Potential health hazard ideas for a paper?
I’m looking for a topic to write a paper about for my environmental science class. It has to somehow affect me and I’d like to write about something controversial or interesting, and possibly put some kind of spin on it so that there isn’t an obvious solution. Our ES text book has a few ideas that everybody else will be writing about but that’s really not what I want to do. The subject can’t be too broad. Here are some examples of the type of subject I’m looking for:
Lead poisoning
Radon
Cigarette smoke
asbestos
A specific nitrate or something in fertilizers
I don’t want my paper to be like everyone else’s so any help you kind folks can lend will be great.
I think the first guy means Dihydrogen monoxide…. Anyway, the other two are too general. If I was to do either of those I’d have to zero in on BPA or say, lead in the water. That’s exactly what everyone else will be doing and not interesting enough.
Any other ideas?
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3 comments
S. Sanz on May 24, 2010 at 3:58 am
Effects of plastic use on people (drinking containers, water bottles etc). Can tie it into environmental contamination of water, fish, animals that drink the water etc.
They have found androgenous animals/fish/alligators etc. near plastics factories.
Plastics contain estrogen and other chemicals.
Fsd on May 24, 2010 at 3:58 am
hydrogen monoxide contamination
Jason on May 24, 2010 at 3:58 am
Write about the potential health hazard we all have in the shower.
-Water is known to carry traces of really toxic substances. When the water in shower is really warm, your skin pores open, and the substances enter your body.
A solution would be to by a purifier for the entire house, or check if the water is coming from a good reputable company.
Even dirty pipes can cause water we use every day to be dirty.
In your essay, you can talk about the toxic susbstances commonly found in water, explain the problem, describe how water is filtered and describe the pipes, and describe the solution. Also, talk about what those substances do to the human body.
It affects you because you take a shower every day, and you are exposed to the danger every time.