In-class practice by Huran Mirillo

In-class practice by Huran Mirillo https://padlet.com/mhuran/ig1j81qkrarv Paraphrase check en-us 2017-08-16 08:37:50 UTC 2026-02-15 09:50:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mhuran/ig1j81qkrarv/wish/181220705 We may be at an important moment in the history of British environmental politics. The environment is degrading at ever faster rates while public awareness of this is greater than ever and one of Britain’s most powerful social movements—trade unionism—is newly mobilising to address the problem. This article stems from a wider investigation of UK unions’ environmental activism and seeks to challenge the view that unions were, until recently, uninterested in environmental issues. To that end, it examines environmental policy-making at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the “national co-ordinating centre of British Trade Unionism” 1 (McIlroy 1995, 45), in the period of 1967–2011. There is a “subordinate tradition” of caring for the environment within UK socialism (Dobson 2005, 188) and, as John Monks recalls, “I was not aware, upon becoming TUC General Secretary [in 1993], of the environment being a brand new shiny subject”. 2 Town- and city-level red-green alliances in the 1970s and 1980s were not uncommon (Diani 2002; Doherty n.d.; Doherty, Plows, and Wall n.d.) and British unions had participated in Australianinspired “green bans” in the mid-1970s, campaigning against the loss of green spaces and inappropriate development. Furthermore, when faced with redundancies in 1976, the unions at Lucas Aerospace famously formulated a radical alternative vision of a company committed to the manufacture of environmental friendly and socially useful goods (Elliott, Green, and Steward 1978, 45). Nevertheless, during the 1970s and 1980s unions were infrequent environmental actors, seemingly confirming the view that they were the weak link in the labour–environmental relationship (LER), to be cajoled and incentivised to participate. The newer environmental movement organisations (EMOs), formed in the 1960s and 1970s, stood outside the UK’s political opportunity structure, of which unions were privileged members (Byrne 1997, 4). ]]> 2017-08-16 08:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mhuran/ig1j81qkrarv/wish/181220705 As the 2014 Ebola crisis showed the world, infectious diseases are a serious threat, though they are not new to oil and gas workers. Infectious diseases have long been a health hazard that the industry has worked hard to mitigate. Malaria impacts all operations in Africa as well as many parts of Asia. It is critical that operating companies take steps to protect their workers by controlling the mosquito populations onsite, providing early diagnosis and treatment, and, for non-immune workers, providing chemoprophylaxis to prevent a potentially deadly infection for those not born and raised in malaria-endemic areas (McCashin, 2015). https://padlet.com/mhuran/ig1j81qkrarv/wish/181224745
Infectious diseases ,such as malaria and tuberculosis, are a major threat to workers’ health, especially in Africa and many parts of Asia. Malaria is spread by mosquitoes and tuberculosis is caused by a kind of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These diseases are common to oil and gas workers (McCashin, 2015).

]]> 2017-08-16 09:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mhuran/ig1j81qkrarv/wish/181224745 https://padlet.com/mhuran/ig1j81qkrarv/wish/181225266 Water pollution would occurs if harmful pollutants are discharged into rivers without appropriate treatment to reach the standards. Water is indispensable to human and advancement of industry. Therefore, with the population growing, more and more innocuous water is requested. Because water is fragile, so it should be conducted in a sustainable system to make sure that human can use limited water resource. There are several considerable difficulties in developing countries to manege the water resource in a good way, such as poor awareness of public environmental protection and powerless regulatory (Medema et al. 2008, cited in Afroz, 2014).

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