Running Head: AIR AND WATER AIR AND WATER Air and Water Robert Jamerson Rasmussen College The Paris Agreement is an agreement which was formed on 12th December, 2015 by parties of United Nation Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) to fight climate change and accelerate and increase the activities and investments required for a maintainable low greenhouse gas emission to the environment. The Paris Agreement brings together all nations to fight climate change and develop adaptation measures to its effects and support developing countries to also combat climate change (Dimitrov, 2016). The goal is to intensify global response to climate change threat. In addition, the agreement focuses on increasing the capacity of countries to combat the effects of climate change and ensuring that there are finances for controlling the greenhouse gas emission and create climate resistant pathways. US should commit to Paris Agreement as climate change can only be minimized through global action. It is important for US to commit to Paris Agreement because it is part of ensuring that other countries remain committed to the agreement. This agreement is for the best interest of Americans at it creates business opportunities and minimizes the financial risks associated with climate change. Staying in this agreements supports business interests. US business could be disadvantaged I foreign markets if other countries committed to Paris Agreement decide to take actions balance the scales by trading with businesses in countries which do not regulate carbon. Leaving Paris Agreement could risk business interest of the country in the global market. It also advances the strategic interests of the country by enhancing diplomacy with the other countries. In the 21st century there is more air pollution which I believe will cause significant global warming. This is because there is a lot of air pollution due to aerosols and smoke released to the environment by industries. Carbon dioxide which is one of the greenhouse gases released to the environment continue to increase. Before the industrial revolution carbon dioxide level was around 280 parts per million. In the early 21st century the gas had increased its level to 384 parts per million and it is said to continue to rise at the rate of 2 parts per million each year (Hansen, Sato, Ruedy, Lacis & Oinas, 2000). Global warming takes place when carbon dioxide and other air pollutants accumulate in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation which has bounced back to the earth surface. These pollutants absorb the heat and cause the earth to become very hot. Paris Agreement will have a significant impact because it has regulations which member countries should follow to control climate change. Its main goal is to prevent the global temperatures form raising above 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times (Hulme, 2016). Scientist have indicated that the world temperatures have to remain below ...

1. Running Head: AIR AND WATER
AIR AND WATER
Air and Water
Robert Jamerson
Rasmussen College
The Paris Agreement is an agreement which was formed on 12th
December, 2015 by parties of United Nation Framework
Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) to fight climate
change and accelerate and increase the activities and
investments required for a maintainable low greenhouse gas
emission to the environment. The Paris Agreement brings
together all nations to fight climate change and develop
adaptation measures to its effects and support developing
countries to also combat climate change (Dimitrov, 2016). The
goal is to intensify global response to climate change threat. In
addition, the agreement focuses on increasing the capacity of
countries to combat the effects of climate change and ensuring
that there are finances for controlling the greenhouse gas
emission and create climate resistant pathways.
US should commit to Paris Agreement as climate change can
only be minimized through global action. It is important for US
to commit to Paris Agreement because it is part of ensuring that
other countries remain committed to the agreement. This
agreement is for the best interest of Americans at it creates
business opportunities and minimizes the financial risks
associated with climate change. Staying in this agreements

2. supports business interests. US business could be disadvantaged
I foreign markets if other countries committed to Paris
Agreement decide to take actions balance the scales by trading
with businesses in countries which do not regulate carbon.
Leaving Paris Agreement could risk business interest of the
country in the global market. It also advances the strategic
interests of the country by enhancing diplomacy with the other
countries.
In the 21st century there is more air pollution which I believe
will cause significant global warming. This is because there is a
lot of air pollution due to aerosols and smoke released to the
environment by industries. Carbon dioxide which is one of the
greenhouse gases released to the environment continue to
increase. Before the industrial revolution carbon dioxide level
was around 280 parts per million. In the early 21st century the
gas had increased its level to 384 parts per million and it is said
to continue to rise at the rate of 2 parts per million each year
(Hansen, Sato, Ruedy, Lacis & Oinas, 2000). Global warming
takes place when carbon dioxide and other air pollutants
accumulate in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar
radiation which has bounced back to the earth surface. These
pollutants absorb the heat and cause the earth to become very
hot.
Paris Agreement will have a significant impact because it has
regulations which member countries should follow to control
climate change. Its main goal is to prevent the global
temperatures form raising above 1.5 degrees Celsius above
preindustrial times (Hulme, 2016). Scientist have indicated that
the world temperatures have to remain below 2 degrees Celsius
in order to avoid catastrophic climate impacts. Also the Paris
Agreement increases the ability to adopt to adverse effects of
global warming and creating a resilient climate promoting low
greenhouse gas emission. It also has a significant impact as it
mobilizes funds to ensure that there is flow of finances to
ensure that the policies of climate control are implemented.
As the earth’s temperatures rise, evaporation of water to the

3. atmosphere increases, which increases the atmosphere’s ability
to hold water. This may make some areas to dry while other it
falls as precipitation. The rise in temperatures makes the
glacier ice to melt at an extraordinary rate. Glaciers are
important sources of fresh water in the globe. The glaciers are
at high risk of disappearing in this century and once they
disappear they cannot be restored and hence no water resource
in areas which dependent on them. In areas where there is high
precipitation high amount of rainfall occur which will lead to
floods and this causes excess water runoff making the area to
have less amount of water resources (Vörösmarty, Green,
Salisbury & Lammers, 2000). Finally global warming has
adverse impact on the hydraulic cycle which affects the water
resources available on the earth’s service leading to low
amounts of water level.
References
Dimitrov, R. S. (2016). The Paris agreement on climate change:
Behind closed doors. Global Environmental Politics, 16(3), 1-
11.
Hansen, J., Sato, M., Ruedy, R., Lacis, A., & Oinas, V. (2000).
Global warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative
scenario. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 97(18), 9875-9880.
Hulme, M. (2016). 1.5 C and climate research after the Paris
Agreement. Nature Climate Change, 6(3), 222.
Vörösmarty, C. J., Green, P., Salisbury, J., & Lammers, R. B.
(2000). Global water resources: vulnerability from
climate change and population growth. science, 289(5477), 284-
288.

4. Sources of Energy
Robert Jamerson
Rasmussen College
Sources of Energy
National policies that are made to develop the efficacy of
energy are crucial to economic development as well as job
creation, developing the reliability of the electric grid,
reduction of oil imports, air pollution and lowering the prices of
energy (Hannon, et.al, 2015).
Yes, I think it is prudent for the government to establish a
national energy policy. It is because the network, that are the
same and are related to the United States energy, remains rigid
and centralized. Just as the electricity gets generated centrally,
the policies of energy should be shaped by a single centralized
body.
The energy policy usually recommends to attain goals via
diverse measures like capacity building, institutional reform,
private participation and fiscal incentives. The policy I would
construct would outline the policies, challenges and goals
including: - energy conservation and efficiency and renewable

5. energy. The policy should target to achieve at least 80 % of
national electricity access as well as the universal access.
Non-renewable resources such as coal, natural gas and oil
get available in supplies that are limited. Normally, this is as a
result of the long time they take to get refilled. Renewable
resources on the other hand, are restocked naturally and above
comparatively short time phases (Shafiei & Salim, 2014). I
would emphasize on renewable energy because it can be used
repeatedly and cannot get exhausted. As far as I am concerned,
renewable energy is the most appropriate future for earth.
Basically, it is among the best models to bring forth value to the
planet or environment; and since this energy gets generated
from resources that are natural.
The problems in energy are currently getting ignored largely
despite their continuing significance. This lack of concern in
the long term is somewhat natural since the supplies in fuel are
overall adequate and prices are rather low relatively (Dogan &
Seker, 2016). As years pass by, the costs of energy and
technologies involved are also falling at a rate that is
sustainable, whilst the trend for general costs for fossil fuels is
usually in the other direction despite their current volatility. It
is fortunate that the available energy that can be renewed is
more than satisfactory if it gets well harnessed. On the other
hand though, everyone is starting from a point in which less
than 2 % of the energy in the universe is got from renewables
such as geothermal, solar and wind.
Renewable energies are a source of inexhaustible, clean and a
competitive energy that is increasing. Diverse countries that are
poor, such as Malawi, that are encountering issues in energy can
make enormous improvements. These technologies are different
from fossil fuels mainly in their potential, abundance and
diversity for use all over the planet. However, above all, they
get to produce neither polluting emissions nor greenhouse gases
that result in changes in climate. Also, energies that are clean
are available like the sun since they originate there as well as

6. adapt to cycles naturally, therefore the name “renewables.” I
still support renewable energy more because that aspect makes
them substantial in an energy system that is sustainable and
which permits for development in the contemporary world not
risking the generations to come.
References
Dogan, E., & Seker, F. (2016). The influence of real output,
renewable and non-renewable energy, trade and financial
development on carbon emissions in the top renewable energy
countries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 60,
1074-1085.
Hannon, M. J., Foxon, T. J., & Gale, W. F. (2015). ‘Demand
pull’government policies to support Product-Service System
activity: the case of Energy Service Companies (ESCos) in the
UK. Journal of Cleaner Production, 108, 900-915.
Shafiei, S., & Salim, R. A. (2014). Non-renewable and
renewable energy consumption and CO2 emissions in OECD
countries: A comparative analysis. Energy Policy, 66, 547-556.
Energy Challenges. (n.d.). Retrieved from Energy4Me:
http://energy4me.org/all-about-energy/energy-challenges/
Running Head: GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS
GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS

7. Genetically Modified Organisms
Robert Jamerson
Rasmussen College
Genetically modified organisms are organisms like plants,
animals, microorganism or any other organism which have had
its DNA modified through genetic engineering. The live we are
living in today is made up of GMOs like plants and animals.
Example of foods include dairy product, corn, beans and so
forth. The genetically modified organisms have a wide range of
benefits like they grow fast, have high nutrition value,
resistance to diseases and pesticides, tolerance to adverse
weather conditions, and have high conservation of water and
soil. Even though the benefits are more, there is a danger to the
environment and human health if the scientists not pay attention
to the genes used in breeding new organisms. The subject of
GMO is very controversial in the society today as some people
use the benefits while others use the risks to discuss it.
Even though scientific experts and major scientific authorities
over the word have declared that GMOs are safe, it is hard to
prove that it is safe but it can be said no hazards have been
shown to exist (Hug, 2008). They have the same nutritional
value as non-genetically modified organisms and have no links
to diseases, cancer and allergies. Before the organisms are
genetically modified, they undergo a very exhaustive research
and review and then they are released to the market. Averagely,
more than 75 studies are conducted to ensure that they are safe
for the animals and people as well as the environment. They are
harmless to animals and plants as they add the nutritional value
of the end product and also production of new breeds which are
more productive. Plants that are resistant to pesticides create a
better environment as they less poisonous runoff to the rivers.
Extensive studies are carried on from time to time to ensure that
GMOs are safe for human, animals as well as the environment.
Whether one believes that GMOs are safe or not, they need to
be labeled. Even though there are no health risks reported from

8. GMOs, it is important that GMOs in food be labeled at all
times. This is because people should be left to choose either to
use non-genetically modified foods or GMOs. It is the right of
the consumer to know the contents of the food they consume as
there is a percentage content that each person requires to
consume (Brody, 2018). Some people have allergic reaction to
chemicals or certain products which makes it important for
foods with GMOs to be labeled so that they can choose what
suits them. Another reason why labels are needed on GMOs is
ethical or religious reasons where they are not supposed to take
foods which I genetically modified. This will also may help in
clearing the doubt about safety of GMOs because consumers
will be sure of the content level of the product they are
consuming.
GMOs provide an economic benefit to people all over the world
due to the role they play of reducing the price of foods. The
productivity of crops all over the world has increased when
genetically engineered crops were planted. The environment is
also impacted positively as the farmers use less pesticides on
the crops which reduces the level of poisonous runoff to the
river sources (Grubbs, 2014). Also this technology of genetic
engineering has helped in curbing the climate change effects as
food supply can be available in areas with harsh climatic
conditions and salty soils. Developing countries with cases of
malnutrition are benefiting from GMOs as the crops produced
have high amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals required in
the body.
In conclusion, just like other industries, agricultural industry
has embraced technology and used it to become more
sustainable and lucrative. It is not clear whether GMOs are safe
or not but the benefits outdo the disadvantages. It is necessary
for GMO products be labelled because it is the right of the
consumer to know what they are consuming. GMOs have
impacted the world as they have provided alternative technology
that can increase food production and reduce food prices.
Through research needs to be done on GMOs to clear the doubt

9. of safety.
References
Brody, E.J. (2018). Are G.M.O food safe? The New York
Times. Retrieved from:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/well/eat/are-gmo-
foods-safe.html
Grubbs, M. E. (2014). Genetically modified
organisms. Technology and Engineering Teacher, 73(7), 24.
Hug, K. (2008). Genetically modified organisms: do the benefits
outweigh the risks? Medicina, 44(2), 87-99.
Environmental Experience
Robert Jamerson
Rasmussen College
Environmental Experience
A child’s identity improvement is molded through the
convictions and practices that relatives pass on to the child.
Individuals can enhance their lives by finding out about the
social foundations of others and about what every individual has
in the same way as society all in all. The impact of your
associates significantly impacts the improvement of your
identity. You don't, in any case, need to fit in with the decisions
of your associates. Your decisions ought to be your own. A
positive instructive condition can enable kids to build up a
feeling of themselves as students. This is a critical perspective
that helped me amid my initial a very long time in junior

10. school. People around me made a domain that underlined the
hugeness of training. Just by observing their photos of
graduation outfits on the divider, influenced me to feel the
significance of education (Prinz, 2012). Thankfulness for
learning can profit a person’s identity advancement all through
life. Each age creates inside its own arrangement of ecological
conditions.
Additionally, I visited numerous educational sites and numerous
parks that made me develop the love for animals. It was very
important because it changed my life positively as I related with
the animals in a great way. Still today, my relationship with
animals remains very strong. As one grows, it is imperative to
recreational centers as well because they are a great
environment that makes people grow know a lot of things.
We as a whole react to unobtrusive sub-cognizant
recommendations from our condition constantly. Individuals'
suggestibility can be capably affected by nature in which they
get themselves, and you can utilize ecological triggers - and
'triggers' can, obviously, incorporate a man's words - to seed
proposals which are later taken up by the individual tuning in to
you. The key thought here is that mesmerizing suggestibility
happens constantly (Palmer & Birch, 2013). What’s more,
usually the case that the wellspring of a proposal is really not a
hypnotherapist, accordingly, but rather the earth itself. For
instance, look into has demonstrated that an inconspicuous
foundation smell of cleaning fluid noticeable all around impacts
individuals to be detectably cleaner and tidier than they would
somehow or another be.
A while back I used to see a significant number of hypnotherapy
customers at our home do amusing things. I was struck by what
number of my dad's customers announced they generally had a
craving for blessing leaving after a session. Only after a few
months, I realized that my little child had stuck a modest smiley
sticker on the way to my bedroom. It was unmistakable, yet was
small to the point that it would have been not really perceptible
to individuals leaving the room.

11. The impact of your associate gathering (individuals about your
own particular age) may right now be one of the most grounded
powers throughout your life. Your family will keep on being a
solid impact; however your companions will likewise rise as an
imperative power. The effect of the two impacts will fluctuate
as you go through various formative phases of your life.
The educational experiences that influenced my understanding
and concern about environmental problems include:
1. Teachers views on the development of environmental
education.
1. Outdoor experiences in early days and parents.
1. Environmental education based on undeviating experience of
nature as a teaching stratagem.
I can conclude by saying that I have arrived at my ecological
identity through experiencing nature and also through formal
education since they go hand in hand.
References
Palmer, J.A. & Birch, J.C. (2013). Education for Sustainability:
the contribution and potential of a non-governmental
organization. Environmental Education Research, 9, pp. 447-
460.
Prinz, J. J. (2012). Beyond human nature: How culture and
experience shape the human mind. New York: W.W. Norton.