1.
The Slovak landscape is noted primarily for its mountainous nature, with the Carpathian
Mountains extending across most of the northern half of the country. Amongst
these mountain ranges are the high peaks of the Fatra-Tatra Area(including Tatra
mountains, Greater Fatra and Lesser Fatra), Slovak Ore Mountains, Slovak Central
Mountains orBeskids. The largest lowland is the fertile Danubian Lowland in the
southwest, followed by the Eastern Slovak Lowland in the southeast.
2. Forrests are chopped-floods, new buildings-noise polution, new cities-noise light polution
3. Yes, there are more houses than before(when my parents moved here), some trees were
cut, more poluted air(more new cars)
4.
Arguments For Zoos Arguments Against Zoos
By bringing people and From an animal rights
animals together, zoos standpoint, we do not have a
educate the public and foster right to breed, capture and
an appreciation of the confine other animals, even if
they are endangered. Being a
animals. This exposure and
member of an endangered
education motivates people
species doesn't mean the
to protect the animals.
individual animals have fewer
Zoos save endangered rights.
species by bringing them into
Animals in captivity suffer from
a safe environment, where
they are protected from stress, boredom and
poachers, habitat loss, confinement. Intergenerational
starvation and predators. bonds are broken when
Many zoos also individuals get sold or traded
have breeding programsfor to other zoos, and no pen or
endangered species. In the even drive-through safari can
wild, these individuals might compare to the freedom of the
have trouble finding mates wild.
and breeding. Baby animals bring in visitors
and money, but this incentive
to breed new baby animals
leads to overpopulation.
Surplus animals are sold not
only to other zoos, but also
to circuses, canned hunting
facilities, and even
for slaughter.
5.
Air pollution:- the release of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere. Common
gaseous pollutants include carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
and nitrogen oxides produced by industry and motor vehicles.
Photochemical ozone and smog are created as nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons react to
sunlight. Particulate matter, or fine dust is characterized by their micrometre size PM10 to
PM2.5. Light pollution:- includes light trespass, over-illumination and astronomical interference.
Littering:- the criminal throwing of inappropriate man-made objects, unremoved, onto public
and private properties.
Noise pollution:- which encompasses roadway noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise as well as
high-intensity sonar.
Soil contamination occurs when chemicals are released by spill or underground leakage.
Among the most significant soil contaminantsare hydrocarbons, heavy
metals, MTBE,[10] herbicides, pesticides and chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Radioactive contamination, resulting from 20th century activities in atomic physics, such as
nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons research, manufacture and deployment.
(See alpha emitters and actinides in the environment.)
Thermal pollution, is a temperature change in natural water bodies caused by human
influence, such as use of water as coolant in a power plant.
Visual pollution, which can refer to the presence of overhead power lines,
motorway billboards, scarred landforms (as from strip mining), open storage of
trash, municipal solid waste or space debris.
Water pollution, by the discharge of wastewater from commercial and industrial
waste (intentionally or through spills) into surface waters; discharges of untreated
domesticsewage, and chemical contaminants, such as chlorine, from treated sewage;
release of waste and contaminants into surface runoff flowing to surface waters
(including urban runoff and agricultural runoff, which may contain
chemical fertilizers and pesticides); waste disposal and leaching
into groundwater; eutrophication and littering.
On today's factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy windowless sheds,
wire cages, gestation crates and other confinement systems. These animals will never raise
families, root in the soil, build nests or do anything that is natural and important to them.
3. Save the Environment
A recent United Nations report entitled Livestock's Long Shadow concludes that eating meat is "one
of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems,
at every scale from local to global". The report finds that eating meat causes almost 40 per cent
more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, ships and planes in the world
combined.
4. Avoid Bird Flu
The World Health Organisation says that if the avian flu virus mutates, it could be caught simply
by eating undercooked chicken flesh or eggs, eating food prepared on the same cutting board as
infected meat or eggs, or even touching eggshells contaminated with the virus.
5. Prolong Your Life
Vegetarians live six to 10 years longer on average than meat-eaters do. Healthy vegetarian diets
support a lifetime of good health and provide protection against numerous diseases and the three
biggest killers – heart disease, cancer and strokes.
6. Avoid the World's Number One Killer
The risk of developing heart disease among meat-eaters is 50 per cent higher than it is among
vegetarians. Drs Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn have used a vegan diet to prevent and
reverse heart disease. Dr Esselstyn's book documents their 100 per cent success with
unclogging people's arteries and reversing heart disease.
7. Reduce Your Risk of Cancer
According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, "Vegetarians are about 40
percent less likely to get cancer than non-vegetarians, regardless of other risks such as smoking,
body size, and socioeconomic status".
8. Fit Into a Bikini
Vegetarianism is the ultimate weight-loss diet. About 31 per cent of urban Indians are either
overweight or obese, but only 2 per cent of vegans are obese. A vegetarian diet is the only diet
that has passed peer review and taken weight off and kept it off.
9. Create Global Peace
Leo Tolstoy claimed that "vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism". His point? If we want
to sow the seeds of peace, we need to eat a peaceful diet. Eating meat supports killing animals
just to satisfy humans' acquired taste for flesh.
10. Discover the Joy of Veggies
Vegetarians report that when they adopt a vegetarian diet, their range of foods explodes from a
limited selection of centre-of-the-plate meat items to a wide range of grains, legumes, fruits and
vegetables that they didn't even know existed.
Sir Paul McCartney sums it all up, "If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just
stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you
think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty".
