Speech On Good Choices

Canada, like so many other countries in the world continues to deal with many different environmental resource issues. Throughout our history, one of the issues affecting our country has been the treatment of our First Nations people. For the purpose of this paper, the focus will be on the safe water crisis facing Canada’s First Nations communities. The Oxford Dictionary (2016) defines a crisis as a time of great difficulty or danger. The research included will help clarify the reality of the Canada’s First Nations safe water crisis. Despite some improvements over the past few decades, many of our First Nation citizens still lack access to safe and clean water. Our reserves have water that is contaminated, difficult to access or toxic because of outdated and faulty treatment systems. (Klasing, 2016) This safe water crisis is in need of immediate attention. It is Canada’s responsibility to provide the right to clean and safe water for all of its citizens.

Cole and Foster (2002) describes how many of the Native environmental justice struggles were focused around land and environmental exploitation (p. 26), both of which can be seen with the case of clear cutting in the Grassy Narrows community (Keewatin v Minister of Natural Resources, 2011), as well as with the issues surrounding the case of mercury pollution (Grassy Narrows and Islington Indian Bands Mercury Pollution Claims Settlement, 1986). This is an environmental justice issue because the Grassy Narrows people continually have to deal with environmental racism. Both of the examples mentioned above, along with the fact that they are still battling out in court their right to clean water and harvesting rights that sustains their livelihood (Keewatin v. Ontario Natural Resources, 2013) show how indigenous communities are still facing environmental racism in Canada.

With the well-being of future generations in mind, environmental concerns have begun to establish a permanent residence atop the priority ladder for a vast array of Americans. Consequently, writers and political pundits alike are seizing this opportunity to capitalize on advocating their stance on the issue. Information, representing all positions, pours in at an unrelenting and unfathomable rate. For the average American it can be an arduous process sifting through all the rhetoric in attempt to find the real truth regarding our impact as humans on the environment; one such example is Susan Brown’s article The EPA’s Mercury Problem. In this article Brown attempts to expose hypocrisy among progressives by paralleling the Environmental Protection

In todays world most materials that we use in our daily life are dangerous to the environment, either they pollute our air, or they are synthesized made materials, which means that they take thousands of years to decompose. In “NOVA: Making Stuff: Cleaner” they explore how to actually clean up our world for those materials. They look at cleaner ways to generate power mainly in our transportation, and electrical power plants. They review alternatives in fuel production, storage, and distribution processes with a particular emphasis on how trash, and used and unwanted material waste products can play a significant role in that area. They talked about the fact that the future of driving is electrical cars, like from the 19th century, but one problem

Complainant, who is African-American, alleges that Respondent’s employee had a scowl on her face, talked down and attempted to belittle him, but was extremely helpful to a Caucasian customer. Respondent asserts that denies that its employee subjected Complainant to differential terms and conditions based on his race. Respondent asserts that Complainant requested and received the services, in-person hearing regarding his parking tickets, that he requested.

Waste treatment in London is not very energy-efficient or economical which is a cause for high taxes. An interesting alternative, in addition to recycling, is for household waste to be burned or converted to biogas to be used as a source of energy which can provide thousands of households with heat and electricity [13][14].

The civic issue that I’ve chosen for this assignment is the increased pollution in Canada.

Recycle paper, plastic, glass, and metal for new uses. Lastly, we will dispose of all of the stuff safely, by never dumping the trash in rivers, woods, or any human environments such as near houses or factories instead we would handle it safely and responsibly. We will bury the burnt waste in a landfill. Waste management is expensive but worth it because 1.1 million homes are able to get power this way. Plus Mango Tango will dedicate 27,000 protected acres to wildlife habitat. We get power in a safely, also in a non-threatening way for the animals. In conclusion, waste management became a solution

A very important issue tied to Canada’s future sustainability is that of recycling. There is currently a shortage of suitable landfill spaces in Canada, and the current landfills produce harmful emissions (Statistics Canada, 2008). Using methods to divert as many of these wastes away from landfills will help to slow their growth and improve Canada’s future outlook. Recycling is one such method.

-Expected to reduce mercury emissions from electrical power generation by about 40% by 2020 and 65% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels, and could reduce mercury emissions by up to 96% by 2050.

Sarnia is home to more than 60 refineries and chemical plants. It is known as the “Chemical Valley” because 40 percent of Canada’s chemical industry is located there. A first nations reserve is located in the middle of this chemical valley. They are facing extreme environmental racism and injustice and the government will not launch a health study into the side effects of the chemicals on the first nations people or any resident of Sarnia. There are many Aamjiwnaang people taking a stand against these corporations destroying their land and health. The Aamjiwnaang took it into their own hands to come together and do some testing in the community. They created the Aamjiwnaang environmental Committee and when they all came together as a community

Polypharmacy is the use of many different drugs concurrently in treating patient who often has several health problems. The growing geriatric population consumes the largest proportion of all medication than of other population groups. In Canada alone, one in three older adults takes more than 8 different drugs each day, and some take as many as 15 or more (Lilley, 2011). Polypharmacy can lead to what is known as the “prescribing cascade”, in which older adults develop adverse effects from one or more of the medications taken and the health care provider then prescribe another drug. The risk for drug interactions, adverse effects, and hospitalization is far greater in this situation. Acknowledging polypharmacy in a patients and

Canada has the potential to be a “sustainable energy superpower” due to the vast amount of resources it contains. It has a large landmass and diversified geography which can be used to produce renewable energy from such resources; watermill, wind, biomass, solar, geothermal, and ocean energy. Renewable energy is energy obtained from natural resources that are able to be naturally replenished within a human lifespan (Natural Resource Canada, 2014). Currently, fossil fuel burning is the major source of energy in Canada and although it can be re-used, the process is so long that it is considered to be non-renewable. Also, fossil fuel burning for coal, natural gas, and petroleum gas pollutes the environment with greenhouse gases on a large scale, causing global warming. Non-renewable energy is taken from sources that re available on Earth in limited quantity, likely vanishing within fifty to sixty years from today (Conserve Energy Future, 2014). Thus, it is important for Canada to invest their money on resorting to more environmentally friendly and renewable ways to make electricity. Being a developed country, Canada has the financial stability to purchase the technologies over time in order to produce renewable energy. In addition, many organizations and the government have taken a step to educate the society about issues regarding energy usage, and to create programs which conserve energy for the future. In the future generations, Canada will be able to generate sufficient

The human population is growing rapidly, and Earth doesn't have enough space for it. In 1967, Earth had a population of 3 billion, and only about 50 years later, that number had doubled into 7 billion. There are many reasons why our population is increasing so fast, in so little time, but I'll only go over two. The first, and foremost the most recognised reason, is the birth to death rate ratio. Every minute there is almost twice as many births then there are deaths; 200 births to 100 deaths. There is an estimated 350,000 born every day with only 150,000 deaths, making there 4 births every second and 2 deaths every second. Overwhelming right? Well the second reason which goes hand in hand with the birth to death rate, is, over the last few hundred years, we have become more intelligent, and more self aware. Our knowledge on medicine has grown like no other, and our life expectancy has grown with it. With many more factors modifying our population rate, these two show it best. We are living longer and having more babies, but soon we’ll need to stop.

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” We’ve all heard stories about people who seemed to be the recipients (deserving or not) of incredible luck. They were at a party and heard cocktail chatter about a fantastic job opportunity. They fortuitously knew a guy who knew a guy, etc.