Ray Rodriguez
Consuming Products is all in the head
Why do we spend to keep spending? What is consumption? The basic idea throughout the video “The Story of Stuff” by Annie Leonard and the passage from Allen D. Kanner’s and Mary E. Gomes’s “The All-Consuming Self” is that we think we want or need something therefore we go out and get it. This feeling of consumption comes from satisfaction in material items. In the video, Americans are considered to be one of the biggest consumers in the world. Why is this? Through times of crisis our political leaders tell us to shop in order to regulate money and help “stimulate the economy”. This eventually has become a habit in which Americans shop for fun. According to Kanner, “satisfying basic material needs” is the main reason why companies add advertisements and logos to attract more customers within their area (Kanner 81). The “three thousand ads a day” ingested by Americans shows how everything even we ourselves are walking logos (Kanner 81). Commercials are usually targeted to the young who lack charisma or just need a motive in life, and why not more than having to by things. Technology being “dormant, Sleeping Beauty” shows that even though certain consumer thoughts out there we have no control over it (Kanner 85). The videos uses of political and big business as a connected way of saying that the bigger businesses have a powerful affect on the government “The Story of Stuff” Annie Leonard. For example, Victor La-Boas use of spiritual and egotistical satisfactions shows how through commercial our everyday decisions are determined by what we see and what the government wants us to hear. The fact that the economy is rising because of spending, the richer get richer because of ideas, while the poorer get poorer because they want items they can’t have. The use of human alleviation through out the passage and the video shows how some products through advertisement are used by the public in order to feel better and get things off of their minds rather than just staying at home and think of everything negatively. This also plays into how simple items like the juice box in the video are so non-renewable that it posses a bigger threat to society. These items were either made to harm the environment or can’t be disposed after it looses its purpose also harming the environment. That is why so many products are releasing either carbon dioxide or dioxins into the atmosphere causing a very great harm. So next time you shop you will know that commercials got you to the store by advertising something compelling that you want to hear.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Great Escape
Ray Rodriguez
The Great Escape
Can’t Bear to Stand the Pain
Problems are faced constantly by living organisms. Either human or animal global warming is a global problem. The photo on http://www.flickr.com/photos/southen/2180883271/in/photostream/ (“The Great Escape”) shows how a bear (panda) is “leaning over the edge” of what appears to be a building. In other words the way of living for most animals is affected by different problems like global warming making them look for a new home. The endangerment of certain animals is due to a change in either weather patterns or the species bear are supposed to be on the top of the food chain which it is on top of the building, but if that’s true then why do bears die constantly? Well the fact that global warming affects their habitat like polar bears and the melting of ice, pandas with forest fires, and brown bears with the deforestation caused by carbon dioxide producing items. Trends in the temperature changes shown by (Kolbert, Elizabeth) in “The Climate of Man-II” shows that because of the increase of temperature, the rise of sea levels due to melting of Arctic ice shows that even though their lives are affected slowly, our lives are also affected at the same pace. The constant amounts of drowning would be the same as the bear jumping off of the ledge. I think that if we don’t act now their will not only be more than one bear on the top of that building you would also sea people on their. Why? Because we all live in the same planet and our use of technology affects the amount of greenhouse gasses therefore, causing great catastrophe within the planet and only the most powerful with authority will survive because of their roles in society.
Since buildings have floors, you can see social classes broken up and since bears are very dominant, they are on top of the animal kingdom but when their food is not able to be produced or be able to reproduce the roles in society change therefore, in order for survival we must also change our actions and lifestyles to accommodate others.
Work cited:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/southen/2180883271/in/photostream/
“Kolbert, Elizabeth" The Climate of Man-II." The New Yorker 2 May 2005: 9”
The Great Escape
Can’t Bear to Stand the Pain
Problems are faced constantly by living organisms. Either human or animal global warming is a global problem. The photo on http://www.flickr.com/photos/southen/2180883271/in/photostream/ (“The Great Escape”) shows how a bear (panda) is “leaning over the edge” of what appears to be a building. In other words the way of living for most animals is affected by different problems like global warming making them look for a new home. The endangerment of certain animals is due to a change in either weather patterns or the species bear are supposed to be on the top of the food chain which it is on top of the building, but if that’s true then why do bears die constantly? Well the fact that global warming affects their habitat like polar bears and the melting of ice, pandas with forest fires, and brown bears with the deforestation caused by carbon dioxide producing items. Trends in the temperature changes shown by (Kolbert, Elizabeth) in “The Climate of Man-II” shows that because of the increase of temperature, the rise of sea levels due to melting of Arctic ice shows that even though their lives are affected slowly, our lives are also affected at the same pace. The constant amounts of drowning would be the same as the bear jumping off of the ledge. I think that if we don’t act now their will not only be more than one bear on the top of that building you would also sea people on their. Why? Because we all live in the same planet and our use of technology affects the amount of greenhouse gasses therefore, causing great catastrophe within the planet and only the most powerful with authority will survive because of their roles in society.
Since buildings have floors, you can see social classes broken up and since bears are very dominant, they are on top of the animal kingdom but when their food is not able to be produced or be able to reproduce the roles in society change therefore, in order for survival we must also change our actions and lifestyles to accommodate others.
Work cited:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/southen/2180883271/in/photostream/
“Kolbert, Elizabeth" The Climate of Man-II." The New Yorker 2 May 2005: 9”
In class assignment
Ray Rodriguez
Sprawl City
Even though there are many causes for the increase of greenhouse gasses, the increase of immigration is a major reason why greenhouse gasses increase. On the website, http://www.sprawlcity.org/ the video (“The Impact of Immigration Policy on the Environment”, also on youtube.com) shows how Leon Kolankiewicz a Wild Life Biologist and Environmental Planner views immigration. Throughout the videos, his issues on population relates back to how the increase of population of certain areas with larger populations affects the amount of greenhouse gasses because of an increased usage of technology. An important statement he made that was controversial was that the United States does not need Middle Eastern oil; however, wouldn’t that create an increase of costs and harm the economic environment. Leon’s connection to his visit to Honduras shows that since there is a lack of economic growth, the population is the cause. The lack of resources in schools which are overcrowded with 50 plus students in class shows how the migrations of people into urban areas cause less rates of economic growth, but increase the amount of competitions and will eventually cause a higher use of technology that cause greenhouse gasses. Leon’s connection to Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” is clearly the best example. Al Gore’s idea of survival makes the topic of immigration a possible threat to the survival of the world. The decrease of vegetation and food will create chaos and the cause of it was the need for more technology in over crowded areas. Therefore survival of the fittest created by immigration will make the amount of greenhouse gasses increase as resources also become limited.
Work Cited:
http://www.sprawlcity.org/ video: The Impact of Immigration Policy on the Environment, on youtube.com
An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount, 2005.
Sprawl City
Even though there are many causes for the increase of greenhouse gasses, the increase of immigration is a major reason why greenhouse gasses increase. On the website, http://www.sprawlcity.org/ the video (“The Impact of Immigration Policy on the Environment”, also on youtube.com) shows how Leon Kolankiewicz a Wild Life Biologist and Environmental Planner views immigration. Throughout the videos, his issues on population relates back to how the increase of population of certain areas with larger populations affects the amount of greenhouse gasses because of an increased usage of technology. An important statement he made that was controversial was that the United States does not need Middle Eastern oil; however, wouldn’t that create an increase of costs and harm the economic environment. Leon’s connection to his visit to Honduras shows that since there is a lack of economic growth, the population is the cause. The lack of resources in schools which are overcrowded with 50 plus students in class shows how the migrations of people into urban areas cause less rates of economic growth, but increase the amount of competitions and will eventually cause a higher use of technology that cause greenhouse gasses. Leon’s connection to Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” is clearly the best example. Al Gore’s idea of survival makes the topic of immigration a possible threat to the survival of the world. The decrease of vegetation and food will create chaos and the cause of it was the need for more technology in over crowded areas. Therefore survival of the fittest created by immigration will make the amount of greenhouse gasses increase as resources also become limited.
Work Cited:
http://www.sprawlcity.org/ video: The Impact of Immigration Policy on the Environment, on youtube.com
An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount, 2005.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Where will everyone live? Not Suburbia
Ray Rodriguez
Where will everyone live? Not Suburbia.
Usually the area where you live has an affect on how you grow up. Since some Americans grow up in the suburbs, they learn to live by the “American Dream” white picket fence, stay at home mom and a successful father shaping their usage of certain technological items. More immigration in the United States causes more risks for competition towards what is available. In the video on http://sprawlcity.org/ “Sprawl City” shows how since immigration is increasing, the amount of greenhouse gasses is based on “Immigration = population + affluence + technology (IPAT)” stated by Leon Kolankiewicz. This basically means more people the more usage of technology due to amount of money made; therefore, more greenhouse gasses. Also other arguments posed on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCe?WCVWZbdo&feature=fvw “Radiant City: Suburban landscape” and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXNb1uifds&feature=channel “Radiant City: commuting” are that suburban areas are according to Andres Duany “cookie cut” because the current frame of the homes are weak and are made with lack of interest and creativity. Also most suburban areas are closed off and makes it harder to get certain things for example the use of commuting to areas where there are stores, jobs and other conveniences there fore causing an estimated “55, 8 hour workday driving” stated in the video “Radiant City: commuting” But why did this fascination all start? Well some had the bright idea “Post War wealth” after gaining cheaper energy and resources shown in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM “End of Suburbia: Trailer”. On the other hand it is estimated that this way of living will not be sustained because the amount of luxury will not be supported by civilization and create a massive change to ways of living.
I think that if the ideas of living a better life, most actions like the migration to Jamestown would not have taken place, eventually not leading us to industrial advances and use of certain items to become better then the people around us isolating us from society. As referred by the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM “End of Suburbia: Trailer”, the black out; the black out was a life changing experience for many people who lived on the east coast making their speculations of we can do what ever we want, this is America, we have everything just vanish in the blink of a light. I know my views changed, I actually saw what I took for granted after that experience. If suburban America continues to try and set standards, eventually they will fall do to insufficient materials or energy to help supply the luxurious life. Eventually this raises the question where would they all go easy smaller neighborhoods like mine. Living in the Southside Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY makes it difficult to be able to go around and not see prices rise, new condominiums rise and the poorer minorities like me be slowly pushed away into the curb just so that the “elite” and wealthier people could just live a fabulous life while I have to find affordable housing and be able to have enough money to pay for what is actually necessary for my everyday life.
Work Cited:
http://sprawlcity.org/ “Sprawl City”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM “End of Suburbia: Trailer”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCe?WCVWZbdo&feature=fvw “Radiant City: Suburban landscape”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXNb1uifds&feature=channel “Radiant City: commuting”
Where will everyone live? Not Suburbia.
Usually the area where you live has an affect on how you grow up. Since some Americans grow up in the suburbs, they learn to live by the “American Dream” white picket fence, stay at home mom and a successful father shaping their usage of certain technological items. More immigration in the United States causes more risks for competition towards what is available. In the video on http://sprawlcity.org/ “Sprawl City” shows how since immigration is increasing, the amount of greenhouse gasses is based on “Immigration = population + affluence + technology (IPAT)” stated by Leon Kolankiewicz. This basically means more people the more usage of technology due to amount of money made; therefore, more greenhouse gasses. Also other arguments posed on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCe?WCVWZbdo&feature=fvw “Radiant City: Suburban landscape” and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXNb1uifds&feature=channel “Radiant City: commuting” are that suburban areas are according to Andres Duany “cookie cut” because the current frame of the homes are weak and are made with lack of interest and creativity. Also most suburban areas are closed off and makes it harder to get certain things for example the use of commuting to areas where there are stores, jobs and other conveniences there fore causing an estimated “55, 8 hour workday driving” stated in the video “Radiant City: commuting” But why did this fascination all start? Well some had the bright idea “Post War wealth” after gaining cheaper energy and resources shown in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM “End of Suburbia: Trailer”. On the other hand it is estimated that this way of living will not be sustained because the amount of luxury will not be supported by civilization and create a massive change to ways of living.
I think that if the ideas of living a better life, most actions like the migration to Jamestown would not have taken place, eventually not leading us to industrial advances and use of certain items to become better then the people around us isolating us from society. As referred by the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM “End of Suburbia: Trailer”, the black out; the black out was a life changing experience for many people who lived on the east coast making their speculations of we can do what ever we want, this is America, we have everything just vanish in the blink of a light. I know my views changed, I actually saw what I took for granted after that experience. If suburban America continues to try and set standards, eventually they will fall do to insufficient materials or energy to help supply the luxurious life. Eventually this raises the question where would they all go easy smaller neighborhoods like mine. Living in the Southside Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY makes it difficult to be able to go around and not see prices rise, new condominiums rise and the poorer minorities like me be slowly pushed away into the curb just so that the “elite” and wealthier people could just live a fabulous life while I have to find affordable housing and be able to have enough money to pay for what is actually necessary for my everyday life.
Work Cited:
http://sprawlcity.org/ “Sprawl City”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM “End of Suburbia: Trailer”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCe?WCVWZbdo&feature=fvw “Radiant City: Suburban landscape”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXNb1uifds&feature=channel “Radiant City: commuting”
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Dear little miss know at all
Ray Rodriguez
In-Class Assignment/Nightly Blog Assignment
Dear Rayne,
For many years their have been scandals and denials; but none of them relate more to how big corporate organizations exploit the public by trying to manipulate the topic of global warming in order to get more clients. The idea of “global warming” being an important topic is used mainly by the larger companies in order to protect their money. Sick, isn’t it? Well that what daddy is doing. I know you must live lavishly have all the luxuries in the world but when your home is six feet under an ocean of water who’s to blame. I know how your father believes recent trends and the ideology of that the weather is forever changing and that humans do not cause global warming; is all a scam. So now, do you still believe his lies? The Exxon Mobile exposure has been one of the biggest failures but it’s alright your father paid scientist to research ideas that have been proven to be factually correct. The tracking of weather patterns, oceanic temperatures, and carbon dioxide emissions have been tracked down through many years of scientific evidence and satellite images according to “Tim Ball”. Since there have been many confrontations, some scientist who believe that global warming is a natural process of the Earth are not really involved with the studies of sciences dealing with global warming shown in Mark Maslin’s “Global Warming A very short introduction” (Maslin 60). Therefore, siding with your father and his ignorant hypothesis (Maslin 60).
I’ll give you another reason on why not to like your father. Companies like your father’s are uniting with others; just like his to increase in their profit, even though it causes harm to the environment. I recall your father is Lee Raymond, the CEO of Exxon Mobile (a prominent oil company) also the biggest company paying for denial advertisements against global warming according to the videos “The Climate Change Denial Industry” http://youtube.com/watch?v=digrkvoa78o and “Global Warming: Junk Science vs. Real Science” http://youtube.com/watch?v=guqahvq1psc&feature=related. The use of modern thermometers and satellites can easily track changes in climate and temperatures according to Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth, Dir. Davis Guggenheim, Perf. Al Gore, DVD, Paramount, 2005”. Also many ideas vied by Maslin show how some view global warming as an exaggeration because the planet has its own control over weather, but yet it’s only a 20 year period tracked by Maslin (Maslin 62) but yet according to Gore’s evidence which comes from over thousands of years we are to a point which was unexpected do to weather trends. Carbon dioxide is an “amplifier” to the climate (Maslin 60), but yet why is it increased, there has to be a cause. According to the scientists in the IPCC the energy comes from the sun; therefore, having the sun as a number one energy source and supposedly a cause of global warming (Maslin 62-63). Just to let you know because of your fathers insufficient evidence, their aren’t many who will back him up causing his views to become less interesting and put up less of a fight. The main reason for his denial of human cause of global warming is basically to increase his wealth and not care for others outcomes and that could even be daddy’s little girl.
Not to say he’s a bad man, he just makes bad decisions in which show lack of character and care for issues that can be solved different ways; his new idea of energy saving is catching on and is starting to show a care for global warming. The idea of just protecting his own views show a lack of ethics and easily shows why he is choosing to deny the issue of global warming to protect his Co2 emitting oil company running on top.
Sincerely,
Ray Rodriguez
Work cited:
Maslin, Mark. Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions). New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008.
An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount, 2005.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/new_hope_for_global_warming_de.html
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/maccracken-legates/
In-Class Assignment/Nightly Blog Assignment
Dear Rayne,
For many years their have been scandals and denials; but none of them relate more to how big corporate organizations exploit the public by trying to manipulate the topic of global warming in order to get more clients. The idea of “global warming” being an important topic is used mainly by the larger companies in order to protect their money. Sick, isn’t it? Well that what daddy is doing. I know you must live lavishly have all the luxuries in the world but when your home is six feet under an ocean of water who’s to blame. I know how your father believes recent trends and the ideology of that the weather is forever changing and that humans do not cause global warming; is all a scam. So now, do you still believe his lies? The Exxon Mobile exposure has been one of the biggest failures but it’s alright your father paid scientist to research ideas that have been proven to be factually correct. The tracking of weather patterns, oceanic temperatures, and carbon dioxide emissions have been tracked down through many years of scientific evidence and satellite images according to “Tim Ball”. Since there have been many confrontations, some scientist who believe that global warming is a natural process of the Earth are not really involved with the studies of sciences dealing with global warming shown in Mark Maslin’s “Global Warming A very short introduction” (Maslin 60). Therefore, siding with your father and his ignorant hypothesis (Maslin 60).
I’ll give you another reason on why not to like your father. Companies like your father’s are uniting with others; just like his to increase in their profit, even though it causes harm to the environment. I recall your father is Lee Raymond, the CEO of Exxon Mobile (a prominent oil company) also the biggest company paying for denial advertisements against global warming according to the videos “The Climate Change Denial Industry” http://youtube.com/watch?v=digrkvoa78o and “Global Warming: Junk Science vs. Real Science” http://youtube.com/watch?v=guqahvq1psc&feature=related. The use of modern thermometers and satellites can easily track changes in climate and temperatures according to Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth, Dir. Davis Guggenheim, Perf. Al Gore, DVD, Paramount, 2005”. Also many ideas vied by Maslin show how some view global warming as an exaggeration because the planet has its own control over weather, but yet it’s only a 20 year period tracked by Maslin (Maslin 62) but yet according to Gore’s evidence which comes from over thousands of years we are to a point which was unexpected do to weather trends. Carbon dioxide is an “amplifier” to the climate (Maslin 60), but yet why is it increased, there has to be a cause. According to the scientists in the IPCC the energy comes from the sun; therefore, having the sun as a number one energy source and supposedly a cause of global warming (Maslin 62-63). Just to let you know because of your fathers insufficient evidence, their aren’t many who will back him up causing his views to become less interesting and put up less of a fight. The main reason for his denial of human cause of global warming is basically to increase his wealth and not care for others outcomes and that could even be daddy’s little girl.
Not to say he’s a bad man, he just makes bad decisions in which show lack of character and care for issues that can be solved different ways; his new idea of energy saving is catching on and is starting to show a care for global warming. The idea of just protecting his own views show a lack of ethics and easily shows why he is choosing to deny the issue of global warming to protect his Co2 emitting oil company running on top.
Sincerely,
Ray Rodriguez
Work cited:
Maslin, Mark. Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions). New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008.
An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount, 2005.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/new_hope_for_global_warming_de.html
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/maccracken-legates/
Monday, July 13, 2009
Do ideas change about climate?
Ray Rodriguez
Your viewpoint determines the future
Do ideas change?
There are usually some unexplainable occurrences that can not be explained. One action that happens in our everyday in our lives is weather and climate changes, since you cannot control the weather, your ideas do change as time and experiences happen. For a couple of years I have witnessed certain outcomes of weather related mishaps either as primary or secondary sources. In Mark Maslin’s “Your viewpoint determines the future” shows how certain forms of information can contradict certain views or ideologies to determine whether you have the same views of nature or if your ideas shift from time to time due to changes in view.
I have always seen nature as a powerful force that at any given time can just become unbalanced and very destructive. As shown and depicted by the graphs (Maslin 37, 39, and 40) one can see different views on how predicted weather patterns can occur; either never ending, stabilized, based on human affects, become unbalanced, or the point of no return. I clearly was shocked by these ideas even though I knew that climate changes will affect us in the long run but not to this extent. I was clearly shocked by this passage because the numbers and different outcomes are each a one/fourth chance of actually happening making all risks horrible out comes of global warming. Nature’s beauty is too wonderful to get rid of but even with certain ramifications we still can’t reverse the damages that have already been done.
Since I am always trying to figure out why things happen, I was clearly shocked by Maslin’s passage because I just thought that after global warming takes place some will survive; however, there is a point of no return and the planet will just shut down on itself causing an addition and change to how I view and how much more I should value my life. Knowing that I will be able to have newer knowledge through this passage, I will now be able to understand why certain scenarios are possibilities mainly because there isn’t always a happy ending to all fairy tails(like the world that we live in).
Global warming is a serious issue and since scientist find so many changes in what can be an outcome, my ideas are usually changing as well in order to be able to fully understand the topic that is known as Global warming.
Work Cited:
(Masslin, Mark) Global Warming a Very Short Introduction, New York: Oxford
University Press Inc, 2004
Your viewpoint determines the future
Do ideas change?
There are usually some unexplainable occurrences that can not be explained. One action that happens in our everyday in our lives is weather and climate changes, since you cannot control the weather, your ideas do change as time and experiences happen. For a couple of years I have witnessed certain outcomes of weather related mishaps either as primary or secondary sources. In Mark Maslin’s “Your viewpoint determines the future” shows how certain forms of information can contradict certain views or ideologies to determine whether you have the same views of nature or if your ideas shift from time to time due to changes in view.
I have always seen nature as a powerful force that at any given time can just become unbalanced and very destructive. As shown and depicted by the graphs (Maslin 37, 39, and 40) one can see different views on how predicted weather patterns can occur; either never ending, stabilized, based on human affects, become unbalanced, or the point of no return. I clearly was shocked by these ideas even though I knew that climate changes will affect us in the long run but not to this extent. I was clearly shocked by this passage because the numbers and different outcomes are each a one/fourth chance of actually happening making all risks horrible out comes of global warming. Nature’s beauty is too wonderful to get rid of but even with certain ramifications we still can’t reverse the damages that have already been done.
Since I am always trying to figure out why things happen, I was clearly shocked by Maslin’s passage because I just thought that after global warming takes place some will survive; however, there is a point of no return and the planet will just shut down on itself causing an addition and change to how I view and how much more I should value my life. Knowing that I will be able to have newer knowledge through this passage, I will now be able to understand why certain scenarios are possibilities mainly because there isn’t always a happy ending to all fairy tails(like the world that we live in).
Global warming is a serious issue and since scientist find so many changes in what can be an outcome, my ideas are usually changing as well in order to be able to fully understand the topic that is known as Global warming.
Work Cited:
(Masslin, Mark) Global Warming a Very Short Introduction, New York: Oxford
University Press Inc, 2004
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Are We Really Being Told the Truth?
Ray Rodriguez
Blog
Global Warming
Are We Really Being Told the Truth?
The changes in time create different problems to be solved. Global warming, an unstoppable/irreversible problem that has put the planet of Earth into issues that cause major harms. The film, “An Inconvenient Truth, Dir. Davis Guggenheim, Perf. Al Gore, DVD, Paramount, 2005” has raised awareness to the topic of global warming. One potential problem to be aware of are the vast environment and climate changes in all over the world. The melting of glaciers and the ice caps has lead to droughts, harmful precipitation, and other natural disasters like tornadoes in Mid-West America, hurricanes in the Caribbean and the state of New Orleans with hurricane Katrina, and typhoons in Japan. The arctic creates reflecting shields to reflect the suns rays into space to create a stable climate and weather for the planet; according to "Global Warming" (Mark Maslin) the first diagram (The Earth’s annual global mean energy balance shows a detailed form of how the Earth absorbs and releases heat through the aid of the polar ice caps and how it transfers its energy through out. However, the melting of the ice caps causes an increase of sea level. Eventually, the raise in sea level will create a catastrophic change to areas where the sea level is lower, like New York City. The out come of spreading of water has lead to a spread of diseases like the West Nile Virus and Swine Flu due to heat expulsion, lack of water, and the air around precipitated water. Finally air bubbles collected by scientist’s show recent trends in the temperature changes “Kolbert, Elizabeth" The Climate of Man-II." The New Yorker 2 May 2005: 9” and graphs shown in "Global Warming" (Mark Maslin). This topic has been touched upon briefly by some political leaders who care about the environment like former Vice President for the Clinton Administration Al Gore but yet his actions are not enough to convince people globally. This eventually leads to how military wars could just break out if there is competition due to food shortages leading to survival of the fittest as shown in An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount , 2005.
Blog
Global Warming
Are We Really Being Told the Truth?
The changes in time create different problems to be solved. Global warming, an unstoppable/irreversible problem that has put the planet of Earth into issues that cause major harms. The film, “An Inconvenient Truth, Dir. Davis Guggenheim, Perf. Al Gore, DVD, Paramount, 2005” has raised awareness to the topic of global warming. One potential problem to be aware of are the vast environment and climate changes in all over the world. The melting of glaciers and the ice caps has lead to droughts, harmful precipitation, and other natural disasters like tornadoes in Mid-West America, hurricanes in the Caribbean and the state of New Orleans with hurricane Katrina, and typhoons in Japan. The arctic creates reflecting shields to reflect the suns rays into space to create a stable climate and weather for the planet; according to "Global Warming" (Mark Maslin) the first diagram (The Earth’s annual global mean energy balance shows a detailed form of how the Earth absorbs and releases heat through the aid of the polar ice caps and how it transfers its energy through out. However, the melting of the ice caps causes an increase of sea level. Eventually, the raise in sea level will create a catastrophic change to areas where the sea level is lower, like New York City. The out come of spreading of water has lead to a spread of diseases like the West Nile Virus and Swine Flu due to heat expulsion, lack of water, and the air around precipitated water. Finally air bubbles collected by scientist’s show recent trends in the temperature changes “Kolbert, Elizabeth" The Climate of Man-II." The New Yorker 2 May 2005: 9” and graphs shown in "Global Warming" (Mark Maslin). This topic has been touched upon briefly by some political leaders who care about the environment like former Vice President for the Clinton Administration Al Gore but yet his actions are not enough to convince people globally. This eventually leads to how military wars could just break out if there is competition due to food shortages leading to survival of the fittest as shown in An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount , 2005.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Ray Rodriguez
Summary
The Climate of Man
Global Warming
Global warming, an issue with potential solutions but no measures are being taken to help the issue. In all areas around the world there are hazards that are caused by global warming leading to harmed environments and a threat to other neighboring countries. Scientist have globally detected occurrences and have found evidence that causes one to believe the probable outcomes of global warming will eventually affect all races, ethnicity or religion. Alaskan’s are moving away from their homes in order to avoid the problem of being left stranded and without a home. The melting ice in Alaska causes a skeptic look on survival for certain areas in Alaska like the city of Shishmaref which is slowly loosing its land due to eroded torn away ice leading to higher elevations in sea level causing threat to the residents of that area according to (Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine 2005). In the area of Fairbanks there are constant deforestations and constant fires due to the heat causing “Drunken Trees” (Romanovsky, The New Yorker 2005). Also due to global warming, the country of Greenland is slowly melting away as it posses threats t other societies and areas like the eastern coast of the United States. Scientist in former President Jimmy Carter’s panel have raised awareness to the issue of pollution and Carbon dioxide emissions leading to the pollution and Global Warming but even then, it was too late to slow down the process, in other words the damage has already been done. Basically, society’s outcomes are from the affects of the past and previous disregard of the problem and when it is too late to solve the problem everyone who is innocent suffers the most.
Summary
The Climate of Man
Global Warming
Global warming, an issue with potential solutions but no measures are being taken to help the issue. In all areas around the world there are hazards that are caused by global warming leading to harmed environments and a threat to other neighboring countries. Scientist have globally detected occurrences and have found evidence that causes one to believe the probable outcomes of global warming will eventually affect all races, ethnicity or religion. Alaskan’s are moving away from their homes in order to avoid the problem of being left stranded and without a home. The melting ice in Alaska causes a skeptic look on survival for certain areas in Alaska like the city of Shishmaref which is slowly loosing its land due to eroded torn away ice leading to higher elevations in sea level causing threat to the residents of that area according to (Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine 2005). In the area of Fairbanks there are constant deforestations and constant fires due to the heat causing “Drunken Trees” (Romanovsky, The New Yorker 2005). Also due to global warming, the country of Greenland is slowly melting away as it posses threats t other societies and areas like the eastern coast of the United States. Scientist in former President Jimmy Carter’s panel have raised awareness to the issue of pollution and Carbon dioxide emissions leading to the pollution and Global Warming but even then, it was too late to slow down the process, in other words the damage has already been done. Basically, society’s outcomes are from the affects of the past and previous disregard of the problem and when it is too late to solve the problem everyone who is innocent suffers the most.
Global Dubs
According to scientist in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), society's actions are taking a toll on the way we are currently living and how our future ancestors will live. The increase in the use of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants are slowly taking affect on the amount of control and the change of predictions that scientist have had on global warming which are projected to be catastrophic with a lead to either an over flow water or lack of water referred to as "water stress" (Masin, Mark, 2). Finally challenges of recognizing or neglecting current trends in the difficulties in understanding global warming will cause a lead to an increase of sea levels and amount of deforestation in the areas with an increase of heat or colder temperatures during the winter because of changes in climate, leading political leaders trying to help societies mishaps as it is too late to change our chances of reversing global warming.
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