I have a class presentation and report on environmental issues and I am having trouble finding an interesting topic. Does anybody have any interesting ideas that will keep a class intrigued? I was thinking about increasing natural disasters or something along those lines but any suggestions will be helpful.
These are topics I want to avoid. (they are already taken and not very interesting):
Global Warming – Fact
Global Warming – Fiction
Peak Oil Theory/Hubbert’s Peak
The Cost of Oil
OPEC
Oil in Africa
Ethanol
Electric Cars
EcoTerrorism
Urban Planning
The Global Commons
The Role of Governments
Automotive Industry
Social Norms
Provincial Government Policy
Federal Government Policy
UNFCC
Urban Sprawl
Endangered Species
The Green Revolution
Genetically Modified Foods
Water Scarcity
The Role of Non Governmental Organizations
Invasive Species
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How about consumerism and how globalization is destroying the rain forest, shifting developing populations to slave labor from subsistence living. Globalization puts a larger carbon footprint on almost everything we buy,use, consume and often dispose of. You can also talk about the processed foods 50 year campaign against the kitchen which has dramatically increased the amount of garbage we create per person, lowered the nutrition we get from food and has created a health crisis in the US. We are no longer in touch with our food system and massive polluting factories are raising much of our food and making us sicker in the process. Just take a look at all the food wasted with all the recalls in the past few years. Over 25% of the food produced in the US goes to a landfill.
Odds are you live in the Mississippi Watershed, which includes 30 states in whole or in part. You can explain how the actions that happen in your local watershed (pollution, sedimentation, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.) eventually make their way to the Gulf of Mexico, creating a hypoxic dead zone the size of the state of Delaware where very little marine life can live (certainly no fish) because of the lack of oxygen in the water, which is caused by chronic uncontrolled algae blooms that are caused by the extreme amount of pollution and nutrient loading in the water.
You could then go on to explain how restoring wetlands throughout the watershed will remove pollution, sediment, and excess nutrients while providing higher quality habitat for fish and wildlife in the local area as well as in the Gulf.
you do not think of the environmental result on Alabama's coastline brought about via the oil spill is "exciting"? Huh. How relating to the environmental results of typhoon Katrina, a majority of those years later--how the coastline replace into affected. How the flowers and fauna replace into and nonetheless affected. Um, how relating to the end result on our surroundings from each and all of the Hyundai and Mercedes and different automobile development factories? extra beneficial marketplace must be making an result. Are there any animals--yellow-bellied woodpecker?--that are endagered? Wild pigs and their result? Do a learn on Mount Cheaha's deteriorating face, etc.
Fracking
The Giant Pacific Garbage Patch
(and you can include Japan's tsunami debris that's about to be added)
How to build a self sustaining island with a base of two liter plastic bottles.