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This 5 page paper examines the problem of toxic waste and general environmental concerns. Environment Canada and legislation is discussed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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up the toxic wastes left behind" (Rahm, 2002, p.1). Indeed, a lot of problems exist due to the toxic substances invading the air, water and land. Al Gore recently created
a film about the problems with the environment, something that suggests the world will be very different if something is not done to clean things up. In examining this problem,
how are things in Canada? Does Canada have a problem and if so, what is the country doing about it? Some statistics and figures are startling. Sherwood (1995) reports that
greenhouse gas emissions doubled between 1980 and 1995. The ozone is considered to be about five percent thinner over Canada than it was between those same years (Sherwood, 1995). Pesticides
as well as toxic metals have continued to accumulate in both water and air throughout the globe (Sherwood, 1995). It is also noted that the forests in Canada have been
depleted by "an area three times the size of Prince Edward Island between 1986 and 1991" (Sherwood, 1995, p.4). Of course, while Canada certainly has a problem, it is not
as if it has sat idly by and watched the deterioration of its atmosphere. Rather, Canada had-not unlike the United Kingdom-paid attention to public heath reform during the past two
centuries ("Curricula - The Public Health Project," 2000). During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reformers had looked for solutions to environmental woes due to the fact that children were dying
("Curricula - The Public Health Project," 2000). In fact, it seems as if there was attention to environment, long before it was a popular subject. Today, pollution is blamed
for a variety of things such as cancer and disabilities ("Curricula - The Public Health Project," 2000). In the past, there had been chemicals thought to have been safe, but
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