Environmental Issues Effecting Diverse Populations:Of Humans

HUMANITY- Now owns Life on Earth - the human footprint

Constructing environmental and health policies appropriate across diverse communities is challenging. Group differences in the circumstances of exposure and in responses to environmental risk are common. Consequences of this variability may become more apparent given recent calls for more deregulation and an increased use of participatory strategies to manage environmental risks. Here you will investigate problems around the world that include Industrialized countries, 3rd World countries, shifted cultivators, Aboriginal people, Political Issues, Energy Corporations, Farmers, Loggers and Conservationist groups

Specific Issues to investigate:

Biodiversity Benefits People

UNEP & WCMC - benefiting the human race

Political Issues- disclaiming Climate Change

Fox Confronts Al Gore

Flawed Climate Model Magic

Climate Mitigation- Is Sea Ice really Increasing?

Tipping point for artic sea ice

NASA creates climate change by altering data

Anthony Watts' webpage- Author who looks at the otherside of the issue and who questions the graphs and models of the climate

Agricultural -

Forest vs Agriculture: the values of the forest were calculated by local researchers

Population Growth is a cause for more agriculture which means cutting down forests to produce more farm acerage.

How can Farmers produce more - A positve take on Environmental issues

Shelterbelts- Many farmers today - no longer plant shelterbelts and are actually tearing them out to increase use of crop land. What affects does this have on our ecosystems.

Benefits from Shelter belts:

• Soil
  • Reduced soil erosion
  • Shoreline protection
• Air
  • Reduced odours from animal production sites
  • Reduced pesticide drift (also affecting water quality indirectly)
  • Reduced greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere

• Water
  • Water quality through filtering function
  • Floodplain management
  • Wastewater management
• Biota
  • Wildlife habitats
  • Wildlife based recreation
  • Increased biodiversity
  • - measuring biodiversity

Around the World issues:

Oil and Gas Exploitation- Human Impacts on Antartica

Environmental effects in Nigeria

Oil Vilolence in Africa

Uganda: Will oil solve or increase the country's problems?

Nigeria: Gas Corporation NLNG Destroys Mangrove forest in the Niger Delta

Bolivia: The defense of the Chiquitano forest continuesBolivia

USA: Rainforest Action Network underCorporate attack

World Rainforest Movement

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