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Help finding Analogy for Pollution.
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i need this for my final exam in history (weird I know). im doing a paper and i need "Analogous examples from world history that may shed light on the problem. Similarities and differences should be explicit". any ideas???
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hrm possibly paying attention in class would have worked best for ya.
Other then that I'd say start hitting up google?
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Pollution is like the Holocaust, it's only a problem if you see it as a bad thing.
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I cant believe you are still in school this late in june
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in economics pollution is the textbook example for an externality, which occurs when a private cost is less than a social cost. so when a firm pollutes, it is harming society more than it harms itself, so there is no incentive for the firm to reduce production in order to reduce its pollution levels. thus, governments have implemented tax schemes and regulations to impose private costs on the firms. this extra cost increases the private cost to the level of the social cost, and an optimal level of pollution is reached. in this case, an analogy for pollution is any externality that a society faces. i just took a quick look at some common externalities on wikipedia and here some of the examples:
Pollution by a firm in the course of its production which causes nuisance or harm to others.
The harvesting by one fishing company in the ocean depletes the stock of available fish for the other companies and overfishing may result. This is an example of a common property resource, sometimes referred to as the Tragedy of the commons.
Individuals collectively choose to use a public transportation resource (such as roads), imposing congestion costs on all other users.
A business, like an airline company or software company, may purposely underfund one part of their business, such as their pension funds, in order to push the costs onto someone else, creating an externality. Here, the "cost" is that of providing minimum social welfare or retirement income; economists may more frequently attribute this problem to the category of moral hazards.
A property tycoon buying up a large number of houses in a town, causing prices to rise and therefore making other people who want to buy the houses worse off, perhaps by excluding them from the housing market. These effects are sometimes called "pecuniary externalities"; many economists do not accept the concept of pecuniary externalities, attributing such problems to anti-competitive behavior, monopoly power, or other definitions of market failures.
hope this helps
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Pollution is like global warming. Just pretend it's not happening, and it will go away.
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no idea if this helps or not, but this is a very interesting read.
http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/travel-leisure/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we.shtml
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pollution also causes global warming
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thanks for the ideas. i just finished up. tomarrow is my last damn day of school so im basicly done JEA
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I laughed so hard at that, I'm using it sometime.
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it's like the smog monster in the old godzilla movie
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pollution is like a gonorrhea infested bitch
the shit stinks
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Wow skiierman is wise aswell...hmmm...cool!
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cpowell has it covered i think, super good ideas.
I'm still in school until next tuesday. fuck. then grad on the 22, then exams the week after
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i'm still in school, we get out tomorrow. try google for that analogy thing
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I got school until next wed. and my last exam is June 26!
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pollution is like a snowboarder. it gets in the way and ruins the snow.
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haha that one is perfect. and what then is the least cost method of helping to prevent pollution??
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How about, yknow, the black plague? Maybe just a little bit? Sanitation, lots of people dying? Works for me.
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Oil Companies:Pollution::George Bush:Pointless Wars
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i don't really think you can find anything totally analagous with pollution in the history of the world. let's think about it... pollution is something that is easier for the individual, but more difficult for the group and the future of the population. i don't know, maybe the most universal pollution you could possibly come up with is capitalism. it's the one thing i can think of in the history of the world that is far better for the individual than the whole. sure, in short is works well. but in the long run, outsourcing and greed will prevail. okay, so i guess that's the one thing i can come up with.
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Pollution:Ruining our world:SNowboards:ruining out mountains
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pollution is like gay guys... they both suck dick
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its kinda has the effect of a greenhouse
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