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Environment and Health
2018-2019


The Sixth Extinction: The Duty of the Dominant Species to Undo an Ecological Downfall
A catastrophic event is underway. We are in the midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction, a modern and human-made extinction. The megafauna...
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The Environmental and Ethical Impacts of the Meat Industry and Possible Solutions
Humans have been consuming the meat of other animals since the beginning of time. Now millions of years later, the process we apply to...
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Crispr Gene Drives: Mosquitos Massacre or Malaria Miracle?
The African malaria mosquito is the most dangerous animal on earth, claiming roughly half a million lives each year. In 2016, there were...
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The Hidden Price You Pay: An Analysis of Ethics, the Environment and Consumer Autonomy in the Coffee IndustryÂ
Our society has become virtually contingent on coffee for its survival. As coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, our...
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Clean Water and Sanitation: A Global Crisis that Challenges Women and Children
Everyday women and children spend 200 million hours collecting water for their families, and 260 million hours looking for a place to...
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Poaching & People: The Ethics of Ethnozootherapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Zootherapy, at least in the West, is usually seen as harmlessly using animals, especially dogs, to aid human recovery from psychological...
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The Ethics of Living Forever & its Effect on Overpopulation
With the rise of new technologies, we focus on the furthering of society by finding new ways to make our lives more efficient. Under this...
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Limiting Legacies: Overpopulation and the Right to Procreate
It is 2100. The world population is an astonishing 11 billion people, the maximum amount that the Earth can sustain, and yet, the...
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The Modern Jurassic Park: Can De-Extinction Turn Back the Clock for our Environment?
What does a Dodo, a Wooly Mammoth, and a Western Black Rhinoceros all have in common? These species are all extinct, and have the...
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America’s Toxic Prisons: The Ethics of Prison Construction in Highly Polluted Areas
“I suffered almost every day of the 15 months I was at that prison... it became clear to me that I [was] being left for dead... With no...
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