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Week 9 Prompt
Externalities and Air Quality
One of the words associated with pollution & economics
is
externalities
. This is not a word you'll find in
Fundamentals of the Human Mosaic
. You'll find it in
courses on economic geography, economics courses on
natural reso
urces, environmental toxicology, and the list
goes on.
Externalities
are the positive or negative effects
on a person, or a group of people, who did not choose
that effect. So, when you come across the term, you're
likely to see it paired with the word "ne
gative" or the
word "positive" because unintended consequences can
be negative or positive. If manufacturing operations emit
air pollution that negatively affect everyone for miles
downwind of the manufacturing area of a city, we can
call the air pollution
a
negative externality
for anyone
who lives in, works in, or passes through that area. If you
buy or lease an electric vehicle because you can charge it
at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) for the price of your parking
pass, you are getting great benefits, but the
p
ositive
externalities
of your choices are cleaner air for everyone who spends time at or near CPP.
The chapter on economic geography covers some of the types of pollution that are linked to
our economic activities. For this prompt, you'll explore
one
of
the many thousands of famous
pollution problems. I would like everyone to try to focus on the areas of
acid rain
,
global
warming
(enhancing the greenhouse effect to trap too much heat),
climate change
(this is what
happens when you warm the planet),
radioa
ctive pollution
, and
ozone depletion
. These all
have an air pollution component, however it is okay to spend your prompt talking about other
types of externalities (negative or positive). Below, you'll find a list of terms to get you started.
They may be p
laces where something happened, a type of disaster, or something else. It is up
to you to figure out what they refer to and decide what you want to write about, however I
would like to see a diversity of approaches. So, if someone has already written about
Fukushima Daiichi and you really want to, then you'll have to find different information. For
example, if someone talks about the ongoing effects around the nuclear plant in Japan,
someone else could discuss the impacts on newborn babies in California tha
t
were
linked to the
nuclear radiation that travelled across the Pacific Ocean. If you want to write about electric
vehicles, remember that the focus should be the impact of those vehicles on air quality/air
pollution.
Your response should be
at least
200
words
. It should include the following:
(1)
A description of the problem you have chosen to investigate. Try to be precise, but do
not plagiarize. Even if you're talking about positive externalities, there is a "problem" to
discuss. Ex: Electric vehicles help
solve the problem of dirty car exhaust in a world where
Beijing Smog (Business Insider
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view the source)
Week 9 Prompt
more and more people start driving every day.
(2)
Is the problem ongoing, or was it fixed? Ex: If one disaster is over with and the effects of
the pollution were remediated, is the same thing likely to
occur again somewhere else?
(3)
Discuss the problem in terms of how it can be fixed or prevented and reference
something else in the textbook (preferably from chapter nine). This last requirement is
the tricky one. You do not need to quote the textbook (but y
ou can). By now you should
have learned a lot about how the planet is changing. You should also know something
about how
uneven
the planet is in terms of resource distribution, the distribution of
wealth, the different levels of development around the worl
d, and more. It will be
helpful to read pp. 250
-‐
252 to learn more about
economic development
. What I would
like to see is careful consideration of how things can get better. If the problem was
avoidable, how can it be avoided? Who should be responsible for
solving the problem
you examined? Or, who should be responsible for preventing it in the future? There are
ways to avoid radioactive pollution, ozone depletion, and global warming, and there are
ways to fix some of what has been done. There are almost alw
ays things that can be
done to prevent negative externalities in the future. Is the answer to preventing or
reversing the problem in technology? Is it in resources (more money, more
development, less development, etc.)? In passing better laws or winning co
urt cases? I
am leaving it a bit open ended for you to choose how you want to respond to part three.
Finally,
(4)
I
nclude at least one graphic, image, chart, video link or other type of media to help
illustrate your chosen topic.
"Externalities & Air Quality"
(A partial list of possible topics, in no particular order):
•
Chernobyl
•
Bhopal
•
Hanford Nuclear
•
Three Mile Island
•
Acid rain from the U.S. falling on Canada
•
The ozone hole
•
The Montreal Protocol
•
The Kyoto Protocol
•
Fukushima Daiichi
•
Ozone problems in Argentin
a
•
1948 Donora Smog
•
Smog in Los Angeles
•
Catalytic converters
•
1952 Great Smog
•
Particulates in Bakersfield/the Central
Valley
•
Particulate pollution in Los
Angeles/Southern California
•
Pesticide Drift
•
2006 Southeast Asian Haze
•
The Dust Bowl (US/Canada) (more o
f a
land issue, but dust storms kill)
•
1983 Melbourne dust storm
•
Kuwaiti oil fires
•
Yokkaichi asthma
•
Castle Bravo fallout
•
Windscale fire
•
Mayak nuclear waste
•
Bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
•
Hybrid vehicles
•
Electric vehicles
•
Biodiesel
•
Ethanol
•
Flexfuel vehicles
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