Answer:
What began in the late 1800s as a love of oil (and the potential wealth oil brings) has turned to a love-hate relationship with oil. Oil has a wealth of uses, but also a wealth of consequences.
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The United States uses one-quarter of the world's energy.
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The United States is the second-largest producer of oil in the world.
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The United States imports more oil than any other country.
- The United States suffers from a blind and selfish dependency on oil.
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The United States struggles with ending its dependency on oil,
especially when lobbyists fight this.
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The United States argues with itself over off-shore oil drilling. Catastrophes would truly be catastrophic, but the "oil
race" continues.
Explanation:
The government of a consumer state has a vested interest in protecting the government of oil-producing states.
Some estimates put the first human settlements in the Amazon at 32,000 to 39,000 years ago. Since that time, Amazon people have developed lifestyles that are well integrated with the benefits and constraints of rainforests.
An estimated 7-10 million Amerindians (the term for American Indigenous peoples) lived in American rainforests, half of them in Brazil, at the time of European arrival. When Pizarro arrived in Peru, more land was under cultivation and more food was being produced in the Andean region than today.
The answer is I. 25 meters.
Answer: Water pollution can have disastrous effects on the environment.
Explanation:
- Pollution in the water can reach a point where there isn't enough oxygen in the water for the fish to breathe. The fish can suffocate and not have enough air.
- Pollution affects the entire food chain. Small fishes absorb pollutants, such as chemicals, into their bodies. Bigger fishes eat the smaller fishes and get the pollutants as well. Birds or other animals may eat the bigger fishes and be harmed by the pollutants. One example of this was the use of the insecticide (bug killer) DDT, which is when birds of prey ate fishes that were infected with it, they would lay eggs with thin shells. The population of birds of prey began to drop until DDT was banished.
- Sewage causes major problems in rivers. Bacteria in the water will use oxygen to break down the sewage. If there is too much sewage, the bacteria could use up oxygen until there won't be enough left for the fish.
- Water pollution from major events like acid rain or oil spills can completely destroy marine habitats.
- One of the most important commodities for life on planet Earth is clean water. For over 1 billion people on the planet, clean water is nearly impossible to get. Dirty, polluted water can make them sick enough to die.
