What is the best use for reclaimed landfills and why? What will be an ideal response?
Landfills are best left as open areas, such as golf courses or parks. This is because of the potential for
ongoing subsidence as the fill consolidates over time. Subsidence would be damaging to structures. A
second consideration is the potential for methane gas leakage. Keeping the area open provides a way
for methane gas to escape without building up to dangerous levels.
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Do cities benefit or harm the environment? Argue both sides.
What will be an ideal response?
What advantages are there to synthesizing a naturally occurring medicine, such as Taxol, in the laboratory rather than isolating it from nature?
A. Synthesizing a natural product can be advantageous when the source of the natural product is rare and thus not readily available. B. In synthesizing the natural product in the laboratory, the chemist is able to create closely related compounds that may have even greater medicinal properties. C. In synthesizing the natural product in the laboratory, a chemist can increase the concentration of the synthetic beyond that of natural product to insure maximum potency for good health. D. Both A and B are true.
American sociologist Thorsten Veblen coined the term "conspicuous consumption."
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The agreement known as the Montreal Protocol is intended to force countries that still put lead in gasoline to stop doing so by the year 2030.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)