Which is the most important environmental issue of the day based on your research? What should we do as a result of this information?

I think the most important environmental issue of the day based on my research is Nuclear because once it gets into the land, it contaminates for a long time like Chernobyl did. People got diseases and cancers. Their kids were born with birth defects like their leg was too big, heart sticking, large head, and etc. Sometimes the kids don't live long enough because of their problems that they were born with. The people of Russia are trying to build a dome to stop more Nuclear contamination coming out from the plant. People still live where the Chernobyl disaster is and a forest is really contaminated when you go there, you will get very sick and die. The Red Forest is the forest that is really contaminated. People don't know if they have the radiation in them until they start getting badly sick and die. What I think we should do is give Russia money so they could build the dome and it would stop the radiation from getting out even more.  I mean we would do the same exact thing if that happened to the US. Why can't we help them out so people there wouldn't keep getting sick and dying? We'd do the exact same thing if that happened to us.

Natural Gas and Fracking vs Coal

Natural gas and fracking is a bad way to power the planet because it poisons the water supply. When people start the fracking process, the water gets infected with Natural Gas. It poisoned rivers, streams, and people's drinking water. A lady's father always drank water from a lake before it was poisoned and when it was poisoned, he died of pancreatic cancer. There are families that could light their water on fire and in the town of Dish, they rules saying that you can't barbecue, smoke, and light a match because the whole entire town will explode. The Natural gas is in the air and will catch on fire easily. People are inhaling the Natural Gas 24/7 and are getting sick of it. People are losing their sense of smell and taste because of the air being polluted. A man has to wear a respirator to breathe where he lives. The company, that does the drilling, comes into an area, develop it really quickly and if you trash anything, they make the people prove it first in court for so long that people don’t have resources. It affects animals too because it loses its fur. If a cow drinks the infected water and after people slaughter it for meat, then we happen to eat it, we get sick from it. Coal is also bad because people working in the mines get black lung disease. They get it because they inhale the carbon dust coming from the coal. People also started to blow mountain tops off to get more coal. That makes lakes blocked and releases more carbon into the air.

Nuclear Vs Foreign and Domestic Oil

What do you think would happen if we had a Nuclear meltdown like Chernobyl and Fukushima and our land was contaminated for a thousand years or people coming to our countries killing us for oil or having oil dug up from our ground and it exploding, polluting the land and or water? Nuclear, foreign oil, and domestic oil is bad to power the planet, too. Nuclear plants get meltdowns and they explode, contaminating the land with nuclear energy for a long time and never go away. People in Chernobyl got diseases and cancers. Their children were born with deformities of their body parts. People go to the Middle East to get foreign oil from there. The people trying to get the oil kill the foreign people to get the oil. President Bush made a speech saying that America is addicted to foreign oil. President Obama said that the US will break free from foreign oil. People get domestic oil from the bottom of the ocean floor using oil rigs. Sometimes the oil rig will explode like the BP oil rig did. BP could have used the blowout preventer to prevent it from exploding, but Dick Cheney gave the oil industries these huge passes on what they had to comply with as far as regulation and one of them was the acoustic switch, which can start the blowout preventer and could’ve stopped the oil rig from exploding. It leaked out millions of gallons of domestic oil into the Gulf of Mexico and polluted it. 

Global Warming: Man Made or Man-Made Hype?

Global Warming is Man Made because people contribute to it by using more energy like fossil fuels. The use of it is a direct and important cause of Global Warming. The percentage of U.S. contributing to Global Warming is 30.3%. Three things that people are doing that is causing Global Warming are the growth of the human population, technology, and the way of our thinking. These three things add up to an ever-escalating carbon output. Most of the polar bears are swimming 65 miles out to find more ice and they drowned. 95% of the Sun’s rays bounce off of the ice and 90% of it was absorbed in the ocean; the water gets warmer and contributes to the ice melting. Antarctica was the largest landmass, but when it starts to melt, then the water level starts to rise when it or Greenland starts to melt. Global Warming can trigger an ice age if fresh water mixes with the Northern Atlantic, then The Great Conveyor Belt, which keeps us warm and Europe, will shut down and we'll go into a mini ice age. If people want to decrease Global Warming, then the amount of carbon dioxide released each year by humans must be drastically reduced.