Climate Change and Environmental Degradation

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html

Here's a reliable source on global warming and climate change --Oriana

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c_e92-1C2K0&feature=related

A Short Youtube video with some clips from "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on Global Warming --Oriana

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xzSzItt6h-s

A rebuttal of Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" -Mustafa

 

 

 

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/yu-yda071706.php

A NYTimes video on China's economic growth and the resulting environmental degredation. -Mustafa

 

 

Climatic changes already are estimated to cause over 150,000 deaths annually.

http://www.who.int/heli/risks/climate/climatechange/en/index.html

 

 

Pollution continues

http://www.who.int/heli/economics/en/valuingcosts.jpg

 

Environmental Justice for All - Even Tuvalu! - Michael K. Dorsey

http://www.ifg.org/wssd/mdorsey.htm

 

Sinking Feeling in Tuvalu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2219001.stm

 

("pattern of disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and degradation among the marginalized") - matt

 

 

 

Some of the Problems:

 

Air and water pollution

• Lack of access to clean drinking water

• Lack of proper sewage treatment infrastructure

• Increased risk of expsoure to infectious and parasitic disease and to a growing volume of industrial chemicals, heavy metals, and algal toxins

 

Use of food additives and pesticides

 

Intensive farming, erosion, and spread of desert areas

 

Pollution, acid rain, ozone depletion, and climate change

• Availability of water

• Productivity of farms, forests, and fisheries

• Prevalence of oppressive heat and humidity

• Geography of disease

• Damages to be expected from storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires

• Property losses to be expected from sea-level rise

• Distribution and abundance of species, both good and bad