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The Effects of Plastic on the Human Body

Posted by Seth Williams on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, In : Environmental Affairs

Throughout time, there has not been much discussion or investigation around the contents of plastic bottles and how harmful the chemicals used to manufacture them. As a cause for concern, it is imperative that we raise awareness about the subject matter.In an age where everything is for convenience, the pace of day to day living has forced the human race to adapt to the ways to modern society. The scarcity of purified water has seen every citizen on a global scale make use of bottled water. O...

Watering up Security

Posted by on Friday, May 20, 2011, In : Environmental Affairs

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 not only symbolised the end of the Cold War but saw the breakdown of the bi-polar power structure that had dominated global security concerns since about 1947. The victory of one ideology over another did not completely usher in a new age of conflict and cooperation amongst and within the states of the world however, but rather lifted the veil off the state-centred perspective in security studies. Therefore the classical approach of (national) security, as ...

What the Frack?! Economic Development or Destruction of Nature?

Posted by Konrad Geldenhuys on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, In : Environmental Affairs

Covering about 400 000 square kilometers of landscape, the Karoo is one of South Africa’s most beautiful and lucrative areas. Covered with stretches of flora and fauna unknown to the rest of the country and home to the Khoi and Bushmen peoples, this environmental sanctuary is in jeopardy.

With oil reserves rapidly depleting and given the instability of oil prices, it seems that shale gas would be the next palpable step in energy procurement. The issue at hand is a process called hydraulic f...