I have an question

[Abdulla 553]

Please I want one person to explain me the exercise!

 

[ratboy88]

here is your first lesson.... this forum is for POLITICS

 

[acronym]

Quote from Abdulla 553:


1) What are the scarce resources under threat from acid rain?
2) What is the opportunity cost of the pollution to the world?
3) What conflict is illustrated in this dilemma?

A couple of points, what is under threat should be self explanatory.

If its a pure economics paper, try this on;
1;
People. People are under threat.
They are the scarce resource, economically-those people who will die prematurely, from working in factories to produce some crap odd's are nobody needs.
2;
There is no opportunity cost, because corporate liability (any entities liability, gov or private) doesnt exist as a meaningful factor in the kind of countries where they do this shit. Including britain, and all first world countries.
3;
Pure greed going unsated, because some other entity got their first.

Hope that helped.
That was the neutral economic version.

 

[hcour]

Perhaps if you included pictures of Heidi Klum's boobs you might get more responses.

H

 

[ratboy88]

the rain in spain falls mainly in the plain. not sure if it is acid rain in spain falling on the plain.

 

[OTCkrak]

is this a high school civics class of something

 

[jem]

Quote from Abdulla 553:

The question is the following:-
Exercise 10 International conflict:- Acid rain

Many European factories and power stations which make goods and services use gas and coal for fuel. Waste gases from burning these resources are pumped into the atmosphere and then turn to acid as they mix with the air and water droplets in the clouds.

The cloud then travels across national boundaries, and when it rains the acid falls on other countries with damaging effects: water in lakes and rivers becomes poisoned, animals and plants die. About 5% of the acid found rain in Germany and Sweden is from the UK. In Norway, between 9 and 12% of the acid in rain is from the UK. Countries which suffer the bad effects of acid rain would prefer the UK to filter the waste gases from its power stations and factories. However, it would be more costly for UK industry to do this.

The choice is therefore between cheap power in the United Kingdom and a clean environment in Europe.

1) What are the scarce resources under threat from acid rain?
2) What is the opportunity cost of the pollution to the world?
3) What conflict is illustrated in this dilemma?

1. air - water in lakes and rivers becomes poisoned, animals plants and maybe people.

2. The opportunity cost is the what would the world be like without the pollution. so this is a tough question. it might be the cost of cleanup. It might be the cost of the damage to the animals plants air and river. You also might consider what damage would be done if Britain generated the power in another matter.

3. the conflict is international regulation of pollution. The European continent generally pushes for measuring pollution at the site of the pollution generator - such as the smoke stack itself. so called effluent measurements.

Countries with fast moving weather and rivers argue that pollution be measured in an ambient way. Britain says our rivers and air are fairly clean so we can keep polluting at these levels.

Britain would say it maintains its sovereign right to measure and control its own pollution. so another issues is sovereignty vs. internationalism.