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Amanda Mariglia

Instructor:

Biology

May 2, 2010

Article Summary

Aplerovitz, Gar. “You say you want a revolution?” World Watch 18.6 (2005): 18-22. Print.

In this piece of writing they focus on economic strategies for enhancing environmental

protection. Since the modern environmental movement was born in the 1970's, enormous funds

and energies have been expended globally to understand and cure our environmental ills. The

result has been some spectacular successes namely the Montreal Protocol to control

chlorofluorocarbon emissions and preserve the stratospheric ozone layer, growing understanding

of the Earth's ecosystems and our effects on them, and a widely expressed commitment to their

health. If governments are unable to solve the jobs problem, there will be continued political

opposition to important environmental measures that might cause economic dislocation. A

larger, longer-term strategy would build on such ideas and organize broad coalitions around

specific policies and new economic institutions aimed at community economic and

environmental security. Economic instability radically weakens all forms of civil society

network-building, including those that nurture democracy and communities' interests in their

environments.

“Radiation is good for you” Earth island journal 12.1 (2000): 13. Print.

In this article they talk about the Health Physics Society (HPS), a coalition of nuclear

plant workers, has called for raising acceptable US radiation exposure levels for the public to 10

rems per year (twice the 5 rems per year now permitted for nuclear plant workers). An advisory
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committee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has endorsed the HPS plan and argues that

increasing public exposure to radiation might have beneficial health effects. The Nuclear

Monitor [1424 16th St. NW, No. 601, Washington, DC 20036] explains that the owners of

nuclear power stations want to cut costs in every way possible. Higher radiation exposure levels

would save millions of dollars as the nuclear industry confronts the headache of dismantling

aging reactors.

Knopper, Melissa. “Everything gives you cancer.” E-the environmental magazine 16.5 (2005):

40-41. Print.

In this article reports that sometime in the future, two of the women and three of the men

will develop cancer, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). Doctors diagnosed 1.3

million people with cancer in 2004, ACS statistics show and about half of those patients did not

survive. Cigarette smoking is the most obvious example. Being overweight is another top cause

of breast, prostate and colon cancer. Too much sun exposure, another lifestyle choice, also is at

the top of the list of cancer causes. Then there's too much unprotected sex, which spreads Human

Papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease that drives up cervical cancer rates. Americans use

100,000 chemicals in everything from household cleaners and lawn chemicals to cosmetics and

food preservatives, according to the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.

Manufacturers introduce 1,000 new chemicals each year. Certain industries have a higher cancer

rate than others. Workers who make tires in rubber plants breathe 1, 3-butadiene all day.