Energy and the Environment
-Since most of South and Latin America has not been modernized, Oliver Streett there infrastructure and Federman Global Issues road systems are lacking, so most everyone trades via waterways and planes. QuickTime™ anddecompressor a Because not everyone TIFF (Uncompressed) their own car, the are needed to see this has picture. reliance on fossil fuels is significantly lower in South and Latin America than the rest of South and Latin America the world; wood burning -The Amazon Rainforest is still the primary is made up of seven energy source. million square miles of Although the countries land in South America don’t use a lot of oil and takes up 40% of themselves, they are in land. Rainforests are the top ten worldwide as important because they oil exporters. The only produce around 40% of problem is when the rest oxygen in the world and of the world finds new half the worlds animal and efficient alternate species live in the sources of energy, and Rainforests, also a large the South and Latin number of medication countries are still trying comes from plants that to export oil, there grown in Rainforests. economies are going to The biggest problem for fail because they rely on Rainforests is their oil exports as a deforestation. With an large part of their increasing population economy. Their rate, there needs to be solution is too invest more room, so the more time and money governments are cutting into alternate clean down the Rainforests to energy, like Brazil has build houses and urban started to do with wind areas. With turbines. The deforestation comes governments need to massive carbon release focus more on solving into the atmosphere, their energy problem losing plants to make rather than keeping medicine, and hurting power. the biodiversity.
Middle East -Just like most of the world, the Middle East is facing environmental issues such as biodiversity, pollution, air and water quality, and climate change. The Middle East has many rapidly growing cities, so with the increasing population, there is increasing pollution and trash. With the increasing pollution comes decreasing quality in air and in the water. With more people there is more of a need of clean water, but there isn’t enough clean water so people drink the dirty water. 24% of fish in the Middle East are in danger of extinction, mainly due to over fishing. With all of the recent pollution, over fishing, and decline in biodiversity, Middle Easterners are consuming goods at a higher rate than being produced, so goods are in short supply. -It’s well known that the Middle East exports oil to most of the world, seeing that they have over half the worlds oil reserves. But the Middle East is also consuming a lot more oil with their increasing population. Along with oil the Middle East also