Environtmental and Global Health

Posts Tagged ‘Future Generations’

The U.S. federal government are on their way to enact a law. This would define organic products in four categories:

“100% organic” are those products without organic ingredients.
“Organic” for products with 95% of the ingredients organic.
“Made with organic products” for products made between 50 and 95% organic ingredients.
“Products with less than 50%” organic ingredients, you must specify in each ingredient that is organic.
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Many people feel admiration for nature, respect. They are sensitive to the beauty of wild scenery, plants and animals. In this generosity, compassion, nothing to do with a utility that can be natural, seeing it as something far more important than “natural resources” for using, selling or eating. Of course we need to use natural, but not good considering it only as something used.

The sense that nature is far more than the things that take advantage of, to realize that the existence of human beings share with nature, it is proud to disperse knowledge. This knowledge allows to look silly for saying “first is the man.” We must be good, but we should also respect others.

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It is true that human beings require a number of minerals to meet some of their needs, basic or not. But it is also true that excessive consumption of some humans are destroying their livelihoods and the environment on the other side of humanity, who live in areas affected by mining.

Because of its impacts, mining is one activity that should be tightly controlled at all stages, from exploration and exploitation for the transportation, processing and consumption. In many cases, the only means strict control restrictions.

To claim that the mining company itself controlled is more than naive: it makes sense. Even the control of the government are not sufficient, considering the economic and political power that has proven mining company on them. It should empower all citizens to participate directly in this control.

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There are many potential impacts of global warming than hypothetically affect the environment and human life according to the theory of global warming. The main thing is the average temperature increased gradually.

From here, there are a number of different effects such as rising sea levels, changes in agricultural ecosystems, the spread of tropical diseases, the increasing intensity of natural phenomena. Some of this phenomenon will produce today, but it is difficult to determine a direct relationship to global warming.

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