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Osorio Brenda Professor Vana DerOhanessian English 114b Saturday, February 15, 2014 Nature in the horizon Having control and a being a reliable person is a quality that person acquires over time, but the different types of responsibilities expand into more demanding duties and/or jobs. Whether youre a governmental leader, a worker or head of a household, responsibility has to be a quality in your favor. Major worldwide problems are in demand for responsible human beings that will encounter the issue and resolve it. Global issues like the conservation of nature and the environment is one of the most important topics when discussing responsibility on a larger scale. Human beings overpopulate the world without realizing and understanding that each century that passes, deforestation and the subsuming of nature are degenerating out our green spaces.We are polluting the atmosphere with Carbon Dioxide when we burn soil, coil and fossil fuels, which contribute with the Global Warming and The green house effect; in a larger-scale Deforestation, Overpopulation and subsuming our Natural Resources are factor that overall will contribute with the extinction of many species and damaging the world we live in. We have evolved from Homo sapiens to much more intelligent species, and therefore, the Responsibilities of living in a planet and being aware of what negative impacts we are creating for the environment in the present and for the future. Throughout the years, each time more and more countries are able to communicate and create alliances, we've become united as part as a community in the world we inhabit. Being united for a sole purpose can create positive changes in our societies and eventually in our home, earth; because when you recognize that all beings are equalcomes a genuine sense of universal responsibility paragraph 5. As part of living species in planet Earth, we are faced with overpopulation and the subsuming of our Natural

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resources. We must end our selfish tendency of benefiting ourselves and start having an ideology that benefits mankind in that way a sense of universal responsibility will arise and create consciousness among us and our surroundings. Creating strict laws that take the world to a different path, every small contribution as a whole will make a larger impact upon our world. However, there have been laws that contribute to conserving the environment like the CleanAir Act in 1970 that the U.S. Congress passed; it regulates the emission of air pollutants nationwide and keeps the air clean from chemicals like ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and lead. Keeping the air as clean as possible benefits all Americans, adults children and the elderly breath much more clean air than without this law, The Clean-Air Act also gives EPA the authority to limit emissions of air pollutants coming from sources like chemical plants, utilities, and steel mills paragraph 4. Global warming is the rise of the Earths climate system; air pollution and carbon dioxide contribute with the global warming and is in part generated by cars or other emitters. However, the manufacturers of Hybrid cars and plug-in hybrid have been building efficient vehicles to help reduce the amount of Carbon Dioxide that results from the burning of gasoline that a traditional car emits. Owning a Hybrid car will benefit you and also the environment, giving better gas mileage and burning less gasoline. Investing in alternatives ways to producing energy will be a smarter way to go. Energy producers like wing and solar energy are harmless to the environment. Solar installations in the United States exceed 3,100 megawatts, enough to power more than 630,000 homes paragraph 3; Wind and Solar energy produce no emission like coal or the waste generated by a nuclear power plant. The Belo Monte Dam is a hydroelectric dam complex currently under construction on the Xingu River in the state of Par, Brazil. Belo Monte dam will be under construction of Norte Energia, and it will generate 11 thousand MW benefiting the region of Altamira. Brazil up-rising economy and need for more energy to supply cities is what Norte Energia wants to accomplish,

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The country has to generate more power to keep the paste with the energy-hungry economy, says spokesman of Norte Energia. The controversy of building the Belo Monte dam has been over 30 years, because it threatens the lifestyle of many indigenous people that live in the area and are dependent of the Xingu River. Indigenous people argue that the construction of the dam will after their hunting, their water-supply and also the destruction of the Xingu river bio diversity is at risk. Global warming can increase by the emitters of Methane due to large dams cause significant methane emissions, massive quantities of the greenhouse gas that is 20-50 time more potent than CO2 Paragraph 1 Methane and Global Warming. What will it take for us to create conscious actions towards earth and conserving our green spaces? Recycling, un-plugging the charger, take shorter showers, changing lights to fluorescent bulbs may be seen as insignificantly, but youll contribute to conserving the environment and water. Human beings have to leave a legacy to their descendants, for them to live in pro-nature societies and for them to keep preserving the place we live on, because we are consumers, but we have to acknowledge that we cant only consume but also be producers. Generating stricter laws that will benefit Mother Nature and invest towards efficient energy producers will be a smarter path for the future of the world. We have to stop overlooking the damages and waiting until its too late, we must start acting now in favor of the earth, and we should be grateful to be to be bless with so much bio diversity that has kept us surviving; and capable of sustaining our great demands from our societies that have over the years and the environment.

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Works Cited Shah, Anup. "Global Issues." Environmental Issues That Affect Us All. Global Issues, 19 Jan. 2014. Web. 18 Feb. 2014. United States Environmntal, Protection Agencies. "Air Pollution and the Clean Air Act." Clean Air Act Requirements and History. Environmental Protection Agency, n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2014. University of British, Columbia School Of Journalism. "World-Americas." Damming the Amazon. The New York Times, 5 May 2013. Web. 18 Feb. 2014. Jensen, Cheryl. "Wheels How Do You Find the Best Green Cars." How Do You Find the Best Green Cars? The New York Times, 24 Apr. 2013. Web. 18 Feb. 2014. Clean Line Energy Partners Team "Why Renewable Resources?" Wind and Solar. Clean Line, n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2014.

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