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Pollution

Pollution is the process of giving out contaminants such as smoke and carbon dioxide, and too much of a certain product such as light, heat and sound that both cause harm to the environment.

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What are the pros and cons of GDP?

GDP: measures overall market value of final goods/services within a country in a given period of time.

GDP= volume of goods/services * price

Pros:

  • long hx of use - a lot of historical data to compare
  • many countries use it - comparison
  • easy to calculate
  • consistently measured across all countries (uniform)

Cons:

  • does not include domestic household products, or black market.
  • does not consider the "real value" of money as it uses price * volume (yet prices change based on inflation, purchasing power of the dollar changes).
  • if compared with other years it does not accurately measure the changes in productivity (thus use REAL GDP)
  • does not consider how the wealth of a nation is distributed
  • does not take into consideration the cost of productivity externalities (green house gas emissions on neighbouring countries)

How is global warming effecting air pressure?

I do not believe that the normal air pressure of the Earth as a whole is terribly effected by so called "global warming". Maybe at higher altitudes where the air is actually "thinner(less oxygen content) there may be some effects but it is probably negligible.

Will moving from Illinois to Texas affect your pension?

If you are in a state pension system in Illinois, ask your HR department if Texas and Illinois have a lateral pension transfer agreement. First find out if Texas even has a state retirement sytstem though...most states don't.




If what you mean is you have retired and are collecting your pension and want to move to the warmer climate...i don't think your State (or country) of residence effects the pension benefit you are collecting.

If you haven't retired yet and are continuing employment with the same employer, again the change shouldn't matter - except that wages may be different in the new state and pensions are generally based on earnings.

What are environmental issues in Norway?

too many people are driving and things like that butpeople all around the world are doing that so it's in normal status .

When did the Green Movement reach the furniture industry?

The Green Movement reached the furniture industry at the close of the 1990s. A few small companies started to recycle shipping pallets into fine furniture, such as coffee tables, desks, and dressers.

How long does it takes for tires to degrade in a landfill?

Cars are seldom put into landfills; they contain enough easily recoverable metal to make recycling them a paying proposition.

Short paragraph on pollution?

Pollution is nothing but "too much of something at wrong place" and environmental pollution is generally defined as the unfavorable alternations of our surroundings through the various actions of man himself. The undesirable and excessive substances that are released As., the by-products of man's actions, can affect air, water and land and adversely and alter the natural quality of our environment. Substances that are responsible for the alternations of environment are called pollutants and the total chain of actions as "environmental pollution". Hence it is nobody else than man himself is the real cause of environmental pollution. Environmental pollution can be well understood if we study its sources and effects. There are pollutions of air, water, soil, noise and radioactive wastes. The study of each type will give the real picture.

What are some precautions needed when disposing radioactive waste?

It should isolated from underground water and isolated from rivers and drinking water. It should be away from expected earthquake

How you can be exposed to toxic waste?

Many different things have been done with toxic waste of various types. Some businesses have discharged their toxic waste in rivers, which flow into the ocean, or have discharged waste into the ocean directly; mercury in particular has been a problem in this regard, and now the fish in the ocean are contaminated with mercury, and if you eat fish, you are going to eat some of this toxic waste, that was eaten (or absorbed) by the fish. Waste discharged into lakes can wind up in the fresh water fish from those lakes. If toxic waste is buried in the ground, it can seep into aquifers and poison people's wells, or wind up contaminating farm crops. If toxic waste emerges as smoke from smokestacks, it contributes to toxic smog which you may wind up breathing. The only safe thing to so with toxic waste is to chemically process it to either recycle the toxic substance (mercury is very useful and can be reused) or to destroy the toxin (some toxins can be destroyed at high temperature).

Conserve water slogans?

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. This sums up the process of water conservation. Because recycled water is not fit for drinking, Reducing and Reusing water plays a very important role in water conservation. This optimizes water usage and reduces wastage.

Check out the link given below for tips on how to reduce and reuse water in order to conserve it.

How Toxic is plastic in the environment?

The big problem with plastics in the environment is not primarily their toxicity but their stability. Many plastics do not degrade readily and so they will be almost unchanged for hundreds of years. This is a problem because animals might eat them and as the plastics cannot be digested they block the stomach or intestines and kill the animal that ate the piece of plastic.

What causes car to skip or jump when given gas?

The car might skip or jump when given gas if the gas has water in it or if your fuel lines have air in them. This problem is not uncommon when a gas filter is clogged or dirty.

What is littering?

Littering: The disposal of solid waste by dropping on the ground or into streams.

Walt Disney designed his theme parks so that there was a trash bin every 12 meters. This was determined to be the distance that the average person would carry waste before dropping it.

Quote: "You know how stupid the average person is? Well think. This means half of them are even stupider than that" George Carlin

Why is every home not connected to the sewage system?

In rural areas some houses have septic tanks for their waste disposal. This is mainly because they are living in an unincorporated (county) area that is not supported by any public sewer system.

How many years does it take to decompose foil?

If you are talking about aluminum foil, it takes a very long time. Aluminum is already in its elemental form, so there is no 'compound' to break down. Aluminum does not rust or corrode under normal exposure to the environment. The small amount that oxides on on its surface act as an inhibitor to further oxidation. So, an aluminum foil that is buried in a dump would last longer than our lifetimes.

How many albatrosses die a year from the great pacific garbage patch?

More than one million seabirds are estimated to die each year from toxins emitted and from entanglement with or filling their stomachs with plastic debris.

Plastic bottles and bags dumped from ships and from storm water drains and rivers float in the oceans and the wind and currents bring them all to this great revolving Pacific Gyre. Plastic ropes and discarded fishing nets are part of it too. Scientists estimate that there is around three million tons of plastic debris there.

The sun and the oceans have broken the plastic down. As the plastic degrades it releases many toxins which get into the food chain. It also breaks up into tiny pieces which are attractive to sea birds and marine creatures. This plastic junk builds up in their stomachs till they die. Some of the particles are microscopic and filter feeders like whales are swallowing them.

"Ghost fishing" from thrown away nets are still trapping fish and marine animals. An estimated 100,000 turtles and other animals die each year, and more than one million birds.

What are the different types of Lutheranism?

There is really only one type. There are, however, many different "synods," dioceses or jurisdictions. In many European countries, the Lutheran Church is the state church only divided by political-geographical boundary and language. For example, the Church of Norway has different bishops and dioceses than the Church of Sweden while both are Lutheran Churches with the same basic principles. In the U.S., there are three major synods, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Each started as a separate immigrant Church only divided by language. The three Churches follow the same basic beliefs and practices while they remain separate due to minor theological and polity issues along conservative/liberal lines and of interpretation of the Bible and Lutheran Symbolical writings.