Environmental Issue

Environmental Issue

Environmental Issue

Introduction

The development of the digital society creates an energy over-consumption and a steady increase in products, materials and electronic waste. The government and industry begin to take stock of the environmental costs of the new economy and act timidly. However, for now, these are the emerging countries and their people who pay the tribute, risking their environment and their health. The question here is that, what happened to the mountains monitors, CPUs, keyboards, printers and peripherals of all kinds when they are obsolete or useless?

From 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste, piling up in the world believes that volume increases from 3 to 5% per year, determined through a United Nations study in 2005. In France, they produce a present average of 25 kg of WEEE (waste electrical and electronic) per year per person, and the 25 kg, 8% - less than 2 kg - pass through a die to collect and eventually recycling a quarter of them. In Europe, it is, according to a report by the European Union, nearly 36 tons of mercury and 16 tones of cadmium that are discarded each year in the atmosphere, mainly due to the incineration of WEEE. This is yet the only visible part of the iceberg. The increase of the computer also induces energy cost, and, therefore, environmental pollution becomes higher and higher. Besides these devices, the Internet infrastructure itself attracts a large amount of energy resources (Govt blamed for deaths due to air pollution, 2011).

Care ethics focuses our vigilance on the communal and how it is assembled through unequal power connections, but it moves us after critique and in the direction of the building of new types of study, educating, and expert practices might move in dialogue with care ethics.

 

Air Pollution

Air pollution impacts the New Zealand society as it is a major environmental risk to health. Air pollution is a risk factor for multiple short term and long term health disorders such as respiratory infections, heart diseases and lung cancer. There are four main selected air pollutants (PM, Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide) that the World Health Organisation recommend to limit these pollutants to reduce health risks. Most of these health disorders arise primarily from pollutants known as 'Particulate matter', which consists of sulphate, ammonia, nitrates, sodium chloride, carbon, mineral dust and water. This pollutant impacts health by increasing the risk of developing chronic respiratory and cardiovascular diseases including lung cancer upon exposure. Exposure to PM is experienced in both the urban and rural areas in developed and developing countries (Laws and treaties, 2011).

The paper is designed to highlight the integration between air quality and climate change. The levels of Air pollution are straightly influenced by the alteration in weather, for instance heat waves. Most of the changes in weather are the outcomes of the change in climate, such as frequent sequence of stagnant air and warmer temperatures that is why it becomes the reason of air ...