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What is is the most important environmental issue facing the planet today?
Filed under Million Green IdeasApr 19Question by Spitfire: What is is the most important environmental issue facing the planet today?
What are you most afraid will happen to the planet that cannot be reversed?
Do you have a healthy environmental conscience?
Do you have faith that mankind will do the right thing and learn to treat the world better before it’s too late?
Will Mother Nature win?Best answer:
Answer by mamoucindy
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Mar 22
Question by giffoni123: Is global warming really a important problem of today or?
Is global warming really a important problem of today or not. Although global warming may be a problem, Most of us will never know. Should we not leave this for future generations to come. Our problems of today are much more important .We will never get to solve global warming if we do not take the problems of today first. Today your freedom is the most important problem. Without it ,Your input means nothing. Which is more important today?Best answer:
Answer by Innocent
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Mar 20
Question by Johnny on the spot: What is the biggest environmental problem of today?
What is the biggest environmental problem of today? What is the cause? What will our world be like if we don’t resolve the problem?Best answer:
Answer by BoB
GLOBAL WARMING!!Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
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Feb 13
Question by dschmidty412: What Would Today Be Like If Al Gore Is President?
Not that I agree with everything Al Gore believes, just that in the last 8 years Bush has messed up everything in this country, and these days I don’t know anyone who can sit there and tell me Bush has done a good job.Has Bush become the worst president in the United States History?
Republicans what do you think of John McCain’s voting records regarding spending and George Bush?
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Answer by Kool-Aid
We would be spending $ 1 Trillion on the fight against Global Warming.Add your own answer in the comments!
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Aug 21
ENVIRONMENT and education were key issues influencing Ballarat voters today.
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Aug 21
The Environment Ministry’s Forest Advisory Committee will meet today to discuss recommendations of the N C Saxena panel report that seeks a ban on the mining projects of UK-based Vedanta Resources in Orissa.
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Aug 16
New Delhi, Aug 13 : The Supreme Court today directed Union Ministry for Environment and Forest to inform the apex court within two weeks whether Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s dream project in Noida is developmental project or a construction work.
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Aug 10
Are any of these being done today?
Best reply by Tashkent T:
If you define ‘mining activities’ to include the informal, artisanal sector, then in certain countries there are some terrible practises.
When a Western mining company wants to start a mining operation, there are environmental reviews and various conditions that need to be met & various obligations that are required of them. If an open pit is developed, then the pit may need to be filled back in after the ore has been processed & extracted. It may be that the pit needs to be redesigned for recreational or for fish farming use.
It is argued that reagents used by gold mining companies such as cyanide can be dangerous but even if cyanide were to leak, it breaks down quickly to harmless chemicals. Gold mineralisation is sometimes found in association with arsenic & unless the arsenic is carefully disposed of this can be a problem. In years gone by, such materials like arsenic & sulphurous gases were let out to pollute the environment through the roasting of ores. Today, there tends to be much stricter legislation that doesn’t allow this.
With regards to informal artisanal mines, no such planning permission is necessary. They may have noted that there is gold is a particular strream so they go ahead & mine it. A group of local miners can make quite an eye-sore of a stream bed as they excavate down to the rock layer on which the stream lay. The gravel is piled up on the side & often treated with mercury which isn’t always retreived & reused when the mercury is boiled off to obtain the gold. The mercury fumes may well find their way into the local flora & fauna.
Likewise, when these informal miners have exausted a particular site, they will never fill their pits back in, replace the top soil & plant trees. No, the site will simply be abandoned.
It is argued that informal miners operate on a very small scale & therefore cause no serious damage to the environment but when, as on occasions, there are 1,000s of miners working as teams with specific jobs to do within those teams, the amount of damage done can be significant. Following this mining, ground that had been used to grow crops appears to be permenantly sterile!
For these reasons, where grade & the size of an orebody justify, I favour large scale mining by Western mining companies that can be held to account for their lasting environmental impact.
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What types of mining activities are most damaging to the environment?
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