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This documentary focuses on the main contributors of global climate change in three parts. In part one, the documentary deals with coal and electricity. It shows how mountain-top removal is ruining the mountains in West Virginia and how it affects the health of residents in the area. In this section, the documentary also addresses the issues of coal mining in China, including large emissions of greenhouse gases and smog. In part two, the documentary concentrates on oil and cars. It explains how oil has led to corruption and large environmental impacts. Some of the environmental impacts include oil spills in large bodies of water and gas flares in the Niger Delta. The documentary ties in how urban sprawl impacts the use of vehicles and the amount …show more content…

In lecture, the topic of climate change was discussed, as well as its effects on the environment. Climate change occurs with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and leads to an increase in global temperature. This global increase can cause rising sea levels, altered rainfall patterns, and increases in droughts, fires, and floods. The main theme for the film is activism, which is similar to a topic discussed in class. In class, discussions were held about how humans can respond to climate change. One of the options was mitigation which means people will try to stop/prevent any further increases in global temperature. Mitigation options include consuming fewer fossil fuels and sequestering carbon. The documentary also pertains to coal. Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel. One method of coal mining includes mountain-top removal, where explosives are used to remove mountaintops and extract coal. Mountain-top removal has several environmental impacts including acid drainage and deforestation. In lecture, there was a short video about the damage coal ash has caused to the town, Kingston, Tennessee. This is similar to the story about West Virginia. In a rural town in West Virginia, mountaintop removal occurred and led to soot disposal leaking into water supplies and contaminating the drinking

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This chapter also discusses funding for the Global South against the changing climate, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and other NGOs. Chapter seven discusses the complications with trying to put clean energy systems; dams, solar energy, etc. into the jungle because of the industrious changes that would be needed for the land. At the same time, trying to go against these new clean energy sources can be dangerous because it can get you killed by not the environment but the people who own the business. When it comes to clean energy, the politics are more dangerous than the environment changing. Kozloff states in the epilogue “as climate change intensifies it is spurring tremendous social conflict,” (174).

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Mountaintop removal mining is a complex issue while being totally destructive in almost every aspect. The coal mined does not justify destroying mountains that formed nearly 480 million years and then completing artificial reclamation that cannot replace or due justice for what was lost during the destruction. The monetary gain from mining does not compensate for the destruction and the health effects of the environment and people. Massey Energy is inadvertently influencing the deterioration of the local lives, and treating them as a lesser people because a greater amount of people are being benefited from the mining (Holcomb).

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Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything (2015) film provides a real world, visual illustration of the repercussions that can occur do to the lust for growth in society. Shot over 211 days this film conveys the severity of the issue of climate change. The primary forms of productivity in a society as discussed by Krugman are derived from human capital, physical capital, technological advancements, and debatably most important: natural resources. The film This Changes Everything exhibits the need for natural resources and how crucial they are for a society to grow and sustain a level of growth.

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By the year 2025 100% of our nation's power will come either directly from the sun or from clean renewable resources like wind and geothermal or fusion. We commit the United States to this endeavor because we choose to take responsibility for the future of this magnificent planet we share with all the great nations of the earth. The earth's climate is undeniably changing at an unprecedented rate, and the rate and extent of this change will affect us all, and will cause—and is already causing—extreme hardship on those least able to adapt. There is also no doubt that human activity is responsible for this rapid rate of climate

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This article has very effective means of making the reader understand what the main focus of the Authors was. One of the reasons that this editorial is effective is for the reason that Hochman and Metzger both inform the reader that the future generations of the planet are endangered if people don’t start taking steps to prevent what can be stopped now and that is global warming. The writers also bring up the fact that the solution to the problem is already discovered and how it can be implemented into our daily lives. The Authors say: “The cure for global warming is well-known.

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With the growing number of humans and animal life, comes the increasing number of homes, buildings, crops, transportation, etc. As the need for these essential items rise, so does its concerning effects on our world due to climate change. According to Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala’s article, “A Plan to Keep Carbon on Check,” due to human activities, we the people are the cause for the abundance amount of carbon dioxide released into the air annually (2006). Socolow and Pacala, go on to discuss that at the rate emissions are growing our world is in trouble and need to act now. By making changes and committing to fixing the next 50 years, we can cut our emissions in half over that time (Pacala and Socolow, 2006).

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One such impoundment in West Virginia holds 200 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge and sits a mere 400 feet upslope from an elementary school (Fabricant). In 2000, a coal sludge dam operated by Massey Energy failed, releasing close to 300 million gallons of coal waste, an event which the EPA referred to at the time as the worst environmental disaster of the Southeast (Culture Change). In addition to impacting the environment, mountaintop removal also affects the residents of coal communities. According to Bryan T. McNeil, author of Combating Mountaintop Removal, coal communities face wide-ranging problems attributed to the coal industry including, “coal dust blanketing homes, overloaded coal trucks barreling down narrow, winding mountain roads; floods caused by increased runoff from strip mines; acid water

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In “The Grapes of Wrath”, John Steinbeck developed Ma Joad as the matriarchal hero of the story. Ma Joad exhibited her matriarchal heroism in many ways throughout the story. She endowed people with hope, took on leadership roles, and kept the family bonded together. As the Joad family drove towards California with the Wilsons.

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Climate Change is one of the most unsettling problems mankind faces today. It leaves an impact on every single living thing, on every continent, no matter the privilege. Long term investment must be used to change the world. People must do more than just change out their light bulbs for eco-friendly ones, or drive fuel efficient cars. A choice as simple as changing our diets could reduce a human’s carbon footprint by fifty percent.

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The issue of climate change has become a common challenge for both developed and developing countries. Climate change has a visible challenge on the lives and livelihood strategy of developing nations. It has been is one of humanity’s greatest challenges and it is believed that within the next fifty (50) years, global warming will increase to the detriment of the world’s population. It is a serious threat has the potential to cripple sustainable development by adversely impacting the environment, human health, ecosystem and diversity, food production and security, and economic activity (Abafura, 2011) Climate change refers to the average temperatures and precipitation rates over an extended period of time.

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.Oil activities, unsustainable environment and the combative reactionism of women in the Niger Delta.

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Even if it was not primarily required, the actual happenings as well as the political background “dominates” the story (cf. Zerza), bringing to light the “destructive consequences” the extraction of oil has caused in the Niger Delta in reality since 1956 (cf. Madubuko). Madubuko expresses the “environmental degradation and destruction of the people 's primary means of livelihood” caused by the “leaks from oil pipelines, gas flaring and acid

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Homero Castro Ms. Cabaj English IV, 3rd period 12 February 2018 Global Warming Global Warming is affecting the entire world. The issue of global warming is important because it’s affecting everyone.

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Climate change is one of the most severe environmental challenges facing the world at present. It refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity (Kinyangi et al., 2009). Global warming shows increasing trend and is expected to bring about long term changes in weather conditions (FAO, 2008). Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen.

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Researches show that the average temperature of the planet has been changed during the last decades, as a result, many problems join with it and climate change is considered as the biggest problem around the world. Climate change is one of the results of global warming and it has so many negative disadvantage impacts on earth, including; increasing the events of natural

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