From Pollution to Fracking: Narrowing Down Our Topic
At the beginning of this project, we all were interested on the how pollution can cause non-infectious diseases. One of our first challenges was to decide which type of pollution we wanted to research (water pollution, air pollution, light pollution, etc.). After doing some research and discussing with Ernie, we finally decided on water pollution. On Tuesday in class, we created mind maps to help us narrow down our topics. During this, the conflicts of Flint Michigan and fracking came up. We were hesitant at first about fracking as a topic, considering no one in the group knew too much about it.
That night, we each read a different article on a subtopic of water pollution. The next day, after we shared all of our research, we finally decided on the topic of fracking. Now that we had our topic, we needed to figure out how we can relate to non-infectious diseases. Charlotte found an article from the Natural Resources Defense Council that solved the answer to our problem. It clearly stated that respiratory problems, cancer, nervous system impacts, birth defects, and blood disorders can all be in response to chemicals in fracking waste.
That night, we each read a different article on a subtopic of water pollution. The next day, after we shared all of our research, we finally decided on the topic of fracking. Now that we had our topic, we needed to figure out how we can relate to non-infectious diseases. Charlotte found an article from the Natural Resources Defense Council that solved the answer to our problem. It clearly stated that respiratory problems, cancer, nervous system impacts, birth defects, and blood disorders can all be in response to chemicals in fracking waste.