Envs 1301 Unit 1

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DA – Unit 1 / ENVS 1301 The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website is impressive with its cornucopia of data for maps that are area specific for information on energy, health-related issues, community activism, land (commercial or private property), water (private or public) and air quality. Although I knew the agency existed, until now I had had no reason to visit. For my local area, there are no environmental concerns; however, I learned of the detailed information available regarding air quality monitoring – which indicated that the air quality for our location is among the best air quality in the nation. (The state of California leads the nation in several aspects of environmental stewardship.) Yes, such a fact …show more content…

To-date, we've not had any issues or environmental concerns that directly effected nor incidentally impacted my community. Nonetheless, I think a great method to improve the public's awareness of the range of accessible information would be best to be advised of (or, reminded about) the website when the local news forecast relates to environmentally-related health issues. Additionally, if the K-12 education sectors are uninformed, they should be appropriately included on a rotating schedule. Children are natural “monitors” to help adults remember such matters. Plus, I imagine it would be excellent environmental educational “training” for successive generations. A couple of interesting facts I learned about my country from the Environmental Snapshot of the UN Statistics Division link were: over 4.3 million tons of fish were harvested in 2010 and the change in agricultural land decreased by 4 percent between 1990 and 2013 (UNSD). Which might be due, I suppose, to increased imports of food products. The only other thoughts I have on this topic is that, in my opinion, it would enhance global relations significantly if the developed nations respectfully shared the environmental lessons they have learned with the developing countries to guard against those developing countries traveling the same erroneous itinerary – if the developing nations would accept such

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