If Americans continue to live as if technology is the most important thing, then there will be no technology and no improved quality of life for future generations. The scientist Wesselman underlines Nainoa's words with statistics, that current data on global warming suggests that the earth's increasing overall temperatures have exceeded normal expectations of variation in climate fluctuation (216). "The warming [trend] since 1957" when careful records began to be kept by scientists, "has been remarkably uniform over the east-west extent of the northern Atlantic" (217). In Africa, the glaciers on Mount Kenya have already shrunk by forty percent since 1963 (216).
These are all measurable statistics and facts. Deprived of science as a result of scientific so-called progress, Nainoa has the wisdom of a shaman, not a scientist, but the emotional impact he has upon Wesselman is profound. Nainoa is wise, even in a world lacking in science, perhaps even more wise than the scientists of the present, who doubt the truth of global warming based upon their biased views of the evidence, in the wake of political influence. Nainoa is uncomfortable in a modern kitchen, seeing a car or asphalt, yet he has an important message and a way of communicating with Wesselman that is equally powerful as science (50).
The fact that scientists have not sounded the alarm in America, the nation that is perhaps best able to do something to change the current state of environmental affairs in the world, shows how science itself is not completely objective. Scientists have become pressured by politicians to state that global warming evidence is not as dire as it might seem. The combination of fact and fantasy makes the reality of what humanity is doing to the planet...
He further protested that exempting many developing countries from the five percent reduction clause would place many American industries at a disadvantage in the world market. For the past decade, the United States government has tried to lower air pollution levels through legislation. Because car emissions are probably the greatest contributor to air pollution, states like California have initiated strict "zero emission vehicle" policies in 1990. Under this mandate, all
(Ward; Mohapatra; Mitchell, 2008) The Great Lakes also contain large amounts of 'polychlorinated dibenzo-furans - PCDFs' and 'polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins -PCDDs' which are a result of the chlorine bleaching process of paper and pulp mills. In a nation wide study conducted for a period of 4 years on samples of fish and shellfish from various freshwater and marine water bodies in Canada, it was found that the fish from the Great
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