The career that I want to pursue is being an environmental engineer. Environmental engineering, in general, is the integration of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment, to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate pollution sites. The engineers are also concerned with finding plausible solutions in the field of public health, arthropod-borne diseases, and to implement laws to remediate and adequately place correct sanitation in urban, rural, and recreational areas such as playgrounds or national parks. Female and male engineers also are in charge of waste water and waste disposal management, the control of air pollution, recycling anything (especially shipping containers), radiation protection (for those citizens that live next to the nuclear plants), the rights to industrial hygiene, environmental sustainability (energy efficiency, water and gas conservation, waste reduction, etc.), and take care of public health issues. You should have some kind of environmental engineering law school degree with you before you leave college. It is basically the same thing. The only difference is that the law degree gives that person the right to be the lawyer for the better future of the envionment. The "green" lawyer protects any of the above laws if they are broken. The "green" lawyers have to have both environmental engineering and law school to address complex environmental problems, most frequently include land transactions.
I chose this career as my main career because I am concerned for the environment, that we are burning off tons of fossil fuels and that our present leadership doesn`t seem to look at that. I do believe that renewable energy is the future for the United States, economically as well. We already have some electric cars coming out of motor companies such as Ford, Chevy, Nissan of America, and Tesla Motors just to name a few. The United States could once again be the the giant powerhouse of the world. All we need is for someone to believe in this type of future and implement it into everyday life.
The way that it fits into racism, profiling and discrimination is how some people are placed in categories depending on the location of their home, either being from a dirty farm or coming from a sleek, industrial-designed megacity. Also race has to do with how sanitary an ethnic group is and how I can help them meet sanitation codes, as the engineer that I will be in the near future. Race and ethnicity has to do with environmental sciences in general because we tend to segregate those that we think are filthy and don`t pick up for themselves to those that want to leave a pretty, clean, and manicured park the way it is. Also it can be on the city funds, too. Maybe some cities have money to keep the city clean but it is just not enough to keep up with the city`s demand for more street-sweepers and rainstorm drains.
