Medical And Environmental Flashcards
Causes of Global warming
- Burning fossil fuels causes rise in temperature
* Natural rise in temperature
Effects of global warming
- Ice Caps melting - land submerged
- Increase in extreme weather
- Floods/ drought - food shortages
- Animals and Plants die.
Solutions of Global Warming
•Individual - RRRs
Walk/ cycle
•Govt. and Organisations - laws to reduce energy
• Research - ways to prevent it
Forms of Pollution
Waste
Land
Air
Water
Waste Pollution
Leads to
Cause
- takes space –> disease
* tech production
Land Pollution
Leads to
Cause
- poor plant growth, habitat.
* litter, radioactive
Air Pollution
Leads to
Cause
- acid rain, smog
* chemicals, gases
Water pollution
Leads to
Causes
- loss of habitat; low quality of water
* fertilisers, sewage and litter
Solutions to Pollution
- RRRs - create less waste
- Renewable sources of energy
- Govt. - anti pollution laws
- Research- manufacturing methods to reduce waste.
Non Renewable
✅ and ❌
✅
• efficient
•cheaper
❌
•pollutes
•runs out
Renewable
✅ and ❌
✅
•renewable
•no pollution
❌
•not as efficient
Issues with scarce NR
- Too reliant on them
- They will run out soon
- Pollutes
- Alternatives are available
Conservation
Conservation - involves protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment for future generations.
Solving issues with NR
- Use renewable energy sources
- Conserve electricity
- walk/ cycle
- Use renewable source products
Why Christians should look after Earth?
•Authority - God gave Dominion - POWER+ RESPONSIBILITY
- Responsibility- God given
- Judge- God will
- Jesus - love and take care
Effect on Christians
Environment
- share fairly - Jesus said
- conserve resources
- take care - gift
- reduce pollution to help
- teach others
Muslims and Stewardship
Authority - Khalifas have responsibility.
- Creation- Allah created so take care.
- Judge - Allah will judge
- Ummah- look after the world
Infertility treatments
✅
- everyone deserves right to a child
- worth it
- same- sex couple can’t naturally conceive
- be fruitful and multiply
Fertility treatments
❌
- alternative - adoption
- expensive
- drugs have side effects
- relationship under great strain
Christians and Infertility
✅
- be fruitful and multiply
- God intended for married couple to have children
- Love thy Neighbour
- God gave Technology
Christians and Infertility
❌
•embryos destroyed- thou shalt not kill •3rd person thou shall not commit adultery •no one has 'right to have child' of its not God's will •test
Muslims and Infertility
✅
- IVF - Ensoulment
- sperm and egg from couple
- technology
- Allah’s wish
Muslims and Infertility
❌
- adultery - IVF
- surrogacy - wrong, mother is birther
- plan
- text
Organ Donation
✅
- if not used would be wasted
- helps others
- 2nd chance for someone
- saves lives
Organ Donation
❌
- expensive
- how to decide who the receiver is?
- pressured by family to donate.
- some are taken advantage of
Christians and Organ Donation
✅
- Love thy neighbour
- Immortality of the soul - body not seeded.
- Golden Rule
- Show gratitude for the body you got.
Christians and Organ Donations
❌
- Sanctity of Life - ‘playing God’
- Plan
- Test
- God’s creation- don’t replace parts
Muslims and Organ donation
✅
- Allah’s wish for lives to be saved
- Live donations have no effect on Resurrection
- Close relative
- Lawyers allow
Muslims and Organ donation
❌
- Qur’an - don’t interfere with body after death.
- Resurrection needs organ.
- Sanctity of Life
- Test
