The economic development and the environmental concerns are globally anticipated by humans and every living creature on earth. The issue of environmental problems holds a dramatic outcome for all eco systems as well as our own survival. In an ironic sort of way our own struggle over natural resources and economic development can be promoting our own self destruction. (Mooney, Knox, and Schacht) In the same token, the environment will also affect us, but how much or how little we don't know” (475).
Our quest for oil and Uranium has led us to far and abroad into territories engaged in war and seeking the power to expand their own territories by dictatorships seeking Nuclear Energy and Weapons. Many of these dictatorships are involving terrorism, mass murdering and neglect of millions who are povershed. At the same time pollutants such as oil and Nuclear energy weigh inevitable outcomes which will promote many undesirable outcomes over the years. Oil is a given pollutant giving off MMT's and Carbon Monoxide at the same time nuclear energy is efficient but produces non disposable waste and could actually result in a meltdown at any given time. Mooney Knox and Schacht and the East Carolina University. "In the late 1990 ethyl a U.S chemical company, used NAFTA rules to challenge Canadian Environmental regulation of the toxic gasoline additive MMT."Ethyl won the suit"(page 475). Closer to home the same issue is beckoning our own doorstep. The Poughkeepsie Journal's Dan Shapely states, “The discovery of a gasoline additive in community wells in East Fishkill this month highlighted the impact droughts have on water quality”.Dec. 1 2005).
The closing of Indian Point and other plants has been subject to debates for many years. One thing is for certain building new power plants is not necessarily a desirable idea anywhere. This presents a problem in countries without Nuclear Energy, because they want the same energy and weapons as most advanced nations. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will not pass productions of new plants in these countries or any because of the risk of terrorism and undesirable effects and waste produced over time. Mooney, Knox and Schacht and the ECU states, “Germany became the first country to order all of its nuclear power plants shut down by 2020” (487). At the same time many countries are at war in the Middle East have divided over territory, hatred, diversity, power, and resources. It is safe to say that Americas own divisions and political regulations could be used against our country by these foreign countries. America is still struggling with terrorism, and issues dating back to the Civil War era, meaning our struggle within could be exploited by foreign nations and feed our own demise. For example some struggles from hundreds of years ago still linger in our own country. Other struggles we face are our continental independence from Canada and Mexico. Though the unison of North and South America isn't likely soon, less diversity on trade issues including NAFTA agreements could not hurt.
Mooney Knox and Schacht and the ECU states, “It is only a matter of time before a cooperation based in Canada or Mexico wins a NAFTA case against the United States” (Public Citizen 2005). This would put a stronghold on the United States and could lead to economic disaster and even war. These divisions of the America's are handy-capping our ability to progress with new ideas and promote environmentally safer alternatives and methods free of massive amounts of pollution. The problem is unison is not always an easy compromise. Different economic environments would definitely promote diversity. A countries wealth may have much bearing on the total outcomes of many toxic pollutants. Mooney Knox and Schacht, and The East Carolina University state, Wealthy nations have higher per capita consumption of petroleum, wood, , metals, cement, and other commodities that deplete the earths resources, emit pollutants, and generate large volumes of waste” (476). Andrea Dorado states, “So many companies if not all are here just to make profits and don't care about who or what gets hurt along the way” (4/26/2008). In other words our distinctive patterns of environmental holocaust are gradually expanding into an unpredictable future. These patterns are displayed by large corporations and gradually trickled down to individuals in society. The changes may be apparent, but maybe to gradual for the environment.
The effect of these patterns' is now beginning to dismantle the atmosphere and most precious life giving resources. Andrew C. Revkin states, “This "tipping point" scenario has begun to consume many prominent researchers in the United States and abroad, because the answer could determine how drastically countries need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years”Sept. 29, 2005. Revkin also states, “The findings are consistent with recent computer simulations showing that a buildup of smokestack and tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases could lead to a profoundly transformed Arctic later this century, when much of the once ice-locked ocean would routinely become open water in summers” These predictions could mean nothing short of massive flooding and climate changes as well as atmospheric changes.
