One Breath at a Time
This week you watched three videos, each on a topic of pollution. Of these three types of pollution, which type of pollution do you believe you could influence most? Which type of pollution would be the most manageable at the individual level? Explain your reasoning. Review the posts of your classmates and respond to at least one other post, supporting your classmate’s position on the issue with a fact in agreement from the course materials or a scholarly source. Be sure to cite that source using the Strayer Writing Standards. Be sure to inform your response with facts from sources. Use our ebook/textbook each week and at least one scholarly outside source. You must cite sources in-text and give a full citation at the end of your response using the Strayer Writing Standards. TIPS FOR ANSWERING THE DQ: Be sure to organize your discussion question responses. For example, your Week 9 DQ requires that you watch three videos, each on a topic of pollution. After watching these videos which you will rely on to inform your discussion you need to answer two (2) questions backing up your answers with facts from the three videos and relevant outside sources. The questions this week are: Of these three types of pollution, which type of pollution do you believe you could influence most? Which type of pollution would be the most manageable at the individual level? Explain your reasoning. So you need to have a response that is two (2) parts and two (2) paragraphs. 1. Answer the question providing the evidence on which you based your response – Of these three types of pollution, which type of pollution do you believe you could influence most? In other words, this question asks you to consider the effects of personal consumption patterns and lifestyle on positive and negative change in the health of our global environment. 2. Answer the question providing the evidence on which you based your response – Which type of pollution would be the most manageable at the individual level? In other words, this question asks you to consider the how pollution is effected at the individual level in ways that the individual can easily control. In answering these questions you need to support your position with factgs gleaned from the videos and relevant outside sources of your choice. https://ourworldindata.org/faq-on-plastics https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/ https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/water/what-we-do/tackling-global-water-pollution https://www.planetaid.org/blog/recycling-rates-around-the-world Review the posts of your classmates and respond to at least one post rebutting a position shared by one of your classmates with a scholarly source. (Note: For citing internet sources in your discussion, please see the Web Sources section of the Strayer Writing Standards guide available in the left-hand menu.)
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