Global Warming - German School Text Books and State Policies
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Germany faces significant environmental issues from air pollution and acid rain. As a top manufacturing country, it depends heavily on factories that burn fossil fuels, producing harmful gases. These gases mix with water in the clouds to create acid rain, over half of which has destroyed Germany's Black Forest, harming its timber economy. The European Union has implemented policies since 1993 to curb acid rain, air pollution, toxic waste and overall pollution among its member countries, though some Eastern European nations still have high industrial pollution and radiation levels.
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1. Germany faces environmental issues like acid rain and air pollution due to its large manufacturing industry and number of cars.
2. Acid rain has destroyed nearly half of Germany's Black Forest by harming plant life and the timber economy.
3. European countries are trying to reduce pollution through new technologies, alternative fuels, and policies from the European Union.
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The document discusses several environmental issues affecting different parts of Europe:
1) Air pollution in the UK is caused by power stations, industries, and vehicle emissions. It has been linked to early deaths and heart attacks.
2) Acid rain affects Germany due to air pollution. It damages vegetation and contaminates drinking water.
3) In 1986, a nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) caused radioactive fallout across Europe. It contaminated land, caused health issues and birth defects, and had long-lasting economic impacts.
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1) Several European countries face significant environmental issues. Germany struggles with water pollution from industrial waste and outdated sewage systems, as well as air pollution from vehicles and coal burning. Ukraine continues to deal with the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which contaminated large areas and increased cancer rates.
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1. Germany faces environmental issues like acid rain and air pollution due to its large manufacturing industry and number of cars.
2. Acid rain has destroyed nearly half of Germany's Black Forest by harming plant life and the timber economy.
3. European countries are trying to reduce pollution through new technologies, alternative fuels, and policies from the European Union.
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The document discusses several environmental issues affecting different parts of Europe:
1) Air pollution in the UK is caused by power stations, industries, and vehicle emissions. It has been linked to early deaths and heart attacks.
2) Acid rain affects Germany due to air pollution. It damages vegetation and contaminates drinking water.
3) In 1986, a nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) caused radioactive fallout across Europe. It contaminated land, caused health issues and birth defects, and had long-lasting economic impacts.
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1) Several European countries face significant environmental issues. Germany struggles with water pollution from industrial waste and outdated sewage systems, as well as air pollution from vehicles and coal burning. Ukraine continues to deal with the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which contaminated large areas and increased cancer rates.
Environmental issues
Germany faces significant environmental issues from air pollution and acid rain. Major sources of air pollution in Germany are coal-burning factories and vehicle emissions in large cities. This pollution contributes to acid rain when sulfur and nitrogen oxides react in the atmosphere to form acids. Acid rain has severely damaged forests, especially the Black Forest, harming Germany's timber economy. While Western European countries have enacted policies to reduce pollution, Germany and other Eastern European countries need to further develop renewable energy and implement more stringent environmental protection policies.
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The greenhouse effect refers to the trapping of heat in the lower atmosphere due to certain gases like carbon dioxide and water vapor. These gases absorb infrared radiation emitted from the earth's surface and radiate it back down, warming the surface. Increased levels of carbon dioxide from human activities like burning fossil fuels are enhancing the greenhouse effect and causing global warming, defined as a rise in average surface temperatures. Some natural causes of increasing temperatures include volcanic eruptions and forest fires, but human factors like emissions from factories, vehicles, and aerosol sprays are also significant contributors to global warming and its effects.
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Over the past 30 years, acid rain caused by air pollution from factories and vehicles has severely damaged Germany's environment. It has dissolved nutrients from soil, harmed trees, and destroyed nearly half of the Black Forest, impacting the country's timber economy. In response, Germany is replacing coal-burning factories with renewable energy sources like hydroelectric, wind, and solar power, and passing laws to reduce emissions in order to mitigate the harmful effects of acid rain.
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Industries in the department, like Coke, seriously affect the local and global climate through carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions are depleting the ozone layer and causing climate change. Companies use devices and processes that rely on inorganic, non-organic substances and chemicals that also harm the environment. The packaging materials used are another factor impacting the climate. International agreements like the Kyoto Protocol aim to limit these emissions through penalties, as uncontrolled emissions can be very costly. The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement to reduce emissions of six greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere and greatly damages the ozone layer, so reducing emissions is important.
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Germany faces issues with acid rain and air pollution from vehicles and coal burning industries. Acid rain has destroyed 1/4 of the Black Forest and harmed the timber economy. The government is working to meet EU standards and establish nature preserves.
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Millennium Villages
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Module 9 Discussion in Forum
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Regulating the Atmospheric Commons
Snarr & Snarr, Chap 14
Module
8
Tragedy of the Commons
Commons
resources that are shared or collectively owned
Tragedy of the Commons
a situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently, and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen.
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- 1. GTS 2001 Haupt- und Realschule Ferdinand Salfer Str. 3, 28857 Syke, Germany
- 2. Our talk is divided into two parts: First we shall say, what we found in the school text books on climate change. In the end we shall show – where stands Germany in CO2 emmission? What is public opinion and what is being done to reduce greenhouse gases?
- 3. *Our class analysed 25 Chemistry and Physics text books. Only in three books, the topic „climate change“ is dealt with.
- 4. 1.Natural 2.„Artificial“ or „human made“
- 5. Without natural green house effect the earth temperature will be (-18°C).
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- 10. *“THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE HAS STOPPED RISING *THE EARTH HAS BEEN WARMER IN THE RECENT PAST (The Arctic was warmer in the 1930s than it is today). *COMPUTER MODELS ARE NOT RELIABLE *CLIMATE IS MAINLY INFLUENCED BY THE SUN *WATER VAPOUR IS BIGGER GREENHOUSE GAS THAN CO2”
- 12. *Germany- 6th *U.K. -7th *Italy – 9th *France-11 *Poland -17 *Turkey – 20 *Netherlands 21 *Greece - 33 *Romania - 34 *Portugal - 39 *Latvia-94
- 13. *“Car Clash: Germany Blocks CO2 Reduction Deal” *“…. In the end, Germany got its way and managed to delay an EU decision on lowering the amount of CO2 European-made cars may emit.” *Why so? The argument from the politicians is that the Germany export and economy heavily depend on the car industry.
- 15. *If the German economy does not react at the right time, the destruction due to climate change may cause 800 Billion Euro until 2050. *„Greenpeace“ wants the German Government to reduce CO2 up to 40 % until 2020!, and *From the EU and industrial countries the reduction up to 30 %.
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