Dan's Environmental Health Blog

This course has been a good one. One truly relatable to everyday life. It has certainly opened my eyes to all the problems surrounding public/environemental health and this issues we need to fix more urgently than others. It is also quite amazing how much is brushed under the rug and ignored. This occurs through poor policy, compromised politicians, and big money weighing in on issue they should have no say in. The blogs were good. It did keep me on track with the modules once I got the hang of it. I think a couple small real world examples to discuss in class or in a small group that we then present on in that same class would be cool. Thank you for the informational great class Dr. Sattler. Dan

After watching the video and viewing the lecture in class I just don't see how a zero waste life is possible. I do however believe that the world could product less waste overall. Just going to one sporting event generates so much waste in many forms that I don't want to here how many tons of garbage and plastic is used over the course of a season. I think pharmaceutical waste is the most serious thing to take care of. When rivers and small streams are coming back positive for man made chemicals and pharmaceuticals we have an issue that needs to be addressed. Following this, plastic waste is the next thing to solve.

The thing that I find most troubling about climate change is clearly the temperature rise. The temperature rise with the domino effect of sea water rise is devastating. It will be a slow process and I think civilization will be fine. I worry about those that can't make decisions for themselves in this world or struggle to do so. Homeless, mentally impaired, elderly and the animals of our world. We are destroying everything in our path right now and leaving the frail and dependent behind.  The greatest attention needs to be fixing the carbon emission problem and relying less on fossil fuels, single use plastics, and chemical use for our everyday life. I think these three should be eradicated in the next decade or so.  I would start by explaining how we got to this point. How civilization, automation, and industrial revolutions shaped our world. Some things were terrible years ago, like dumping waste in to creek and soil. Laws were passed to prevent this. Others were gr...