Essay Assignment
Topics: Global Warming/Climate Change
-Scientific evidence for or against GW
Love Canal
-Any Superfund sites
Greater Pacific Garbage Patch
-The impact is it having on ocean ecosystems
-How to remediate the problem
BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
-Any oil spill disaster
Deforestation
-Effect on animal populations
-Palm oil harvesting and its effect on the orangutan populations
World's Growing Population/Overpopulation
-How can the environment maintain high population numbers (food, housing, travel, etc.)
Lack of Fresh Water Supplies
-Globally issues
Increasing Number of Endangered Species
-Within the USA or Worldwide
-Conservation efforts
The Effects of GMOs on the Environment
-Fear of the superbug
Alternative Waste Disposal Methods
-What are the current methods and what alternative do we have
Natural Resource Depletion
-USA depletion or global depletion
Environmental Laws/Crimes
-Environmental case studies
Carbon Footprint Reduction
-Residential carbon footprint
-Industrial carbon footprint
Almost any current topic we discussed at the beginning of class
Essay:
Three pages
Double space
Times New Roman
Size 12 Font
MLA format (essays must be cited).