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Environmentalism for the 21st Century

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Environmentalism for the 21st Century

Curated by Samantha Rowling
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment. Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and/or improvement of the natural environment, and may be referred to as a movement to control pollution. Already at this early stage in the 21st century, unique challenges and issues are associated to protecting the natural environment. This learning group is dedicated these issues and the impact of human made pollution on planet Earth.
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Discussions Discussion Nukes post-Fukushima
Alexia L, Nov. 8, 2012

Hello, I’m Alexia
I think that nuclear energy is a good choice for governments to turn to as a solution. The disaster of Japan’s nuclear power plant in Fukushima was a warning to the rest of the world about the dangers of nuclear power plants. However after the disaster the Japanese government released a report on the crisis, which declared the disaster “man-made.” The report mentioned that some safety standards were not followed which if followed, would not have caused such a big crisis. I believe that since nuclear energy is that best clean renewable energy the world has right now we should use it but with precaution until another better renewable energy can be harnessed.
In Taiwan, there are about 6 nuclear power plants and there is more than 1 undergoing construction for use in the future. We also have a potential plan for geothermal plants in the future, which is an alternate plan for renewable energy. The benefits of nuclear power outweigh the dangers of it, especially since with new technology people can decrease the dangerous factors of using nuclear energy.

Alexia L
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Discussions Discussion Health & Environment
Jocelyn Lee, Nov. 7, 2012

Hi everyone, I’m Jocelyn. I lived it Taipei, Taiwan. I’m studying at Dominican International School. In Taiwan, we have a law that you cannot simply throw the chemical waste into the river or sea, which will pollute the water, and also effect the environment, or you will need to pay some money for that. Also, people in Taiwan support recycle very well, we usually separate the trash into three main category: paper, aluminum can and glass, plastics, and others, and that’s a good thing that the people from the other country should do it too. But, there is another thing that I think the government should change, and stringent the laws. Taiwanese really love dogs, almost every family they had a dog, but, many people are not responsible for their dog’s faeces, whenever their dogs wanted to “go to the toilet”, they’ll just bring them to the street and let them “do it” there without cleaning up, that makes the environment become stinky.

Everyone is responsible for protecting the environment. We can choose to live in a healthy and comfortable environment, if we want to. Just do it!!! What are you waiting for? Take action now!

Jocelyn Lee
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Discussions Discussion Nukes post-Fukushima
Angus Hsieh, Nov. 7, 2012

Hi, I am Angus Hsieh. I think we should keep the existing nuclear power plant. You cannot just shut down the nuclear power plants because the people’s house are based on the nuclear power plants. The disaster happened at nuclear power plants in Japan is a result of the tsunami that broke the cool down machine in nuclear power plants. The protecting of the nuclear power plant is only half of the tsunami. In Japan, there are many earthquake that cause the very big tsunami. However, in Taiwan, there aren’t many disaster, only earthquakes or typhoon. In addition, the cost of the nuclear power plant is very expensive, but it can produce a big amount of energy, so unit cost is cheaper. The unit cost of wind energy is expensive and it can’t produce enough energy for Taiwan. Although safety is more important than money, you can always use money to build a safer structure to protect the nuclear power plants. In conclusion, I strongly suggest to continue using the nuclear power plants.

Angus Hsieh
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  • Kevin Lin Kevin Lin Nov. 8, 2012
    Hello Angus, I'm Kevin, also living in Taiwan; nonetheless, I don't really agree with what you're saying. First of all, yes, I do agree that nuclear power plant is the most efficient way to acquire energy nowadays. However, you are only looking at the narrow perspective, and for this I would like to point out two factors to support my idea.

    First of all, a nuclear power plant produces nuclear waste. Unlike other kinds of generators, nuclear waste can only decay after 10 000 years. Which mean in this period of time, any accidents in taking care of it could harm the environment, and secondly taking care of it requires money, which after ten thousand years, without doubt would be pretty expansive.

    The second problem of nuclear power plants is the source that it uses-Uranium. If we don’t calculate the exact amount that could be dug up, people would only have about seventy years of supply left. Which coming back to the long term plan of Nuclear power plant would not sound so optimistic
  • Kevin Lin Kevin Lin Nov. 8, 2012
    All in all, I would like to suggest people not to use nuclear power plant anymore. Unless one day in the future when some geniuses come up with a better solution for the disadvantages of nuclear energy.

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Discussions Discussion Nukes post-Fukushima
Hiro Fu, Nov. 7, 2012

Hi, my name is Hiro. I’m from Taipei, Taiwan. In Taiwan, we use mainly nuclear power, but in my opinion, nuclear power cannot be stopped. I acknowledge the dangerousness of nuclear power, especially after the disaster from our neighboring country, Japan. When people started to oppose nuclear power, a question came to me, “What next? Do we use fuel, coal, or solar power?”
If we use fuel or coal, we’re destroying the earth even faster, but on the other hand, if we make precautions and monitor the nuclear plants carefully, it may not be as lethal to the environment and the people.
You may think that we can just use wind, solar, or hydroelectric power, why use nuclear power? It is not impossible, but take Taipei for an example. Taipei is a densely populated city, it has almost 3,000,000 citizens. If we use any of those powers it would take forever to generate the energy needed even if we conserve energy. This is why I think nuclear power can’t be stopped.

Hiro Fu
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  • Marissa B-USA Marissa B-USA Nov. 11, 2012
    Hi, my name is Marissa and I live in Houston, Texas. I agree with you. Nuclear energy can be very useful, but also very dangerous. What could countries or cities depending on this energy use? Other options contaminate our world with carbon dioxide and are extremely hazardous to the human race. Nuclear power can be controlled if we use it properly and safely.
  • Sara B-USA Sara B-USA Nov. 15, 2012
    Hello, my name is Sara and I live in Houston, TX, USA. I completely agree with you, Hiro. The benefits of using nuclear energy as power outweigh the risks — in the long run, it's cheaper; if the correct measures are taken to prevent disaster, nuclear energy isn't dangerous; and large, densely-populated cities like Taipei aren't able to use other sources of renewable energy as easily as other smaller cities, so nuclear power is a great alternative! The world should convert to using more nuclear energy as a power source like Taiwan!

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Discussions Discussion Health & Environment
eva de la iglesia, Oct. 20, 2012

Hi, I’m Eve, and come to speak of the environment, this is an issue that concerns many people, especially ongs and organizations, such as Greenpeace, Green Action, Edane, etc. struggling to improve our planet, fight:
+ against deforestation
+ to prevent the extinction of many species, both animals and plants.
….
And although such organizations exist, we can all put something of interest for our environment, and help keep it with small gestures, such as recycling paper, glass, organic products .. We can also use different light bulbs, consuming organic products, indigenous and seasonal, and multiple ideas more.
What savemos of our planet, based on the environment, there is still more than a small part given the atrocities committed incuviertamente, a clear example is this video, this is not just a music video, and was prohibited Published by the images it contained and displayed to the public, completely real.
please someone can answer me? telling his opinion on the environment? thank you very much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQbLSCAeg8Q
eva de la iglesia
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  • Rose Hattaway Rose Hattaway Oct. 25, 2012
    I really like you to talk about the environment as it is a very important issue. For example, in the sea there are tons of debris and trash that pollute the marine ecosystem and destroys habitats. This means that many species, both marine, land and air, will become extinct and disappear forever.
    This is a very interesting and disturbing.
    Thanks Eve.
    Rose Hattaway

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Discussions Discussion Health & Environment
Felicia Smith, Oct. 19, 2012

Hi!
During ww2 when the petrol was rationed the health of Swedish citizens increased. Because they couldn’t use their cars they had to walk or go by bike instead, and that really increased the health of Swedish citizens. I am not saying that we should ration petrol again but we should think of that if we go back to basics (more natural exercise, ecological food etc.) it doesn’t just help the environment but our bodies as well. In a time were people die from being too fat we should really think about these easy steps to be healthier. An idea could be that instead of giving children a public transportation card or have school busses they could be given bikes to go to school with together.

Felicia Smith
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  • eva de la iglesia eva de la iglesia Oct. 20, 2012
    sorry, I meant work .fault of google translator
  • eva de la iglesia eva de la iglesia Oct. 20, 2012
    please, I can write anything in my text, to get a point in the course? I need it, thank you very much, by the way I'm Spanish, you?
  • eva de la iglesia eva de la iglesia Oct. 20, 2012
    yours seems a good idea but, if the children live too far away from school? think of winter, with rain. That would be a problem.
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Discussions Discussion Deforestation SOS
Rose Hattaway, Oct. 18, 2012

Hello, I am Hattaway.
I think talking about deforestation. I focus primarily on the Amazon although it is a very busy. Mainly I will say that in the lungs of the Earth, the Amazon contains a total of seven million hectares. According to Greenpeace, 5 acres are cleared per minute in the Amazon. The day should be about 7,200 acres per year would become 2.628 million hectares. Although the figures say that in one year only 1,323,924 hectares have been cleared without illegal parties. Reforestation comes to the point that the area could be harvested from the Amazon that is equal to the area of Spain.
These data are chilling because if echáramos accounts, we would see that soon the Amazon, at this rate, it would be like a desert. Not to mention that not supporting recovery actions logging, since it is too expensive.
Good morning, Hattaway

Rose Hattaway
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  • Larry Fofoca Larry Fofoca Dec. 1, 2012
    Hihihi hattaway
    i think your post its so interesting but you forgett who are the guiltys of these.I´think the governements of these countries,who could be reach if they choose a ecological way of development ,can do something for change the situation,they prefer the money that the cut of trees produced and ignored the deforestation,and the bad consecueces for the animal,plants and the people who lived there,in the middle of the forest and who doesn´t want be known and live in their ways.Also the people who cut the trees can spread nw deseases for the people who lived isolated and finished with these society.
    Also the deforestation can be exterminate new species and never be dixcovered,and have bad consecuences for the biodiversity….
    Eva,i think youmust read this because in Spain the deforestation are in your forests and in your mountains…
  • Julissa Mounds Julissa Mounds Dec. 2, 2012
    Hello Rose Hattaway, I'm Julissa Mounds. After reading your post I was left with one question in mind: What are we doing with the Earth? And Why? Every year lots of forests, woods, jungles and savannas are destroyed bacause of the masive tree cutting. All of this things are the Earth lungs and if we keep cutting trees we'll destroy our environment, and along with it our Earth. Many organizations like Greenpeace, Earth Action or Earth Friends are collaborating to stop this doing things like planting new trees, planning cut methods or planning irrigation methods. This may not be enough after all we've destroyed, but with a sand grain of everyone we can have a big dessert. We all can collaborate with this organizations to do their job, even we can join them, but the only objective is stop this providing each of us with a sand grain.
    Regards from Julissa.
  • Rose Hattaway Rose Hattaway Dec. 2, 2012
    Thanks for commenting. A reply, Julissa, I have to say: we are destroying the world. If instead of making movies about the end of the world and that sort of speculation, we did a salvation plan could save the planet Earth.
    We should think of what surrounds us. We should fight for our planet. The end of the world, if it exists, we are creating it. Deforestation not only itself but the whole: pollution, deforestation, oil draw-…
    Humans leave the world dry.
    We are killing our world.
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Discussions Discussion Let’s go environmentally responsible
Daisy Lo, Oct. 18, 2012

Hi! I am from Hong Kong. In such a busy city, no one has taken considerable time to think about CO2. Even now it is Autum, there is still many people having their air conditioners on… at home, at school, at work… Everyone would like to spend longer time stay awake to do their business. There is no room for them to think about the environment.

Daisy Lo
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Discussions Discussion Deforestation SOS
Jasmine J-France, Oct. 6, 2012

Good morning every one! The subject of the deforestation, is something which affects me a lot cause trees are also alive and we had to take care of this biodiversity. Let’s take an exemple , In the bresil, we cultivate of numerous bit just for fields and it’s really bad , cause trees are important We would be lacking of cO2 without them and more bit decreases more the air will be missing, and the fauna and the flora will decrease. Here in france we take really care of the bit , beacause it’s really necessary . We should make video, actions, demonstration for reduice these deforestations perms which degrade our earth.

Jasmine J-France
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Discussions Discussion Deforestation SOS
Stephanie A-USA, Oct. 5, 2012

Deforestation usually happens because large corporations need the trees to mass produce something. Deforestation takes away homes of many species. There are many that eventually extinct since they are not able to survive. I watched a video in AP Bio and not only do wild animals live there, but people still do as well. Examples of people still living in this kind of environment are in Brazil and New Guinea. These people could be largely affected by deforestation.The video was called Jungles: People of the Trees

Stephanie A-USA
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