Choose from the following:
Clean Air Act (1970)
Clean Water Act (1972)
Endangered Species Act (1973)
Superfund Act (1980)
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
Select and review one government environmental policy referenced
Discuss the impact of the policy on you and your community, including the following questions:
How has the policy contributed to sustainability in your community?
How has the policy improved living conditions for people in your community? Consider biodiversity, economics, agriculture, health, etc.
In what ways is resource consumption reduced or stabilized as a result of the policy?
How does the policy promote stewardship of resources now and for future generations?
Sample Solution
I chose to review the Clean Air Act of 1970, which was enacted to address air pollution. The primary objective of this policy is to protect public health by regulating emissions from automobiles, power plants, and other sources of air pollution. This act has had a significant impact on my community as it has drastically improved our air quality over the past 50 years. By setting enforceable standards for allowable levels of air pollutants and emissions, the Clean Air Act has helped ensure that everyone in our community can breathe clean and healthy air.
Sample Solution
I chose to review the Clean Air Act of 1970, which was enacted to address air pollution. The primary objective of this policy is to protect public health by regulating emissions from automobiles, power plants, and other sources of air pollution. This act has had a significant impact on my community as it has drastically improved our air quality over the past 50 years. By setting enforceable standards for allowable levels of air pollutants and emissions, the Clean Air Act has helped ensure that everyone in our community can breathe clean and healthy air.
The second theory is ‘Liquid Modernity’ developed by Bauman. In liquid modernity, the web has a momentary value, the past and future become meaningless as coordinates of the psychological life of the individuals’ present (Bauman, 2009). The reason and reality tend to break down the subject having the illusion of being omnipotent, omnipresent and immortal (Carabellese et al., 2014). Therefore, on the web, the other cannot be met as a real person but in terms of an empty simulacrum, convenience and appearance (Baudrillard, 1981), lacking its own identity defined in its spatial and temporal coordinates (Cassinari, 2005).
Space Transition Theory concludes seven key postulates, (1) person, with repressed criminal behaviour (in the physical space) have a propensity to commit a crime in cyberspace which they would not commit in physical space, due to their status and position. Due to Rosica being an ex-cop restricted him committing a behaviour in physical space, as he had to maintain his status and position of being an ex-cop. (2) Identity flexibility, dissociative anonymity and the lack of deterrence factor in the cyberspace provides offenders with the choice to commit cybercrime. Rosica had the accessibility to create a fake online identity in which he did (Katy Jones), this was the identity flexibility factor. This meant that his real identity was hidden/anonymous (dissociative anonymity). And he also knew there is no certainty of punishment, especially with an unknown identity (lack of deterrence). (3) Criminal behaviour of offenders in cyberspace is likely to be imported into physical space, vice versa. Information was not given about Roscia’s physical stalking but he was charged five years for this being one of the reasons. (4) Intermittent ventures of offenders into the cyberspace and the dynamic spatiotemporal nature of cyberspace provide the chance to escape. Roscia knows that in cyberspace there is no continuous risk in getting caught, as the changing of space and time can contribute to the offenders’ escape. (5) (a) strangers are likely to unite together in cyberspace to commit a crime in the physical space and (b) associates of physical space are likely to unite to commit a crime in cyberspace. This claim does not apply t
