Energy Issues That Don't Count

The following is a list of energy related impacts that never seem to get linked to our use of energy:

• LET'S THROW OUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS FROM:

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  ENERGY PRODUCTION IMPACTS

• The Global Warming Problem;
• World Wide Air Pollution;
• World Wide Water Pollution;
• Deforrestation for fuel and lands;
• Excessive Industry Intrusion into Government Policy;
• Environmental Impacts of stripmining;
• Delinking of environmental costs from energy production impacts;
• Failure to recycle results in greater use of raw resources;
• Impacts on land use from electricity
• Loss of land from massive Hydropower projects due to flooding;

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  COAL PRODUCTION IMPACTS

• Acid Rain impacts;
• Acid Rain impacts on Water;
• Acid Rain impacts on human health;
• Acid Rain impacts on buildings;
• Acid Rain impacts on air pollution;
• Worker Health and Black Lung Disease;
• Stripmining impacts to environment;
• China's massive development of Coal;

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  OIL PRODUCTION IMPACTS

• Oil Spills in the Oceans;
• Environmental Impacts from drilling;
• International Political Tensions;
• Balance of Trade Deficits;
• U.S. Military Costs in the Middle East;
• Air Pollution from oil refineries;
• Air Pollution from chemical byproducts manufacture;
• Air Pollution from Vehicles;
• Water pollution in Rivers and Oceans from transport ships;
• Danger of more Kuwaiti Oil Field Fire Wars;
• Health and Environmental Impacts from leaded gas;
• The Real Price of Oil

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NUCLEAR POWER PRODUCTION IMPACTS

 

• Radioactive Releases;
• Nuclear Wastes;
• Terrorist Attacks;
• Insurance Liabilities;
• Decommisioning;
• Political fallout;
• Mining impacts on Native American Lands;
• Energy Consumption from nuclear fuel development;
• Thermal Pollution from nuclear reactors;

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  ENERGY CONSUMPTION IMPACTS

• American Dream impacting global energy consumption;
• U.S. reliance on Oil Imports;
• U.S. Largest energy user and polluter;
• Poor Energy Efficiency makes U.S. less competitive globally;
• Agriculture: Loss of soil quality;
• Agriculture: Increased Energy requirements;
• Lifestyles: Aerosols and the Ozone Hole;

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  TRANSPORTATION IMPACTS

• Insurance Costs;
• Economic Impacts from accidents;
• Impacts on Human Health from accidents;
• Impacts on Health from car based lifestyles;
• Clean Air Impacts;
• Loss of land to highways, streets and concrete;
• Economic Impacts of maintaining highways and streets;
• Envrionmental Impacts of massive tire Fires;
• Growing commute times and traffic congestion;
• Impacts on 3rd world poverty from food exports;
• 3rd World debt and growing fuel costs;
• Impacts on animal life of noise pollution;
• Impacts on humans of noise pollution;

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  CULTURAL IMPACTS

• Modernization impacts food production and human health;
• Modernization impacts population and carrying capacities;
• Modernization impacts land usage and Economic Growth Patterns;
• Modernization impacts diversity and species loss;
• Modernization impacts mobility and human interaction;
• Media images impacts 3rd world values and lifestyles;
• Media images creates 3rd world interest in migration;
• 80 Year Destablization of Middle Eastern Culture;
• Worker/job related shifts towards A Service Economy;
• Impacts from Car advertizing dollars on Amercian consumption patterns;
• Censorship of Energy Policies by Corporate Media Giants;

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  This page updated: April 26th, 2002