CW7-3923
From Environmental Technology
Revision as of 21:23, 24 March 2006
A. Abstinence-Only Education, Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act, Emergency Contraceptive, United States Agency for International Development, United Nations Population Fund, Childhood Mortality, The National Family Planning Program: Title X.
- The Title X Program seems to work well because you can get help from this program no matter what your economical conditions are.
- The EPICC Act works well because it is extremely cost-effective.
- The Abstinence Only program would work well if people would follow it. Then all these problems wouldn't even be here.
- The USAID program has many benefits. Protecting the environment by stabilizing population growth, Protecting the health of women by reducing high risk pregnancies, Protecting the health of children by allowing sufficient time between pregnancies, and Working to fight against HIV/AIDS by providing information and counseling just to name a few.
B. Current consumption patterns stress limited natural resources and create wasteful and even toxic byproducts that affect the quality of life in communities around the world. Water is a resource that we can no longer afford to overconsume. More than 508 million people in 31 countries face water scarcity in the world today. By 2025, this number will increase to 3 billion. We also lose one or more entire species of animal or plant life every twenty minutes - some 27,000 species a year.
The spread of hazardous chemicals and pollutants globally is directly related to the increased amount of technological activity and the irresponsible handling of the waste created
