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1.) How do systems developed by environmental engineers before a human induced disaster occurs (like oil spills), help to speed the rcovery of both the environment and society?
Systems developed by environmental engineers before a disaster occurs speeds up the recovery because they already have some idea of how to do it. If an engineer was involved in a previous oil spill, they have first-hand experience. They will know what methods they tried that didn't work and what solutions did work. Even though the spill and the area is different and it is not likely for solutions to be the same, they at least know where to start. Environmental engineers should have to go through test simulations to have an idea of how to handle the spill. If they cannot handle the spill on a test level, there is no way the solution will work full scale. They need to have a gameplan.
ReplyDeleteIt helps speed anything up if the person knows what they are doing. If engineers didn't have to go through trial and error when handling the problem, things would go a lot faster. When tests are done and people are trained correctly, problems can be handled more efficiently. In addition, if everyone could coordinate between the people who were handling the spills, they could distribute evenly and clean it up faster. In conclusion, previous experience, knowledge, and cooperation speed up the recovery of human induced disasters.
Environmental engineers help speed up the recovery of the environment and society because they have to look ahead and think if this happened what would we have to do to either prevent it or fix this problem. They make assumptions like this everyday. That is their job, to prevent or help stop natural causes such as oil spills. Dams are a good examples for ideas we have that will help prevent disasters. For example, the Hoover d am prevent the Colorado river from overflowing and destroy hundreds of homes. These workers are an important piece to to helping prevent human induced disasters. If we had a system to either clean up oil or prevent the oil from spilling, then we would have had all of the oil cleaned up or not even spilled at all.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of thinking ahead has helped and will help the environment because the environmental engineers create a plan of what to do when, and if, a disaster strikes. If, say, an oil spill were to occur, they would be able to fix the problem in a matter of days or weeks. They would have an emergency plan, and they would put it to use before the spill would spread too far. The engineers could contain and clean up the oil before it destroyed ecosystems. Then, they could refill the area with a few animals that they kept in a reserve so that populations could rise and the balance of nature would be restored. If there is some kind of break in an underwater subway system, they would be able to put their plans to action and fix the break before water flooded the whole system. Then, they would be able to get the water out using pumps and tubing. That way, people could once again travel across large areas separated by water.
ReplyDeleteThey create more Eco friendly things like engines that run on alternate fuels like vegetable oil. They come up with better solutions that are safe to be around without full body protection and that don't hurt wild life before the disaster strikes for example oil spills, chemical waste, trash pours into the ocean. They prepare for the disaster before it ever happens so they can clean up faster and it won't hurt as much wild lif.
ReplyDeleteThe process would speed up because you wouldn't need to get covered in oil to put something into the ocean. If a barrier was already put in than the oil spill could be contained and it wouldn't harm any animals much and the oil spill would be in a smaller area. Also, if a dam made of concrete or something made of concrete that was attached to the base of the ocean people wouldn't need to get their boat in harm of having oil on it because the dam or something made of concrete would already be built doing it's job. That would be helping the environment. It would help the society and even the public from getting mad at the oil spill or company that spilled it as much because the spill would be contained and people won't have to stop eating seafood or see dead animals harmed by the oil.
ReplyDeleteSystems developed by environmental egineers before a human induced disaster occurs helps speed up the process of recovery because if engineers have prior knowledge about how to fix the disaster before it becomes too great for humans to fix easily, it would be easier to make sure there was not too much damage done. For example, if engineers know how to efficiently contain and clean-up an oil spill before it occurs, then they can do so before the oil spreads across a huge area and before it can hurt the marine life. If the engineers know how to fix these problems, then they will be smaller disasters. Speed and efficiency is everything when it comes to oil spills. There would be no need for trial and error
ReplyDeleteif engineers knew exactly what would clean-up an oil spill.
It helps speed up the recovery because they will have already figured out a solution to the problem at hand. If they start trying to prevent the disaster before it starts they will have much more time to try and find a good solution to help the environment and the society around it. Itcould help speed up the recovery of the society because they will be able to assure the solution will be found for the disater and the people will not have to worry to much about it knowing that the engineers have already tried the solution out so they know that it will work and it will help get rid of the disater. If al the engineers did a trial and error on a major oil spill like the one that happened they might be able to find an easier solution than using toxic chemicals to get rid of the oil for them.
ReplyDeleteDeveloping the technology before the disaster happens can speed up recovery. Developing it before means that scientists have the time to research more on the disaster. They won't have to devote more time to the products while the it occurs. That can set back the time of when scientists find a solution to the disaster. However, the products developed may not be the solution in the end. The technology might not be suited for a disaster that is occurring i.e. You cannot use a agricultural product to clean an oil spill, and you can't use a cap to fix a dying farm. However, it's always a good idea to think ahead and plan for the worst case scenario.
ReplyDeleteSystems that have already been developed are helpful. If society already is familiar with the systems they might be able to help with them. The engineers have probably already tested the systems in small scale tests. The systems may have proven themselves in a natural disaster. If society already knows about the ramifications of the systems then they are either happier or sadder, but probably happier. The engineers are not pressed for time like they would be in a disaster, so they would be able to create the best product possible. The engineers have not had to rush to get a product created and do a bad job with the product.
ReplyDeleteSystems developed by environmental engineers can speed up the cleanup process a great deal. For example, Utah has this program called UTDK, that specializes in disaster cleanup. They clean up Water damage, Fire Damage and Mold. Another example that's more related to the topic is what the Enviornmental Engineers are using right now. Even though chemical dispersants can cause disease, they can also speed up cleanup. When the oil is dipersed, it can cause the cleanup to take maybe fifty years rather than 75 or 100 it would've taken.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental engineers provide creative solutions to recovering the environment. This also saves money, which is crucial in the economy that the we currently live in. As I have learned in the past, happiness spreads. When a project is successful, the community is happy. This emanates good vibes, which leads to more revelations in how to fix the environment. Along with supplying the society with opportunities, they managing top soil, coal-mining, and other natural resources. When the public is restrained from consuming their entire cache of resources, the world is a healthier and more balanced place; everyone wins.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental engineering is intended to help the environment by combining science and engineering to create new ways to help keep people, animals, and the habitat safe. In order to do this they must be able to think ahead to what might happen what they can do to prevent it. This is what they do for a living they predict what might happen find ways to solve it and those solutions might be able to help again in the later future. What the could do is make emergency plans in case of these accidents that if it does happen they will be able to easily solve the problem.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental engineers help the environment by planning ahead because they know what their doing before they do it. It speeds up the time spent to clean up this natural disaster. It also helps us humans because the disaster will be less likely to spread to our area or to anyones area. Almost everything goes faster when you are prepared. Not having to do trial and error can reduce the chance or things going wrong, and increase the chance of things going in the direction they need to go. Environmental engineers do this so they can handle disasters more efficiently and in a shorter amount of time. Planning ahead also comes with some technicalities. Not knowing how extreme, where, or when the disaster will
ReplyDeleteaccrue makes it very hard for the environmental engineers to bête their job done. They have to be ready for anything and everything. We are very lucky that they are willing to do what they do because they're not only helping the planet but us humans, as well.
Systems developed by environmental engineers before a human induced disaster occurs help to speed the recovery of both the environment and society. For example, they would know how to deal with it right when it occurred, instead of taking awhile to figure it out while the disaster grew bigger and bigger. An example of this would be a forest fire, they can control the burn, so it won't spread throughout the entire forest. Then, they put it out and only a few of the thousands of trees in the forest are harmed. Plus, minimal smoke will be put into the air, so less pollution will be added to the environment.
ReplyDeleteIt would help the speed up the recovery of the environment and society because we wouldn't have to wait for something to be invented. We would already have the technology to help the environment. For example, engineers developed a system using bacteria instead of chemicals to clean up the oil in the gulf. Using bacteria costs less, isn't toxic, and is more reliable. Solutions made by engineers are usually better than ones from the public because it's what they do, it's their job. They're good at problem solving which is good because disaster clean is like one big puzzle. And if the problem has happened before they can us their knowledge from that disaster for this one, and so on as if it continues to happen.
ReplyDeleteSystems produced by these environmental engineers could be anything from a certain way to route fish or birds coming into the area of an oil spill to a way to construct a dam to better protect against flooding. These systems can helping a tremendous fashion such as when the Hoover Dam prevented the disatrious flooding of the Colorado River. Saving millions of homes. Or making rooftop habitats like they do in the Gulf Coast in aid of birds to help them avoid damage by the BP oil spill.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental engineers help speed up the oil containment and clean-up process because they think of ideas before hand, ideas that will work in the future. If we find out solutions now then it will be helpful for the future when a man induced disaster happens again we will be ready, because we already have good ideas that have worked now, so they will work in the future.
ReplyDeleteBy coming up with a plan before a disaster happens, environmental engineers are able to repair damage faster than if they waited to come up with a solution for right when the problem occurs. Staying one step ahead in this world is what you need to do to stay on top of everything. Since environmental engineers plan ahead for such disasters, our society is well protected from potential and definite threats. Without environmental engineers thinking out a plan for such threats, a lot more people would be injured and hurt. And, not only are the people protected, animals and plants are, too.
ReplyDeleteWhen we look at what happened in the oil spill, we don't really think about the thousands of animals affected by this oil spill. We think in smaller numbers such as only a couple of birds are dying from this. What we keep missing is that millions of birds have to migrate to that area, and now they are dying from this oil. This is not the fault of environmental engineers. They haven't found a solution for all the problems in the world. Oil spills are one of them. But, every time an oil spill happens, it is a chance for environmental engineers to figure out the best solution.
In the gulf now, chemical dispersants are being used because according to the information of various groups involved, it is the best solution environmental engineers have come up with right now. Based on knowledge that is on the internet, I do not believe that the chemical dispersants are the best solution, but it is better to try something and learn from your mistake, than to do nothing and also learn nothing.
If the recent BP oil spill is anything to go by, there hasn't been much benefit thus far. It's also surprisingly difficult to find any real details on general protection of the environment from oil, except while a spill is already happening. Even then the only common action seems to be to put up more boons. There's could be more to it than that but if there is it's certainly not well publicized.
ReplyDeleteThey help speed up the process because, with these systems, they can already know what they're going to do, for the most part. They won't have to go through all the hassle of trying to come up with a plan, which, by the time it's all worked out, the oil may have contaminated half the ocean, or maybe more. If they come up with a plan before the spill occurs, it may only last a few weeks compared to a few years or so. And, when they have all the oil contained, they won't have to leave it sitting there for weeks while they come up with another plan for the cleanup, because they'll most likely already have a plan for that.
ReplyDeleteSystems developed by environmental engineers before a human induced disaster occurs (like oil spills), help to speed the rcovery of both the environment and society by saving time. If environmental engineers plan ahead and are able to think of a way to contain oil, then we can use that plan when we have an oil spill. This way we do not have to waste time trying to find a way to contain oil and can focus on a way to clean up the oil. Also, there is less damage done to the environment since these disasters can easily be solved. It is always better to plan ahead for the future and be prepared so when something happens, we know what to do.
ReplyDeleteSystems developed by environmental engineers before a human induced disaster occurs help to speed the recovery of both the environment and society because there were preventative measures taken to insure safety so when a "what if" scenario happens the have the answer. Like a fire drill, the people know the plan to escape if needed but also the fire alarms directly call the fireman who know how to put the fire out and/or contain it. But If the oil kills all the fish in the ocean it directly affects the fisherman and the restaurants because they don't have any fish! Someone's private beach, private property, will be ruined and the property value will drop, The tourists will not go to those beaches too because people normally don't enjoy smelling oil on the beach. This takes a toll on the state's economy.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental engineers help speed of the process because they have plans and they test the methods in order to know things that work and do not work. I think that it is more helpful to have trained environmental engineers, so they know what to do and have experience with cleaning up past oil spills. They also will help the animals. If they can get the oil out of the water, then they will prevent animals from getting sick and breathing in the chemicals.
ReplyDeleteThey also help the fast recovery of the society. The oil spill is affecting the seafood industry. 3/4 of the oysters eaten in the US comes from the Gulf and 7% of shrimp does also. 40% of fish harvested comes from the Gulf, says CNN news. This is affecting the fishermen that are dependent on the seafood. If they do not make an income, than they can not support their family and keep a roof over there head. It is also effects the tourist industry. The hotels, dining, rentals, like cars, bikes, etc and other places that attract tourists, are effected because many people are not going to the Gulf. You probably would want to the beach and go swimming, but the oil spill is preventing that from happening. Environmental engineers are key in helping the swift recovery of the environment and society.
They help speed recover by enhancing the available technology, and by utilizing that technology, we can essentially speed the recovery of the human induced disaster. another way it helps is by providing more technology then we had on previous disasters, therefore we have more experience and resources available to deal with the oncoming disaster.
ReplyDeleteanother thing is, environmental engineers know what they are doing, so if we build of stores of natural disaster solvers, then we are much more prepared than if we spray corexit into the ocean.(hint hint)
Enviromental engineers help speed the process of environmental recovery by coming up with innovative ideas and using old ones to help the eviroment recover. Because we as humankind create different disaters than those that naturally occur, and therefore those that the world has adapted to control, we need to clean up the messes we make. Enviromental engineers are nessasary to this process.
ReplyDeleteMan made systems of recovery like FEMA or the Red Cross help speed up recovery of disasters/accidents because humans want to help, but they just may not know how. These organizations give people a way to help, which speeds up recovery. When a disaster happens, it lowers happiness among the people. But when there is good news for the recovery from the incident, it restores morale, which is a benefit to society. Nature can take years to rebuild a forest after a fire, but if humans help and plant trees, then there will be less carbon dioxide in the air, which is good for the environment. Basically, man wants to help, but needs organization.
ReplyDeleteSystems Can work even before a human induced disaster occurs because it can help engineers know what to do when it does happen. If a hurricane were ton occur it would be a big problem but engineers have already delt with those kinds of situations and can find ways that work better than others in solving that problem. Engineers can have ideas and they'll take less time in solving a problem that humans induced.they have ways to cleanup oil spills and in the future it might not be such a big deal since they have already dealt with that before.
ReplyDeleteThese systems developed by environmental engineers can really help. Let's say that we have a system for capping an oil leak off the coast of California. We now have saved billions of dollars that would be used to wonder around and that would be used to clean it up. Immediate response and action needs to be taken for human-caused environmental disasters. We can't sit around like bp has, watching oil leak into the gulf. The "What if?" factor plays a very important role in these systems. These environmental engineers think of all the possibilities. If immediate response and action is taken, that money can help go to better government programs. NASA has been shut down, because the government has no money. The money can even help the schools in America, because of all our spending, budget-cuts have been made and teachers have been cut and are out of jobs. These environmental engineers play a big role. One question though, why did they have no immediate solution to the Gulf Oil Spill?
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental engineers help speed up the process because they probably have been in a previous human induced disaster. They also have experience helping the environment. The engineers on a previous oil spill have probably already tested systems to clean up the oil spill that worked and didn't work. It will speed up the process because they will use the processes that did work. It will speed up the recovery of the environment because the faster you clean up the oil spill, the less time the oil has to infect the sea life the oil spill happened near.
ReplyDeleteThey come up with new kinds of fuel for cars. They encourage people to recycle in many different ways. They build things such as wind turbines for a better source of energy. They encourage transportation companies to use bio fuel or electricity.
ReplyDeleteSystems developed by environmental engineers before a disaster help with speeding up with the recovery of the environment because already have tested these methods to see how it will work and how much on an environmental impact it will have. When there is a pre existing plan, it can be put into affect faster than having to first think of a plan while the problem grows larger. Also, since they are created my environmental engineers, we know that the method used with be the most environmentally friendly. Although the engineers plan ahead, they cannot know when, where, or how large the problem will be. The society is benefitted by knowing that there is a solution that has already been created.
ReplyDeleteKnowing methods to help clean up natural disasters before they even happen is invaluable and will most definitely speed up the process of cleaning up the disaster after it happens. How long would it take to do a math problem if you already knew the answer? Environmental engineers have to know so much about the earth, so if they had the knowledge of how to clean up an oil spill, the spill wouldn't cause as much damage. The problem would be solved faster, easier, and cheaper.
ReplyDeleteThe inventions by environmental engineers help speed the recovery because they not only have an idea on how to clean up a human-induced disaster but also they may have created a place where such a disaster couldn't happen by either invention or regulation (i.e. wildlife parks). Also, there are such drills that are made so if some disaster does occur, society knows how to a.) handle it or b.) evacuate. And with the animals, they know how to get them away or stop the disaster from reaching them by containing said disaster if it can be contained. And if the animals and people are not being hit by the disaster, then it is easier to clean up knowing that everyone is safe (and not running around, panicked, and getting caught under their feet) and it also means that less irreparable (or long-lasting/life-threatening) incidents happen. This will leave just the problem to fix not the loss of lives or sickened or dead people.
ReplyDeleteSystems put together by environmental engineers before human induced disasters are extremely important because they can actually prevent a disaster from becoming very catastrophic. Things such as figuring out an ideal placement or design for an oil well can save the environment from many oil spills. Balancing the environment by creating wetlands where they are greatly needed can help, too. Environmental engineers create many systems that prevent disasters or can help stop them when they do occur. If environmental engineers have a plan to stop an oil spill in it's tracks before it even happens, then they will be sufficiently prepared to stop it when they need to. The environment will not become as damaged, thus recovering quicker, and society will not feel as many effects.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental engineers easily expedite the process of recovery because they can lab test any scenarios, and find the best solutions to them. They would be able to easily assess the conditions of the oil spill, then apply their knowledge to how they should adapt to the situation. However, we do not have the technology to have a fully computerized model that can assess a spill the size of the current deepwater horizon spill.
ReplyDeleteAs the disaster prevention and management agency, FEMA also has holes to fill in their hazus software, because it absolutely lowballed the size of the oil spill.
Enviromental Engineers can help speed up gar recovery because they have methods of dealing with human-made situations, like the Gulf of Mexico. Because of previous oil spills, they had an idea of how to get rid of the oil. Their idea were chemical dispersants, and even though it wasn't very effective, they have another chance to create a new methods that could be successful and more Eco-friendly. Another speed-up method is that they are very good at containing the oil and being able to use it again. Because of their process of containing and cleaning the oil, they can be quick with their experience with prevails disasters and the amount of manpower they have. I would rather have 1,000 Enviromental Engineers working on the Gulf than 1,000 volunteers that are just starting to do community service. Because they are so good at working to fix human-made disasters, their speed is very impressive.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental engineers can't really predict when a disaster will happen, they can come up with certain uses for technology based on past experiences, such as a device to predict or monitor incoming hurricanes faster so that we don't have another unexpected hurricane like Katrina, where we weren't able to evacuate anyone.
ReplyDeleteAs for oil spills, I don't understand why we haven't learned our lesson from previous oil spills. We shouldn't be developing new technology or cleanup methods for oil spills, because we shouldn't be having another oil spill. That aside, new technology created for oil spills is mostly created for cleanup- sometimes not even new technology, but just new methods, like the ones we created yesterday.
(Forgive me if this response seems mediocre- this is a bit too much information for my brain to process right now.)
Environmental engineers really help speed up recovery time in the environment by doing research before the disaster actually happens. This helps because then when something bad actually happens they have some background information so they don't have to be guessing, which could really hurt the environment if, for example, a chemical that not much is known about was released to the seas. If we know more about something from research we can solve it much easier because we already know what works and what doesn't.
ReplyDeleteIt also speeds up society's recovery time because people will know that we know how to fix the problem and they know there won't be some sort of an epidemic, usually caused by overreacting media. Also if their is a big enough problem where it will affect everyday life people will be able cope with it better because they have been somewhat forewarned due to the research that has taken place.
Well, if we already have a plan in place in case of a disaster, of course it would be faster and easier to take care of because we don't have to take time figuring out what to do. This applies especially to oil spills. If we already know what needs to happen, we can make it happen before the oil has a chance to spread and become even more dangerous. This way less of the environment is contaminated and therefore less is harmed.
ReplyDeleteHaving a system also helps to heal society faster because then they know that something is definitely being done to help, and (again using the example of an oil spill) and they're at less risk of harm from the spill, as well as the environment. The knowledge that there is a solid clean up plan in place is a great comfort to the public because then they know that their lives are less likely to be affected by such a terrible thing and it will be less likely to affect the rest of the world and the environment. It sort of puts their minds at ease.
Plus, the extra time that scientists have after the disaster (because they didn't have to use up time planning clean up) to be sure that thy environment is alright and, if the disaster was particularly severe, begin to repair what damage was done.
When environmental engineers have a system already developed before a marital disaster occurs they are more prepared to fix the disaster. The environmental engineers are more trained and better prepared and already know what works and what does not. They can end it quicker so that the environment is not as hurt, and help the animals better. If they are better prepared, we can stop decades of hurt and corruption to the food chain and environment. And not only are the animals helped, but people are too. Oil spills, like the one in the gulf, effect the footing industries. They also effect tourism, which many towns and cities depend on for their town to thrive. Environmental engineers's future training may, in fact, be the future for the earth.
ReplyDeleteThere is a saying in sports that the best defense is a good offense. It pertains in this case because the more prepared we are to combat a natural of human made disaster the more efficiently and quickly we will be able to do so. The reason the BP spill took so long to be contained was that they didn't have a previously tested method of capping off a spill site. If this had been developed, they could have moved swiftly and taken care of the problem while minimizing the damage. Instead, the well continued to gush oil for 86 days.
ReplyDeleteAs for repairing society, preparedness for a disaster such as the oil spill can also stop a crisis from occuring with humanity. Because of the oil, the fishing industry in the gulf was completely shut down, along with the local businesses along the coast. If BP had ended the oil spill early on, they wouldn't have the problem of paying consolation to the fisherman, but could also avoid the claims of irresponsibility that have been fired at them throughout this crisis..
Almost all of the time when a system is developed by environmental engineers before an actual disaster occurs that system can be applied to the problem, and often it will speed up the process of clean up. However there times when the system can not be applied, such as when the system has become out dated or when nature prevents the system being put into place. I think that the easiest way to solve a problem is to look at how the problem has been solved before. If the solution worked then more then likely it will work on the current problem.
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ReplyDeleteAlso, environmental engineers can also be very important moral support for our country. If we see them prepared, and working in the field, working very hard, then the country wouldn't be that mad at BP. But, the response was certainly too little, too late.
Systems pre-developed by environmental engineers help speed up the process of recovery from such disasters as the oil spills because the systems have probably been tested on other similar catastrophes and they worked efficiently, or or at least better than the other products with the same aim. Much of the shrimp, oysters and other sea creatures America consume come from the Gulf of Mexico, so we need the best strategies, methods and technologies. This is an environmental hazard as well as an economical one.
ReplyDeleteThe systems that the environmental engineers help speed up the recovery of our world by having a plan for a situation. They help because they have a process in fixing the problem right when it starts. Also they are not going into and unknown problem.
ReplyDeleteThe environmental engineers try to plan ahead to help stop future problems like the oil spill in our case. Maybe if we were a little bit more prepared we would have been able to stop the oil, before so much spilled out, and then after that we would have been able to clean up most of the oil. Things like fire drills prepare us for if they was a real fire, so if BP would of had something along the lines of an "oil drill" we probably would have ended this problem already.
ReplyDeleteSystems developed by environmental engineers before a disaster occurs speeds up the recovery of the environment because the engineers already have a way to clean up. If the same environmental engineer who worked on the Exxon Valdez spill is now working on the B.P. spill, they will already have some experience. So, with the knowledge they have on the previous spill, they can more easily determine what needs to happen first, what works, and what doesn't, which would speed up the recovery. For instance, if the engineers know how to contain an oil spill before it happens, they could stop it quickly so that there would never even be a disaster. If there was no time wasted on trial and error, they could prevent billions of barrels of oil from polluting the words water.
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