The other article I found was about cleaning the air and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas systems.
Were you aware that environmental
tragedies of this magnitude still exist today?
1. Yes I
was already aware that places like Love Canal still exist. Many toxic areas are
just under the surface and I assume we will read about more of them as time
goes by. It makes you want to thoroughly investigate the places we choose to
live in.
2. It's really scary to think about. Actually the town of Ruston
next to Point Defiance adjacent to the Asarco chemical plant was kind of a mess.
It took about 30 years to clean up that plant. The Puget Sound was a very
polluted body of water for many years because
of plants like Asarco. Then there is the Hanford nuclear site in eastern WA
which is still a clean-up nightmare and one of the most polluted sites in the
nation.
3. I had no idea that areas like this in our country existed! Makes
me wonder more about the area I live in or will live in the future.
4. There are far too many sites like this around the world. Pollutants
often effect the environment for decades which also adversely affects the
population for decades. I am aware sites like this still exist.
In your opinion, are environmental hazards something we
should be concerned about on a daily basis?
5. Yes.
If our population is already dying off and not taking care of our environment
enough as it is, we need to do all that we can protect what life we still have
left.
6. No. Concern does nothing. I acknowledge that there may be a
significant issue at hand, but worrying about it accomplishes nothing. We must
either be willing to act or hold our peace. Ways in which we could act is
writing letters to legislators, campaigning for change, and/or
using our resources to effect that change. The real question should be: do we
care and are we motivated enough to seek change ourselves? Or are we
just going to sit around and complain about it? I support proper disposal of
chemicals, but I am not currently willing to seek to effect the change myself.
Therefore, I will not raise my voice against it until I feel strongly enough
about it to seek to be a part of the solution. Complaining and worrying (being
concerned daily) accomplishes nothing. If I am not willing to be a part of the
solution, I do not believe I have the right to complain about it.
7. Environmental
hazards should not be thought of on a daily basis. Those whose job it is to
oversee environmental hazards should of course, but I see nothing beneficial
from chronically worrying about whether or not your home is built upon a
chemical dump as was the case in Love Canal. Humans have the tendency to recall
unique experiences as being common because they stick out in our minds.
However, for most of us, environmental hazards are not daily occurrences. As
always though, we should be responsible citizens. Properly disposing of waste,
conscious water usage, and keeping track of local natural disasters are things
we should be mindful of on a daily basis.
8. I feel
environmental hazards are something people do not pay enough attention to.
Although I am not sure it is something we need to worry about on a daily basis,
I feel people should be more concerned of how their actions affect the
environment.
9. They are very
important and we should worry about them, even if not on a daily basis. I think
that most people will not really run into a problem with them, but should be
aware that they exist and avoid them. I think that people need to be more
careful when
they see things like that their house is built on a chemical waste dump site.
Those people knew that their houses were built on one and didn't think to
question how much it affected their health. I think that people just need to be
cautious and more aware of their surroundings.
10. I agree that
environmental hazards are something we ought to consider before we take certain
life-course altering actions like buying a home. That's something we can easily
pick out of the article. But do we also need to be aware of the health hazards
right now and on a daily basis? I would say don't stress over it too much, but
yeah, keep it in mind. It's just like watching out for exercise and diet. While
I don't think we have to worry about barrels of toxic waste floating up from
under BYU campus, (although I have heard the Maeser building was built on an
exhumed grave) it's good to consider things like air quality when deciding
whether or not to go on your run outside or on the track in the RB.
My Responses:
Based on the
impact environmental tragedies affect you/your family how likely are you to take
action against disasters like this one?
I
have not personally been affected by any environmental tragedies, but in
reading my mom’s response to the article I found she noted that the Puget Sound
in Western Washington- near my home- has actually fallen victim to some immense
environmental hazards. I had no idea. Though I am not quite sure how I can help
yet, I am willing to learn more and raise awareness in our community.
How do
environmental tragedies affect you on a daily basis? Why should we care about
them?
We
may not experience environmental tragedies on the daily basis, but we are
affected each and every day by environmental influences. Thus, we must care
about them enough in order to make sure that small environmental concerns do
not escalate into tragedies. Every day we are exposed to environmental hazards
such as bad air coming from factories and cars, and if we do not limit them or
control the way in which they are handled, tragedies will occur.
Why should
we care about something that happened over 30 years ago?
Although
the Love Canal environmental disaster has been long time resolved, it is very
important to be educated about history so that we can learn from it. A lot of
what we have learned about public health is that no one really notices the
workers until something goes wrong. Sadly, it took such an awful tragedy to
wake people and realize the extent of the problem. By informing others about
such tragedies, we can keep more problems like these from occurring again.
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