Describe how exposure to toxic chemicals and environmental pollutants impacts individuals and communities. Use specific examples from your text to outline the personal and well as social costs of exposure to pollution and environmental degradation.
What will be an ideal response?
The text outlines many examples of how individual health and development can be impacted by chemicals and environmental pollutants. Examples include lead poising causing impaired development and loss of IQ points, and exposure to radiation having both physical and psychological effects. Students should demonstrate familiarity with the material and illuminate a specific example of ill effects from exposure to pollution or toxins. Students can also discuss how living in areas with high levels of air or water pollution contributes to respiratory or intestinal illnesses, etc. Specific examples should be cited and discussed. Social costs of environmental degradation are plentiful as well. Students might discuss public health and social development issues, lack of resources contributing to social unrest or violence, and economic concerns. Familiarity with the text and the relationship between lack of resources or poor environmental quality and social life/life chances should be apparent.
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