Environment:Vincent W

This week, I read an article titled “Trump administration launches project to keep plastic waste out of oceans”, Which is an article that focuses on plastic pollution and how we can defeat this problem. The main idea of this article is that we need to stop polluting the world and try to help the world by joining the movement of stopping plastic pollution created from either our gov’t or other countries. One idea that I found interesting was that China was actually trying to help the plastic pollution problem by buying millions of tons of trash/plastic from other countries and remaking it into raw materials. I thought this was interesting because China is pretty much the main manufacturer of literally anything so when I heard that they were trying to help the plastic epidemic I was very surprised. This fact made me wonder how many other countries are doing this to try helping the plastic pollution problem, so i looked up some more information about this idea. On the website ¨...

This week, I read 2 articles about two very different topics. The first one I read about was titled “Turkeys in your neighborhood”, which is an article that focuses on (you guessed it) Turkeys living in neighborhoods. The second article was titled “An environmental movement for times of war too”. This is an article that focuses on the Geneva Convention, Oil farms, and environmental destruction started by man. The main idea of the first article is that the reason why turkeys are invading our cities and suburbs is due to the fact we’re over logging, and hunting less when we need to hunt more to keep population down. One idea that I found interesting was that because we are expanding and cutting down trees, the growing turkey population has nowhere to go besides for in our backyards. I thought this was interesting because I feel like a VERY easy solution to this problem is to have more people shoot turkeys to regulate the population. The main idea of the second article is that th...