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Ariana Mustakis

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Mrs.Dunne

03/30/17

The Cause of An Unhealthy Environment

Everyone has seen that picture of that polar bear standing on ice floating in the water. The

picture represents global warming and what is happening to our animals. Why is there a polar

bear in the ocean floating on ice? The cause of this is people polluting our earth. To limit the

amount of polluting, Obama, our former president of the United States, developed a set of

regulations to limit the amount of carbon emissions as well as other greenhouse gases (Kaslar

and Sabalow). However, our current president, Donald Trump, is rolling back those rules Obama

created during his time in presidency to make sure our Earth will be in better shape. But, rolling

back these regulations can not only damage our environment, but it also affect human beings.

For example, out water that we drink from becomes contaminated. Our air as well will be more

filthy due to people not caring and polluting. Our air becoming more dirty also results in an

increase in kids having asthma (Mass DEP). If we continue polluting without regulations, there

are animals that will die off. Our contaminated water in our lakes, ponds, and rivers affect the

fish in the water. Just imagine the fish lying down on the beaches with no movement. Imagine

how filthy our air would look as it blocks the sunlight as it makes an attempt to peek through the

pollution clouds. President Trump has specific plans to dismantle Obamas policies to regulate

the amount of carbon being emitted into the environment. Trump has specific things he can do
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while he rolls back these regulations such as create a set of better and friendly regulations.

However, this may take a long time. He could have kept Obamas regulations since they are

friendly enough.What Trump is doing is a wrong and a disgusting act. Our president, Donald

Trump, should not rollback these rules back during his presidency as it would make our

environment worse and rolling back these regulations can cause both our animals as well as

humans to become unhealthy. However, rolling back these regulations is supported because of

the amount of money that it will cost but, rolling back these regulations, would destroy our

environment and the health of the people.

People who are exposed to high levels of certain air pollutants can experience multiple

effects. For example, it is said to cause, irritation of the eyes, nose, or throat. Also, wheezing,

coughing, chest tightness, and breathing difficulties. What this also does is increase the risk of a

heart attack. (Mass DEP) Much like humans, it affects the wildlife. Studies show air toxins

contribute to birth defects, reproductive failure, and disease. As a result of pollution, the

population of both animals and humans will decrease due to the failure of reproduction, disease,

and heart attacks. If we want to remain healthy human beings there should be a decrease in

pollution. The increase in toxins also damages our crops and forests. Damage to forests and

crops also result from acid rain which is also due to pollution in the atmosphere (Mass DEP).

With the damage of trees, where will we get our oxygen? No where. Our crops getting destroyed

will have us with no crops like, wheat, potatoes, carrots, and more. Eutrophication is caused by

pollution as well. It is a condition in any body of water where high concentration of nutrients for

example, nitrogen, stimulate algae growing which can cause fish to die off and loss of plant of

animal diversity in the water (Mass DEP). The depletion of the ozone layer is also one of the
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multiple effects of the disgusting act of pollution. Ozone is a gas that occurs both at ground level

and in the earths upper atmosphere. The Ozone layer is the layer that protects the earth from

harmful UV rays from the sunlight. If this gets destroyed, then the amount of skin cancer will

increase as well as cataracts and an impaired immune system in human beings. (Mass DEP).

Trump has specific ways to dismantle the laws created by Obama to regulate carbon

emissions.Trump stated, In eliminating this rule, I am continuing to keep my promise to the

American people to get rid of wasteful regulations. How is these regulations according to

President Donald Trump, Wasteful? The regulations he is canceling are meant to help the

American people become healthier, to prevent crops from destroying, and have animals not

become extinct (Dlouhy). The Trump administration, is expected to issue the coming weeks

include one to suspend the governments use of a metric known as the social cost of carbon

until it can be reviewed and recalculated (Dlouhy). Trump, already signed legislation to repeal

an Obama-era regulation that required coal mining companies to clean up streams after they are

done with their work. Now, not having coal mine workers clean up the streams once they are

done working leaves the water to become contaminated. Our water becoming dirty causes the

fish and other specimen in the waters to die off (Dlouhy).

Trump has limits, however, on what he can do as President and as he rolls back these

regulations. Obama issued a banning new leasing of coal mines on public lands during his

presidential term. Richard J Lazarus, a professor of environmental law at Harvard University

claimed, Anything that was done without a lot of process up from can be undone without much

process. This action taken by President Trump will be fast but however, it is not known what will

happen to peoples job. (Davenport). What Lazarus means is that there is a possibility about
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people working in the coal mines will possibly lose their job. The social cost of carbon is $36 per

ton of damage inflicted by carbon pollution. Obamas E.P.A plugged the social cost of carbon

into formulas to create an economic justification for regulations to imoise a measurable cost on

polluters. It is expensive is which why people would support the rolling back of these

regulations. What Trump can do is create an economic rationale to undo those rules and replace

them with industry friendly ones (Davenport). Hopefully, Trump will do so to make our

environment safe and healthy but, he did state that Obamas similar policies was unnecessary so

it is a possibility he will not make these rules happen. Obamas waters of the United States

regulation gave the federal government broad latitude to limit pollution in major bodies of water.

Our current president, can revoke the rule. However, revoking the rule, will not be an easy task

for President Trump. Revoking this rule or putting an end to it, will make our water more filthy

due to the pollution and we wont have any cleaning water (Davenport). Therefore, rolling back

these regulations will not have us our clean water and this will be bad for the people.

President Donald Trump, should not roll back these regulations made by former President

Obama because it will cause our environment to be destroyed. There are many people with

asthma in the United States. With the regulations being rolled back, this can make asthma worse

or even cause people to be unhealthy. Also we will have people with more heart disease and

cataracts due to all the pollution in the environment. We will be called the garbage country rather

than a the land of the free. Imagine still what our Earth would be like.Our water contaminated,

the air that we breathe is contaminated from all the pollution that we had in the past, and animals

like the Polar bear, died off due to global warming. That is what earth will look like if we dont

do something about pollution. Trump should not rollback the regulations created by President
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Obama to limit carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases.

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Works Cited

-Davenport, Coral. What Trump Can and Cant Do to Dismantle Obamas Climate Rules. New

York Times, 25 Jan. 2017. Accessed 28 Mar. 2017. Donald Trump, our current president

has things that he can do when he is rolling back these rules created by former president,

Obama, to regulate carbon emissions to help the environment. This article states what he

is doing with the carbon emissions regulations which will help with my paper and get to

the point why I am against President Trumps moves.

-Dlouhy, Jennifer A. How Trump is planning to dismantle Obama-era policies on carbon

emissions and water pollution - Chicago Tribune. Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2017.

Accessed 21 Mar. 2017. Trump has many ways to dismantle Obamas policies to regulate

carbon emissions. The article says also what will happen when he does roll back these

rules. This article will help with the argument because it says what will happen when he

does and as the title states, how he is planning to rollback these policies.

-Mass DEP. Accessed 28 Mar. 2017. This article that was chosen, explains the environmental

effects of pollution. It explains was well how both humans and nature will be effected.

This will help the argument of being against Trump rolling back these policies and will

explain why the argument is against rather than for.

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=Trump moves to roll back pollution standards for cars, setting up conflict with California | The

Sacramento Bee. Sacbee. The article states what the reaction of California is after there

was an announcement of Trump rolling back these policies. This helps with the argument

because it states what he is doing and how a state opposes the action of rolling back a

carbon emission policy to help earth.