TWO PARTS, PLEASE READ
In Chapter 6: The Environment – Part I, Hite and Seitz (2016: 2024 – Do my homework – Help write my assignment online) note that pollution and global warming were an important concern of the first world conference on the environment that was held in Sweden in 1972. Principle 6 of that declaration stated that we must stop the release of pollutants and heat that cannot be effectively processed by our environment (Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. 1972. Chapter 11. p. 2. <https://www.ipcc.ch/apps/njlite/srex/njlite_download.php?id=6471>).
Thinking about the different types of pollutants and heat that cannot be effectively processed by our environment, which are the most critical to address? Identify three pollutants you consider to be the most critical to address and explain why you believe they are most important.
The Cost of Economic Growth
In Chapter 7: The Environment – Part II, Hite and Seitz (2016: 2024 – Do my homework – Help write my assignment online) discuss the existing tension between development and the environment. Development brings economic growth as well as social and environmental changes. To a developing country, economic growth may be of a higher priority than the consequences to the long-term health of its citizens or its environment. On the other hand, poverty can also harm the environment such as how searching for land to farm contributes to deforestation.
Do developing nations have a responsibility to share their water resources if they think it impinges on their national sovereignty or security?
