The best reason to care about our growing population is concern for future generations. People a generation or two from now will experience increasing effects of crowding and resource depletion. We should be concerned for our children and grandchildren, who will know a world very different from ours.
Stung by criticism, the Bush administration recently announced that it is asking independent scientists to review the science behind a federal plan to increase logging in northern spotted owl habitat throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Scientists believe that an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is growing rapidly as a result of Americans" increasing appetite for ethanol, a carbon-neutral biofuel derived from corn that can be used as a gasoline additive or as E85, a gasoline alternative in automotive engines.
Human population is expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, resulting in an ever increasing number of poor people suffering from malnutrition, disease and other maladies.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Mi resolución de Año Nuevo es reducir mi "huella de hidrocarbón" para ayudar a luchar contra el calentamiento del planeta. ¿Tienen Uds. sugerencias para ayudarme a cumplir mi promesa?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: No puedo entender porqué no es obligatorio reciclar en los E.E.U.U. En mi hogar reciclamos el 80 por ciento y echamos a la basura solo un 20 por ciento y estoy intentando mejorar esos porcentajes. ¿Qué necesita pasar para que el reciclaje sea la ley de la nación?
Cans and bottles of sodas emit very little CO2 directly when opened, but the production and distribution of single-serving beverages of all kinds generate untold millions of tons of greenhouse gases and other pollutants every year, while also wasting billions of gallons of fresh water.
