FREE ESSAY ON CONTROL POLLUTION SOLUTIONS

CONTROL POLLUTION SOLUTIONS

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. For this outline, I read a couple of articles
on the Internet, which can be found at www.vegas.com.