Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

For this blog we have to choose 3 PSA's that have impacted us. Truthfully not many or none at all impacted me. They all show their own significance with their own types of problems humans cause. Emma's PSA about deforestation is interesting. Humanity is at fault for many problems with deforestation. But with growing populations around the world, mass quantities of items that are needed for human survival and growth are in jeopardy. I do not think entirely humanity will stop deforestation. As long as there's a company in need of a way to get money or a country relying on paper because they do not have proper electronics like computers trees will still be cut down. Then Jeff's PSA about wind energy got my attention. Today not much is put into consideration to replace our debt in finding fossil fuel. Wind energy is one of the energy's that is a good start but down the road using it for a long time will create more of a problem that it will give as a solution. Installing huge turbines itself can create massive problems to local people living around them. First off property values drop. Not because of the "look" of the turbines but because of Wind Turbine Syndrome.Many people living within 2 km (1.25 miles) of these spinning giants get sick. So sick that they often abandon (as in, lock the door and leave) their homes. Nobody wants to buy their acoustically toxic homes. It only produces 5% or less of Americas power. Then there's electric cars. To sum it up just read the bottom. Electric Cars are often marketed as having “zero green house gas emissions”. This is rather slanted because of course generating the electricty that the car consumes is most likely going to generate some greenhouse gases. Particularly in Australia most of our electrical energy comes from coal it is just like saying “I don’t kill animals, but I buy meat”.

Monday, May 14, 2012

What I thought

I didn't really discover anything through this project other than the fact that humanity destroys more on this than we create. My family barely lives green and wont. We will turn faucets off when they don't need to be on and same with lights we don't litter and thats just about it. It didn't affect me directly at all. Sure I'll pick up trash because that's just plain stupid and irresponsible not to, but nonetheless I don't think this project touched me at all. We don't need to live green to save a planet. We just need to know what we are fully doing to this planet and what else is also in the process when it's happening.  This project didn't change me or my family nor the fact that I  didn't like the project. 

Friday, May 4, 2012

Environment for the me Jew or Palestinian

Living in an environment with your enemy 10 to 20 miles away from you would be a bit scary, intimidating and annoying. These kids are "manipulated" or grown up with this religion stating what the Palestinians or the Jew's are to them. From birth to death the population of Jews dislike the Palestinians for the problems with land issues. Both think the land belong to them and they both have "Proof" that shows it. I think one other their religions had a "misread" spot in their bible. Growing up in a situation like this is way different than what I live in. I do not have worry about our town getting raided by Delafield radicals or hate the Oconomowocians with a burning passion. They have to grow up and deal with their own Religion and the problems of what they stand for. In the movie both sides completely hated each other for the same reason. Nothing would or could change it. If I lived there and grew up there I probably would be the exact same. All because of what the elder and the Religion teach's. I'm not a very religious person but I do stand for what I believe. I believe that this whole movie and what it has showed has caught my attention on how Religion can be such a powerful thing. It puts lives on the line, wars, food, everything all the sake of what a populations Religion is.