Final Project "Russia"
Axia University of University of Phoenix
SCI Environmental Science
Siri (Nimal) Wickramaratne
Stephanie Kyler
August 19, 2007
Final Project "Russia"
It is estimated at least one in five Russian babies born today is in poor health. In Moscow, three out of four expectant mothers have some pathology in their pregnancy. Males in one Arctic village are not expected to live beyond their early 40s; women in this village usually do not live beyond their late 40s (Russia , 2007). Children and adults throughout Russia suffer from respiratory and intestinal disorders at a rate many times higher than elsewhere in the world.
Although such grim statistics are in part a result of poor nutrition, inadequate medical care, cigarette smoking, and alcoholism, extensive environmental degradation remains a primary culprit. As the largest of the former Soviet Union's 15 republics, Russia helped direct a massive military industrial machine that stretched from the Baltics......
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