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Are Russia’s Environmental Problems Are Russia’s Environmental Problems

as Large as the Country?as Large as the Country? By Lily FitzgeraldBy Lily Fitzgerald

Tamarac Middle School, 6th GradeRPI EcoEd Research Program

Spring 2013

Background InfoBackground Info• Government – Federation

• President – Vladimir Putin

• Population – 142, 517, 670 people

• Area - 17, 098, 242 sq. kilometers

• Borders China, Latvia, Kazakhstan, …

Moscow

St. Petersburg

Norilsk

•Current temperature around 50° to 60°

GovernmentGovernment• Has a federation,

characterized by a union of partly self-governing states under a central government

• Can vote at age 18• President has more

power than Prime Minister

• Russian = main language

Vladimir Putin

(President)Head of the

State and the government

DmitryMedvedev

(Prime Minister)Deputy to President,

chief administrator

Capital CityCapital City• Moscow

• Most populated City

• 11, 979, 529 people

• 969 sq. kilometers

• About 2 times the size of NYC

Citizens Opinions

• Citizens don’t care

• Many are dissatisfied

• Not trying to come up with solutions

Complete Overview

Oil Industry Problems

Air Pollution Problems

Natural Resource Depletion Problems

Oil Industry Solutions

Air Pollution Solutions

Natural Resource Depletion Solutions

Oil industryOil industry• oil use pollutes the air, not the only thing

polluting the air

• depend on money from selling oil, demand for oil is decreasing

• causing climate change affecting all of the population

Air PollutionAir Pollution

• Causing premature/ early deaths

• Citizens are encouraged to stay home often

• Unhealthy to constantly be breathing in

Natural Resource DepletionNatural Resource Depletion• Population decreasing of animals such as

polar bears, who are already endangered

• Affects human health and habitat, ice thawing from oil, floods land

• They are not thinking of this as a “major problem”

Environmental Solutions OverviewEnvironmental Solutions Overview

• Oil - Reducing oil production

• Air Pollution - Minimizing Car Use

• Natural Resource Depletion - Bringing in Outside Groups (WWF)

Reduce Oil ProductionReduce Oil Production• Other countries are not buying, alternative

ways

• Not as many buyers = not as much needed

• Oil industry is always fluctuating

Wind Farm• planning to build its first largest wind farm

• $200 million is needed

• will create 200 billion kilowatt-hours of energy per year

Reducing Car UseReducing Car Use

• Limits on car use would help the air

• Fewer cars = less gas, fewer cars = less pollution

Outside Groups (WWF)Outside Groups (WWF)• Only so much WWF

can do• WWF –

– improve forest regulation

– Prevent illegal cuttings

• CRNC (Center for Russian Nature Conservation)

• Russian Conservation News covers a wide range of topics, including:

– Protected Areas– Endangered Species– Conservation

Management– Environmental Education

Future of RussiaFuture of Russia

• such a large part of the world, what affects their environment, affects us all

• hard to predict the future with the environment anywhere, but particularly in Russia

• citizens are thinking about planning solutions, but don’t know what is more important; the environmental solutions, or their own lives

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