Pollution Control In Las Vegas.
Two approaches have been used to control
pollution? Government mandates and
market incentives. Suggest how market
incentives might be used to deal with a
pollution problem in Las Vegas. I
find this topic to be very interesting, not
only because it concerns all of
us living in Las Vegas, but because we are also
part of the problem.
Pollution is not a laughing matter, and it has been
strongly fought, without
much success, in Southern Nevada in the past several
years. One thing that
makes fight pollution harder, is the exponentially growth
of the population.
That increases the number of cars out on the street, which
means more
traffic, and also higher production of garbage, and that translates
itself
into pollution. A lot can be done to decrease the traffic, to clean
the
Las Vegas wash, or to purify the air, for an example. The problem is,
programs
take a lot of money and a lot of time. For a program to turn out
with an
effective result, first you need researchers, and you also need a lot
time to
research, and that takes capital. That is the main reason why so many
programs
go wrong. Trying to fight the air pollution is hard. One of the ways
that the
local government tried to make the air pollution decrease was to
build more
roads. That is supposed to work because traffic would move at
higher speeds,
resulting in less congestion and eventually less pollution.
But in the other
hand, the constructions the highways put in the air high
levels of dust, anther
way of pollution. Cheaper ways of reducing pollution
are available. But for
those to become effective we need the community’s and
the government’s help.
Obviously we do need traffic improvements, but we
need to provide greater
incentives to employers to get them to stagger work
hours, we need to provide
greater incentives to get employers to allow people
to work at home whenever
possible, and we need more trails so people don't
feel like they have to get
into their car to go anywhere. That would be a
cheap and effective way to reduce
pollution. We could also promote more
public transportation. Making the CAT bus
more attractive to the population
more people would ride it. Cheaper rates or a
higher number of buses on the
street would also be another way. That was a
description of how my paper is
going to be. All my work will be done solo. My
plan is to make a 7 pages
project in which I will describe my thesis,
anti-thesis, synthesis, outlook,
perspective, so on and so forth. I will suggest
how market incentives might
be used to deal with a pollution problem. And I also
want to present
affordable and more convenient ways to reduce pollution in
Southern
Nevada. I will research the local library and the Internet
for
information.
Bibliography
I read a couple of articles on
the Internet, which can be found at
www.vegas.com.