Environment

Few days ago, I had a dinner with some friends I haven’t seen for a while who are doing chemical engineering in a pretty good uni(petrol chemical to be specific).

The discussion went on to environmental issues and interestingly, I noticed that they are very anti environmentalist. They said something like, global warming isn’t the industry’s fault, it’s natural, they can’t blame our nation, the environmentalist are crazy and the profit forgone due to regulation are nonsense etc.

Upon asking, I realise that most of what they said and believed came from their lecturers….

Being a scientist who we spend most of our time on research and try to minimise impact on our environment, I just couldn’t believe that the foundation of our social knowledge, universities, are actually propagating those ideas.
Lecturers should only present objective information to students not personal biased beliefs. Do universities review their teaching staff?
ChemEng and Sunshine have some very good points and I believe that what I’ve seen is just an individual case.

However, it’s imperative that universities monitor their staffs’ behaviour so things like this won’t happen again.

Thanks

Whilst it’s hard to comment on individual cases, chemical engineers are at the forefront of the battle against climate change and many of the challenges facing the modern world.

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) – the worldwide membership group for chemical, process and related engineers – has just published it’s Technical Strategy, a roadmap for the future of chemical engineering and what the profession can do to tackle the issues facing our planet.

You can download a free copy at http://www.icheme.org/roadmap2007.pdf

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I am a consultant about to launch a new service on Long Island in New York (June) in environmental and greening. I am interested in talking to anyone that might currently be doing the same sort of thing for the printing and graphics industry.

Try checking the ForestEthics website. Sounds like exactly what they are doing.

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The issue is caused by industry and personal choices.
The effects may have major implications for the economy, health care, immigration, disaster relief, and the availability of water, food, and energy.
Deciding how to respond involves decisions on personal and societal mores and values.
The solutions must encompass industrial policy, transportation policy, regional planning, energy policy, international relations and collaboration, and so much more.

Since it’s such an all-encompassing scenario, starts with people and ends with effects on people, and since most of the human scope of the effects are not studied or addressed in the course of environmental science, why does it get tucked away as an "environmental" issue? Most of us see the "environment" as being something outside of "us." Sure, the environment will change along the way, but isn’t the issue far broader and greater, and ultimately more about our choices, and the effects those will have on us?
My guess is that it’s a calculated political move to marginalize support for responses to global warming. Environmentalists embrace it, while everyone else is glad it’s off their plate. Environmentalists can lead the charge tadn the rest of us can wait to see how it turns out. Isn’t that why after 20 years none of the other disciplines is responding (architecture, regional planning, etc)? It’s not their problem.

This is what prompted me to ask the question:

"Disaster preparedness is not an environmental problem." It is a hallmark of environmental rationality to believe that we environmentalists search for "root causes" not "symptoms."

The Death of Environmentalism
Global warming politics in a post-environmental world
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/01/13/doe-reprint/

Maybe we’re all missing the point by arguing about the causes instead of focusing on the responses?

And what if you’re wrong? Then you’re just wasting time and resources.

How do you know it isn’t going to be colder 5 years from now?

I’m doing an assignment for economics (we are studying environmental economics at the moment) and I need to find some externalities for the mining industry, preferably in Western Australia, but I’m guessing they would be quite similar around the world.

though similar each area in the world is different
the conditions left after the flood, eathquakes volcanoes etc
leaves different rock structures and minerals for mining
i can only guess about western Austrialia
you have to look up what type of mines/minerals being mined are there

example, coal, iron, copper

coal mining goes into the deapth of the earth in tunnels, extracting the coal and refilling the beds removed with ’side diggings’
other types of mines are surface scaling off levels of rock

so you have to be aware of the type of mining and how it is done.

positive is recieving the product of that particular mine
negative can vary from environmental looks changing
to poisonous gas released or produced in the mining
erosion of the earth etc

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I have a Bachelors degree in Business Administration with a concentration in finance and an MBA with a concentration in marketing (both from traditional universities). I am interested in this field and have even considered going back to school to get a degree in environmental engineering. Does anyone know any companies that could use someone with my educational background? or do you have any tips on how i could get into this industry?

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How can the agriculture industry (producers, processors, etc.) reach out to the public to gain their support on important issues impacting agriculture?
•Environmental Preservation
•Animal Welfare
•Food Safety
•Energy Production

Education is key in getting consumers to understand what the issues are even about. Getting agriculture issues involved more in schools, talking about the issues through the media, and getting the nonsense that PETA and similar groups put into the consumer heads straightened out are some of the biggest factors. Consumers are extremely uneducated about a lot of ag issues, take for instance pesticides found on produce at the grocery store. The amount of pesticide that would have to be on the produce is A LOT to even make a person sick. Hormones given to dairy cattle- no tests have shown that they can lead to birth defects or cause cancer in humans. Information is taken and twisted so badly that consumers don’t even know what to believe.

Education and correct information given is the number one issue to consider when trying to get consumers to support ag issues.

How do you reconcile working in Environmental Consulting and the fact that you may be aiding dirty industry?

go to college, major in Biology>>Environment Science with a minor in Economics>>Public Economics or >>Environmental

I gotta warn you, this is not the highest paying job.