Updates from Thursday 24th October, 2013 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Rachel Lee
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AshleyKristen
Climate Change- global warming
Land Degration- land pollution
Unemployment- inflation of prices
Child Labor-absence of education, poverty -
Debbie
Oil Spills pollutes environment
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/enbridge-s-kalamazoo-cleanup-dredges-up-3-year-old-oil-spill-1.1327268 -
Jiacheng Shen
Too much food that contain poisonous elements that can be legally sold in China which will largely affect human health.
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Jingyi Li
Environment :air pollution-PM2.5 Social:…
Environment :air pollution-PM2.5 Social:unempolyment
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alexischow
animal testing
companies experiment on animals in order to modify/create their products -
andreaho
Climate change (global warming) – caused by the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere
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Curtis Zhao
Issues: Increase in global waste, depletion of the icecaps, abuse in drugs and alcohol.
Causes: Disregard for environment and people -
Maddie Ladner
Environmental: Increase of carbon dioxide due to more vehicles & factories
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Taylor Tam
urbanization, expanding in to new environment as population grows
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Jonathan Gugger
Economic injustice is a growing social issue. Movements like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street express these concerns.
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Krista Wilson
depletion of the arctic which is home to fewer and fewer animals from the increase of Co2 emissions resulting in melting the arctic ice caps
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Changchun Dai
People are using illegal cooking oil in China to make money.It is much cheaper than regular cooking oil,
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rhiannonwademan
Increasing rates of Obesity, due to the fact of synthetic chemicals in our food and high prices for healthier foods.
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Matt Gwin
Income distribution (1% vs. 99%); caused by personal enrichment in the 1% as opposed to the use of capital for overall economic growth
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Huijia Yang
Unemployment; food safety,juvenile delinquency; air/water/noise pollution;
Cause: lack of regulations; technology is not so advanced-
Huijia Yang
@Yan Gao
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Megan Chan
Overpopulation is a current social issue, caused by relaxed immigration laws, lack of contraception and poor women’s education.
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Eric Cho
Environmental – Unsustainable resource use (caused by western lifestyle)
Social – Poverty (caused by resources being inflated – can’t afford -
Huang Yu Lin (Alan)
Income inequality due to gender or ethnicity. Possibly caused by employer preference.
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lindamuhia
Companies have focused more on profit making and have lost the aspect of helping society in general.
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berfuapaydin
Air Pollution
Especially in undeveloped countries, people depend on burning wood and dung for their heat and cooking. -
ioannissakarellos
youth unemployment is very important especially due to the financial crisis, climate change is a serious environmental issue
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Emily Chang
Air pollution by cigarettes,can cause cancer (first hand & second hand smoke). The smoke companies cause addiction, smoke becomes necessity.
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joey7yoo
Tailing pondscause birds to be unable to fly after sitting in this pond because of oil in their wings and get stuck in this waste pond.
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Meggie Liu
Land Use. The land degradation can come from chemical pollution of soil and groundwater through use of herbicides, and loss of biodiversity.
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lucasoutumuro
Social: unemployment, proper treatment of shareholders/employees
Environmental: global warming, wasting resources, pollution -
Paul
The ‘human safaris’ of Jarawas, one of the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands in India.
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Paul Freiwirth
Cause: Tourist companies wanting to profit.
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zhujunye
air pollutants from fossil fuel–>Globe warming
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Yiyin Zhang
Pollution and insufficient waste.
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Alexander Wou
Increased pollution. It is caused by humans and their lifestyle(Co2 from cars). Companies also contribute such as the tar sands.
Matt Gwin 7:28 am on October 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
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