Assessing Environmental Science

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  1. Consider the source of drinking water for your community. What is the source of the drinking water? What pollutants are potential or actual impacts on that water source? Evaluating the existing controls for these pollutants, what additional controls would you suggest to improve the environmental quality of that water source? Must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
  2. Describe the integrated waste management approach and how the four Rs of waste reduction help to provide an alternative to a throwaway economy.
    Must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
  3. Describe three sources of indoor air pollution and three sources of outdoor air pollution, as well as one prescribed method of controlling pollution for each of the six sources.
    Must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
  4. Describe three sources of point source water pollution and three sources of nonpoint source water pollution for surface water, groundwater, or oceans, as well as one prescribed method of controlling pollution for each of the six sources.
    Must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
  5. Consider the three basic but different environmental worldviews presented in this unit. Our environmental worldviews can change over time and with different learning experiences. Describe your own current environmental worldview. Which basic environmental worldview seems to be most closely related to your own current environment worldview, and why?
    Must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
  6. Describe two of the eight environmental policy principles designed to reduce environmental harm and encourage government legislatures’ environmental conservation laws and policies.
    Must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
  7. Describe six of the “Sustainability Dozen” guidelines for living more sustainably. Provide at least one example of each guideline.
    Must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
  8. Describe the five ways that low-throughput economies work to produce environmentally sustainable human societies.

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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