SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Environmental Ethics, Nitrogen Dioxide, Economic Globalization
29 Mar 2014
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Environmental crisis caused people to alters and change minds into pessimistic ideas in response of current situations. Environmental crisis is one of most concerned issue around the world for decades. Due to ungovernable using of fossil fuels, deforestation, using chemicals, and throwing chemical waste from the factory caused disturb of environment and triggered global warming. As a result of global warming, the global temperature is increased, desertification, and shortage of fresh water. To overcome this situation, people try to change alternative energy over fossil fuels. As time passes, scientists and people divided into two groups of thinking differently about environment, pessimist and optimist. Environmental pessimists argue that the environment is beyond the earth to self-recover because we, human beings use immeasurable natural resources as they are infinite. They insist the earth is facing an environmental crisis on a scale unprecedented in human history.
