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**__ Effects of Globalization on the Environment Essay __**

The effects of globalization on the environment can be terrible. Some examples include global warming, pollution, deforestation, and endangered species. Global Warming is a very debatable topic between the government and scientists. Global Warming is the earth's rise in temperature over time. Pollution is also a huge factor relating to global warming. There are multiple forms of pollution but the most deadly is acid rain. Nuclear power plants or any gas admission from plants fills clouds in the skiy. Then, percipitation brings the pollution back to earth in a constant cycle. Also, deforestation is a big problem. Hundreds of trees are cut down yearly and without them being replaced, animal habitats are destoyed. Endangered species come because of deforestation. Species of animals are extinct and endangered annually because of habitat destruction.

Drastic climate change is also a problem threatening the earth. A climate change is a change in the statistical distrubution of weather over periods of time that decades from decades to millions of years. Scientists that argue that global warming is occuring, but by natural processes is Sallie Baliunas, astronomer. "The recent warming trend in the surface temperature record cannot be caused by the increase of human-made greenhouse gases in the air." Scientists that do not believe that global warming is occuring, Timothy F. Ball, former Professor of Geography, University of Winnipeg: "The world's climate warmed from 1680 up to 1940, but since 1940 it's been cooling down.

The Kyoto protacol was passed by the U.N. to limit the the uses of green house gasses to those who agreed to the terms across multple countries. It reguires certain filters on factories and other attempts to limit the green house gases.Global warming has raised wareness of green house gases and has encouraged people around the world to do more for the enviorment.

We see environmental issues ignored by industrialization because companies just want to expand and make money. People dont really care the effects of what their doing on the environment. Buisness men and woman skip over the fact that what they are doing to increase buisness revinue and money they are in turn creating more problems! The government and legislation are trying to create laws and regulation to make people more aware of what is happening to the environment. Some examples of laws are the clean air act, which was created to protect public health and public welfare and to regulate emissions of hazardous air pollutants. Even the endangered animals act which is there to help keep endangered animals and plant species safe from being extinct. Another act is called the Energy policy act where energy efficiency; renewable energy; oil and gas; coal; nuclear matters and security; vehicles and motor fuels, including ethanol; hydrogen; electricity; energy tax incentives; hydropower and geothermal energy; and climate change technology.

Large industries or countries can do alot to protect the environment. Such as smarter fuel alternatives or renewable energy sources which are safer for the environmentor they can lower greenhouse gas emission. They can also dispose of hazardous materials correctly like chemicals and pestisides. You can contribute too, by simply doing small things like saving electricity, recycling, minimizing vehicle use by carpooling, riding a bike, and cutting down on water use.