Post 14 Quote 5
Quote:
"Strolling through the average supermarket, shoppers find literally hundreds (if not thousands) of items to make their lives easier. Individually wrapped snack cakes, plastic baggies to store sandwiches for lunch, unbreakable soda bottles, and disposable razors, diapers, and shampoo bottles. Unless specifically requested, even the bags we use to carry home our goods are often plastic. To humans, these are items of comfort, if not necessity. But to marine animals, they can be a floating minefield."
Evaluation:
It probably does not seem like people go through allot of plastic in a day, but we do. Not to mention the plastic that our DVD's and CD's are stored in and wrapped prior to used or the plastic toys that are purchased and loss on a daily bases. We can provide ourselves and our children with reusable lunch pails, we can recycle our soda bottles, instead of using disposable razors purchase a rechargeable one. Use cloth bags at the market, you can wash them and reused them. If you are a stay at home parent, used the old cloth diapers that can be sterilize and wash. Every time we purchase a product and dispose of it we are contributing to the pollution to our planet. Think before you buy an item and think before you dispose of it.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Post 13 Quote 4
Quote:
"The impact we have on the environment today is making a big difference on the world of future generations. Heck, it’s making an impact right now in a lot of places. It’s our responsibility to care for our planet and ensure our future well-being."
Evaluation:
This quote I found to be true, the actions that we take to protect the environment and to maintain the health of it, will make a big difference for us and for future generations. It is our responsibility for we are the only species whom can ensured the survival of our own species and those of others. Every time we recycle a soda can or a newspaper we are making a difference. Every time we donate a used cell-phone or computer to charity, we are making a difference. Small things like those can make a difference and they do. We must continue with it! We must demand our government leaders, no matter where we are from to make and keep regulations designed to protect the environment but to protect our species and countless others as well. We are making an impact!
Quote:
"The impact we have on the environment today is making a big difference on the world of future generations. Heck, it’s making an impact right now in a lot of places. It’s our responsibility to care for our planet and ensure our future well-being."
Evaluation:
This quote I found to be true, the actions that we take to protect the environment and to maintain the health of it, will make a big difference for us and for future generations. It is our responsibility for we are the only species whom can ensured the survival of our own species and those of others. Every time we recycle a soda can or a newspaper we are making a difference. Every time we donate a used cell-phone or computer to charity, we are making a difference. Small things like those can make a difference and they do. We must continue with it! We must demand our government leaders, no matter where we are from to make and keep regulations designed to protect the environment but to protect our species and countless others as well. We are making an impact!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Post 12 Quote 3
http://famousquoteshomepage.com/Environmental_Quotes_Support_Preservation_of_Our_Natural_Environment.htm
Quote:
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”
Robert Redford (1936- )
One of Hollywood’s superstars and a legend in American popular film culture, Robert Redford is not only an actor and producer, but and environmentalist and philanthropist, as well.
Evaluation:
Robert Redford has been a long time supporter of aiding and protecting the environment. I think he feels that if the United States can spend money on protecting our borders and interest oversees than we can spend money on protecting our own resources, such as trees, water, air and land. I agree with his point of view, if we don't protect our interest what do we have to defend.
http://famousquoteshomepage.com/Environmental_Quotes_Support_Preservation_of_Our_Natural_Environment.htm
Quote:
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”
Robert Redford (1936- )
One of Hollywood’s superstars and a legend in American popular film culture, Robert Redford is not only an actor and producer, but and environmentalist and philanthropist, as well.
Evaluation:
Robert Redford has been a long time supporter of aiding and protecting the environment. I think he feels that if the United States can spend money on protecting our borders and interest oversees than we can spend money on protecting our own resources, such as trees, water, air and land. I agree with his point of view, if we don't protect our interest what do we have to defend.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Post 11 Quote 2
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch1.htm
Quote 2:
"Plastic has acutely affected albatrosses, which roam a wide swath of the northern Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses frequently grab food wherever they can find it, which leads to many of the birds ingesting -- and dying from -- plastic and other trash. On Midway Island, which comes into contact with parts of the Eastern Garbage Patch, albatrosses give birth to 500,000 chicks every year. Two hundred thousand of them die, many of them by consuming plastic fed to them by their parents, who confuse it for food [source: LA Times]. In total, more than a million birds and marine animals die each year from consuming or becoming caught in plastic and other debris."
Evaluation:
Albatrosses inhabit a wide range of the northern Pacific Ocean, as they fly in toward the ocean surface they are grabbing whatever they can to consume. During breeding season they are taking their daily catch back to their young. The birds are not catching fish they are catching trash, such as plastic and other types of trash that they can carried away. The adults and young are consuming trash on a day to day bases, and they are dying from it. Birds are not the only life dependent on the ocean to survive are dying from mankind inventions and consumption, turtles and dolphins are included in the list of species who are dying from coming into contact with our oceans dumps. They did not have to eat the trash, but many of them are swimming through or surfacing for air are coming into contact with the surface debris.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch1.htm
Quote 2:
"Plastic has acutely affected albatrosses, which roam a wide swath of the northern Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses frequently grab food wherever they can find it, which leads to many of the birds ingesting -- and dying from -- plastic and other trash. On Midway Island, which comes into contact with parts of the Eastern Garbage Patch, albatrosses give birth to 500,000 chicks every year. Two hundred thousand of them die, many of them by consuming plastic fed to them by their parents, who confuse it for food [source: LA Times]. In total, more than a million birds and marine animals die each year from consuming or becoming caught in plastic and other debris."
Evaluation:
Albatrosses inhabit a wide range of the northern Pacific Ocean, as they fly in toward the ocean surface they are grabbing whatever they can to consume. During breeding season they are taking their daily catch back to their young. The birds are not catching fish they are catching trash, such as plastic and other types of trash that they can carried away. The adults and young are consuming trash on a day to day bases, and they are dying from it. Birds are not the only life dependent on the ocean to survive are dying from mankind inventions and consumption, turtles and dolphins are included in the list of species who are dying from coming into contact with our oceans dumps. They did not have to eat the trash, but many of them are swimming through or surfacing for air are coming into contact with the surface debris.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Post 10 Quote 1
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."- Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was a noted American anthropologist and writer. During her travels around the world, she would studied the culture of different societies. She came to the conclusion that the human race ( no matter where they live) are dependent on the environment.
I think she nailed it on the head. People do not realize how dependent they are on the environment to survive. Many believe that it is the amount of money they have, or the number of cars they own. All of that do not mean a thing if there is no clean drinking water to drink, fresh air to breathe or uncontaminated food to eat. Our race cannot make clean water, clean air or safe food.
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."- Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was a noted American anthropologist and writer. During her travels around the world, she would studied the culture of different societies. She came to the conclusion that the human race ( no matter where they live) are dependent on the environment.
I think she nailed it on the head. People do not realize how dependent they are on the environment to survive. Many believe that it is the amount of money they have, or the number of cars they own. All of that do not mean a thing if there is no clean drinking water to drink, fresh air to breathe or uncontaminated food to eat. Our race cannot make clean water, clean air or safe food.
Monday, November 21, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/opinion/the-republicans-vs-the-environment.html?_r=1&ref=cleanairact
Post 9 Source 8
Summary:
This year along the Republican controlled Congress has voted 168 times to undercut the clean air and water laws that has been an aid to cleaning up and repairing our environment since 1970. They have also bee blocking efforts to limit global warming, protect public lands and guard against future oil spills.
The old Republican guard was environmental friendly, but the ones that are in office now are more in allegiance to the industries and a constant refusal to accept the fact of climate changes that are taking place around the globe.
The Republicans claim that
"regulation cost jobs and all they are trying to do is help the working man. What they are really doing by destroying years of environmental law is putting the interests of corporations above all others and threatening public health."
Evaluation:
It comes down to this; the controlling party wants to sacrifice the health and safely of our planet for their own pockets. Regulators must go through the American Petroleum Institute (API), which is the oil's industry's lobbyist, as the law stands regulators cannot seek independent advice on drilling safety that is not affiliated with the API.
How many more lives will be lost?
How many species will go extinct?
What will it take to get our representatives to think about all of us and not just there pockets?
They claim we have too many regulations, that is why the unemployment rate is high. Our unemployment rate is 10% in this country, but our employment rate is 90%.
They need a different angle.
Post 9 Source 8
Summary:
This year along the Republican controlled Congress has voted 168 times to undercut the clean air and water laws that has been an aid to cleaning up and repairing our environment since 1970. They have also bee blocking efforts to limit global warming, protect public lands and guard against future oil spills.
The old Republican guard was environmental friendly, but the ones that are in office now are more in allegiance to the industries and a constant refusal to accept the fact of climate changes that are taking place around the globe.
The Republicans claim that
"regulation cost jobs and all they are trying to do is help the working man. What they are really doing by destroying years of environmental law is putting the interests of corporations above all others and threatening public health."
Evaluation:
It comes down to this; the controlling party wants to sacrifice the health and safely of our planet for their own pockets. Regulators must go through the American Petroleum Institute (API), which is the oil's industry's lobbyist, as the law stands regulators cannot seek independent advice on drilling safety that is not affiliated with the API.
How many more lives will be lost?
How many species will go extinct?
What will it take to get our representatives to think about all of us and not just there pockets?
They claim we have too many regulations, that is why the unemployment rate is high. Our unemployment rate is 10% in this country, but our employment rate is 90%.
They need a different angle.
Friday, November 18, 2011
http://www.newpolity.com/2010/10/21/why-we-need-to-protect-our-environment/
Post 8 Source 7
Summary:
You have two homes, you have your primary residence, such as your apartment or house and you have the earth. Without clean air, water or land it would be difficult to survive. Without a healthy planet, there would be no life here. In the United States, the environment has become a political issue. Republicans oppose the idea that humans are responsible for the pollution that causes global warming, they don't think it exists. Democrats, on the other hand has recognize that pollution is a major cause of global warming, they have sided with the scientists who has studied the evidence.
If you agreed with the Republican party, step outside while you are in the city. Take a deep breath, don't the garbage smell good, or the exhaust fumes from the automobiles smell wonderful. Now, take a trip to the country, take a breath, do you smell the garbage, how about the exhaust fumes from the automobiles?
Evaluation:
I live in the country, when I go to the city I feel the difference in air temperature. I can be chilly at my house and need a sweater to stay warm, but by the time I get to the city , I don't need it. The sweater comes off, and it goes back on the closer I get to home. I can smell the exhaust from the automobiles and trucks that go up and down the road in the cities, but at home it smells better, cleaner, and fresher.
We don't have the amount of traffic that the city does.
Washington is in denied, I use to live there. It is a dirty city, with tons and traffic. The suburbs are cleaner to look at, but it don't smell that much better. Our representatives should listen to the scientists who has study the environment and the effect that human activity has had on it, before it is too late.
Post 8 Source 7
Summary:
You have two homes, you have your primary residence, such as your apartment or house and you have the earth. Without clean air, water or land it would be difficult to survive. Without a healthy planet, there would be no life here. In the United States, the environment has become a political issue. Republicans oppose the idea that humans are responsible for the pollution that causes global warming, they don't think it exists. Democrats, on the other hand has recognize that pollution is a major cause of global warming, they have sided with the scientists who has studied the evidence.
If you agreed with the Republican party, step outside while you are in the city. Take a deep breath, don't the garbage smell good, or the exhaust fumes from the automobiles smell wonderful. Now, take a trip to the country, take a breath, do you smell the garbage, how about the exhaust fumes from the automobiles?
Evaluation:
I live in the country, when I go to the city I feel the difference in air temperature. I can be chilly at my house and need a sweater to stay warm, but by the time I get to the city , I don't need it. The sweater comes off, and it goes back on the closer I get to home. I can smell the exhaust from the automobiles and trucks that go up and down the road in the cities, but at home it smells better, cleaner, and fresher.
We don't have the amount of traffic that the city does.
Washington is in denied, I use to live there. It is a dirty city, with tons and traffic. The suburbs are cleaner to look at, but it don't smell that much better. Our representatives should listen to the scientists who has study the environment and the effect that human activity has had on it, before it is too late.
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