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The illness in Planet Earth
[|BBC News]

View point of James Lovelock, a Gaian scientist, a general practitioner of planetary medicine about the current earth situation and it's future probability.
Summary: Scientist James Lovelock argued in The Green Room that "Planet Earth is unwell, Emissions of greenhouse gases and other environmental changes have brought humanity and the natural world to the edge of crisis." He mentioned The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report which mentioned that changes to the Earth by the end of this century which will be as great or greater than occurred between the end of the last Ice Age and the time when humans started changing the atmosphere. James pointed out that because of us, the climates, the emission of gases (carbon dioxide, methane, halocarbons, nitrous oxides) are greatly affecting the earth and we are also denuding forests, changing biodiverse lands into monoculture deserts, acidifying the oceans. He predicted that the world will get very hot, won't produce as much food as right now and billions of us will face starvation by the time the earth is really sick. He also expect the life on earth to be very grim in 100 years, people will migrate, some place like northern Canada may flourish... almost everything will be changed.

Relation to APES: This article is related to AP Environmental Science because it talks about air pollution--emission of gasses like carbon dioxide, methane, halocarbons and nitrous oxides (Miller 59), serious deforestation (Miller 645-664), decrease in biodiversity and aquatic ecology (Miller 187-204).

Opinion: In my opinion, I totally agree with this scientist, James Lovelock, although I am not a scientist or a environmental professional, I don't know what the earth might be like in one hundred years, two hundred years or a decade, but I do know that we human should stop polluting and affecting earth atmosphere in any kinds of means and should take serious and effectiveness actions to maintain the current earth condition or even make it better. Hundreds of little actions can make up to a big change. In my opinion, I would rather live in a beautiful and healthy environment than a fast developed but polluted environment.

Law:

This article related to the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990, which stated that Congress declares pollution should be prevented, products recycled, and if neither is feasible, it should be taken care of in an environmentally safe manner. If everyone obey the laws, and even do beyond them, I truly wish the planet earth will be healthy again as it first created.