Environmental Issues

       There are many environmental issues that I feel are significant in my city. The one

 that I find to be the biggest would probably be pollution. I live within twenty miles of a

 major town that has at least twenty or thirty refineries. Out of all these refineries, not one

 goes with out producing some kind of emission that produces pollution. There is a very

 high bridge that goes into the town where the refineries are located. As I drive over this

 bridge, I can see a yellow haze across the sky that goes on for miles.

       The causes are from human values and environmental ethics. We depend on these

 refineries to produce many things that we use in everyday life. These refineries produce

 fuel, plastics, metals, and other chemicals that we use in different ways. Cutting trees

 would be an issue of environmental ethics because we are clearing our precious forest for

 our own use to make lumber and paper. There is a new issue that has become an

 environmental ethics issue and it is the growing of corn to be cut for ethanol, which is

 used in fuels. It seems that we find ways to save our fossil fuels but turn around and use

 our food supply to make fuels.

Conclusion

       It seems that we need these products for our everyday life, but we put our

 environment in danger to produce these things. This creates many environmental issues  

 for my town, many cities, and the world.