Essays on Environmental Protection

Marine pollution is one of the greatest threats to humanity and nature. For instance, plastic pollution has recently become a disaster which has significantly created global issues. Plastic accumulation in our oceans and on our beaches has led to a global crisis. Billions of pounds...

One of the reasons why the issue of ocean pollution is currently relevant is marine life. In this report, I want to note the importance of the ocean’s ecosystem – and to explore the factors that threaten it. I am going to research various solutions...

“In December 2017, President Donald Trump signed two proclamations attempting to remove federal protections from roughly 2 million acres of land in Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.” This is the largest reduction of public land/national park protections in U.S. history, that will...

When you think of a national park, your first thoughts might be about The Grand Canyon or Yellowstone. We think about large landscapes and tons of woodland creatures. However, not many of us think about oceans and this is a problem. There are a number...

In this essay, I will explicate and then evaluate the effectiveness of three different arguments for environmentalism. I will start with the rights-based approach, and then move on to utilitarianism, and lastly I will focus on the virtue of simplicity approach. The stated goals for...

With neo-liberalism approaching its peak, free market environmentalism has become the basis of many environmental policies, especially in developing nations (or global south). Free-market environmentalism argues that the free market and property rights provide the best means of preserving the environment, internalizing pollution costs, and...

Iraq situated in West Asia, has been a nation strife with wars and conflicts. These, inevitably, have had a profoundly negative impact on the country’s environment. Along with these, climate change, water disputes, the aftermath of ISIS’s scorched-earth policies, have only added to the government’s...