Russia Are Russia’s Environmental Problems as Large as the Country? By Lily Fitzgerald Tamarac Middle School, 6th Grade RPI EcoEd Research Program Spring 2013

Background 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

Government 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) Dmitry Medvedev (Prime Minister)

Capital City Moscow Most populated City 11, 979, 529 people 969 sq. kilometers About 2 times the size of NYC

Complete Overview Oil Industry Problems Air Pollution Problems Natural Resource Depletion Problems Oil Industry Solutions Air Pollution Solutions Natural Resource Depletion Solutions

Oil 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 Pollution Causing premature/ early deaths Citizens are encouraged to stay home often Unhealthy to constantly be breathing in

Natural 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 Overview Oil - Reducing oil production Air Pollution - Minimizing Car Use Natural Resource Depletion - Bringing in Outside Groups (WWF)

Reduce Oil Production Other countries are not buying, alternative ways Not as many buyers = not as much needed Citizens try not to use as much to make a point 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 Use Limits on car use would help the air Citizens do not want to have limits Fewer cars = less gas, fewer cars = less pollution

Outside Groups (WWF) Hoping WWF can come up with solutions for the near future Solutions to the animals and environment in general WWF says that there is only so much they can do Up to the communities to step up and at least try to find some solutions

Future 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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