Final Report: Part 1

Suggestions for Environmental Topics

Choose one of the topics below for your final report.

Note, please make your position obvious, however, you should avoid personal pronouns in academic writing (i.e. I, me…)

• Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wife Refuge (ANWR) (for or against)

• The deforestation issue: Rainforests and ecological sustainability versus economic growth

• Renewable energy vs. nonrenewable energy

• Deforestation (for or against)

• Genetically modified food (for or against)

• Organic food (for or against)

• Overpopulation (for or against): Focus on environmental impacts!

• Wild fish versus farmed fish

• Controlled forest fires and how healthy they are for the environment and people

• Bottled water (for or against)

• Throw away life style (for or against)

• Hydraulic fracturing (for or against)

• Nuclear power (for or against)

• Animal factory farming: example: CAFOs (for or against)

• Recycling (for or against)

• Hybrid or Electrical Cars (for or against)

• Captive Populations: example: zoos, aquariums, etc. (for or against)

• Investing in “Glamorous Species” (for or against)