man named Ding Darling? The National Wildlife Federation. The National Wildlife Federation 's goal is to protect the environments that are most important to native wildlife. I believe that the National Wildlife Federation is the best and most deserving charity because they save animals lives all around the country. The National Wildlife Federation is an organization with over 4 million supporters.
1.Short Answer, no more than 2 or 3 sentences. Why are the National Parks Service, U.S Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management not concerned with the well-being and value of wildlife? The National Parks Service, U.S Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management are not very concerned with the well-being of wildlife because they come from a anthropocentric point of view. Although the National Parks land is set aside for human enjoyment and recreation, National Forests and Natural Resources Lands are often used for exploitation of resources for human demands.
The Earth Liberation front have proven themselves to be a radicalized single issue group in the film “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” with the frustration by the inability to accomplish the goals of saving the environment. While the intentions are good at heart the way it is the peaceful protests turned violent led to the numerous acts of arson and vandalism have struck fear in many people. Although for the most part these arsons were non violent towards people, they were directly responsible for the incidents of property destruction leading to economic sabotage and eventually could lead to acts of terror on individuals who destruct the environment.
As the founder of the Envirothon program, the Pennsylvania Envirothon has made great strides to ensure that the program has maintained a high level of integrity and transparency for each and every participant, coach, partner, and volunteer. The Pennsylvania Envirothon Board of Directors is requesting the National Conservation Foundation consider the following concerns relating to the NCF-Envirothon program. Traditionally the teams’ written exams are returned at the end of the competition allowing them the opportunity to see where they made their mistakes, which is a key part of learning.
