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”.

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