My friend and I are doing a report in my spanish class on environmental consquences to current things we are doing and are paying little or no attention to. Yes, i understand that this is a SPANISH class, but we seem to be learning geography and chemistry hehehe...

I need a good subject for an environmental hazard or action that will cause problems in the FUTURE...

I am doing mine on nuclear radiation and power... you know, the contained energy that if breaks apart will cause 1000 years of land to go to waste... lol

Anyways... anything to do with environmental hazards... Any suggestions on something EASY (since its in spanish :D )

Thanks! :m:

Here's a cheap shot and an easy target: Pampers -- those indestructable, non-biodegradable all-synthetic (read "plastic") diapers -- are the single largest-selling product in the world.

Scientists are making designer bacteria that metabolize plastics and radioactive waste. Exxon used a bacterium to help clean up the Valdez spill, but it took 3 years.

Pretty soon 20 and 21 first century waste will be easy to recycle and won't pose the problem we once thought it would. I guess we'll have to watch out for bacteria that gets out of hand. Imagine if all our plastics were attacked by a plastophage and then society ended.

Oh man, there's a sci-fi story right there.

Plastice bags. They're illegal in India, muertan tortas (pobrecitos), y posible bebes.

Scientists are making designer bacteria that metabolize plastics and radioactive waste. Exxon used a bacterium to help clean up the Valdez spill, but it took 3 years.

Pretty soon 20 and 21 first century waste will be easy to recycle and won't pose the problem we once thought it would. I guess we'll have to watch out for bacteria that gets out of hand. Imagine if all our plastics were attacked by a plastophage and then society ended.

Oh man, there's a sci-fi story right there.

Plastice bags. They're illegal in India, muertan tortas (pobrecitos), y posible bebes.
Until the stupid bacteria gets out of hand then transforms into something worse than ebola and nuclear radiation combined... lol :m:

We already have untold billions of stupid bacteria that could evolve to do something suitably nasty. One more isn't going to make any difference.

Here's a cheap shot and an easy target: Pampers -- those indestructable, non-biodegradable all-synthetic (read "plastic") diapers -- are the single largest-selling product in the world.

they can be composted, some chick here did a science experiment with used ones in her garage, she found that if they were shredded then soaked in something(i cant remember what) then the wolud break down after a few weeks and could be used as compost soil

We already have untold billions of stupid bacteria that could evolve to do something suitably nasty. One more isn't going to make any difference.

True, but there aren't any bacteria out there designed to eat plastic. They potentially could evolve, but why wait? Let's make one right now and then it will et up ever'thing.

Ok... this is for my spanish class... what is something extremely simple?

I am doing mine on nuclear radiation and power... you know, the contained energy that if breaks apart will cause 1000 years of land to go to waste... lol
Ehh....that's not such a good idea dude. Science disagrees with you there. ;)

It would be a a better Idea if we were to build nuclear reactors underground beneath the deserts of australia or america (or anywhere desolate).
And have more grids running off these reactors, in turn creating less carbons in the atmosphere that are destroying the fragile eco-systems and our breathing air (us being everything that lives on earth. ie 'animals' plant life.