In Genesis, God grants humankind "dominion" over the earth. Therefore, as God's supreme creation, we have the right to manipulate nature to satisfy our needs and desires.
Let me just make this clear, as humans we do not have the right to mess nature for our own selfish desires. However, we continuously mess with nature anyway. Case in point, Global Warming. As humans continue to pump oil and burn fossil fuels, and the poor earth is getting hotter and hotter. If God did give us the power to manipulate nature for our own desires, it is obviously to see if we can handle the responsibility, and so far, we can’t! We see it happening, 60 degree weather in December and polar bears drowning. We say we’re going to "go green" but we’re too irresponsible and if it means our daily activities will have to change and becomes an inconvenience to us, the less likely we will do it, because we are selfish.
A point I want to get across is that people need to look beyond themselves. We are a great species and have created a lot of good along with the bad, but we really need to look at what we’re doing to the environment and look at what’s going to happen to the world in the years to come. Some people say, "I won’t be alive then!" but your kids will. Do you really want your children, or your grandchildren to live in a world where cities are underwater! Do you want to even give them a chance to live?? People need to stop being selfish, plain and simple. We need to stop putting gas into our big cars and start planting trees or something, because if we have the power to mess up nature, we have the power to fix it.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
An Inconvenient Truth
One of the questions raised by An Inconvenient Truth is, how will you follow your passion? Mr. Gore sets a compelling example of someone who has used his education to address some of the most pressing problems facing the planet today. How will you use your education to make the world a better place?
I will try to talk to people about global warming and the things we can do to help our environment. I also encourage people to visit this website The Story of Stuff, which I found to be very helpful, interesting, and educating on showing us our status as consumers in the world and the effects and damage we contribute on a daily basis. Now that I know of the things we can do to help our environment I will be able to practice them more. I’ve never recycled even though I already knew about that, but it’s about time I do it.
Another thing many of us fail to realize is the toxins in our personal care products, such as shampoos, conditioners, body lotions and creams, our soaps, everything. These toxins are not only hazardous to our health, but to the environment as well. Many personal care and household products are made with a lot of fillers and synthetic chemicals, that are known to be irritants and can cause people to develop skin rashes and health issues, such as asthma, mental illnesses, reproductive problems and even cancer. Many of these chemicals also contaminate the water and air, causing pollution that is harmful to the environment, such as naptha, amyl acetate, formaldehyde, diglycol laurate, and many more chemicals. So by being aware of the products we use and the ingredients they contain, we can prevent these harmful effects and create a safer environment.
Here are some good sites to check out:
www.climatecrisis.net
I like this site, because it gives you evidence of global warming and ways you can take action against it.
www.energystar.gov
This is a good website, if your thinking about buying new appliances, becasue these will help save energy and money.
www.newdream.org/junkmail
Want to end your junk mail, here's how to rid your name from the mailing list.
www.hybridcars.com
Need I say more.
I will try to talk to people about global warming and the things we can do to help our environment. I also encourage people to visit this website The Story of Stuff, which I found to be very helpful, interesting, and educating on showing us our status as consumers in the world and the effects and damage we contribute on a daily basis. Now that I know of the things we can do to help our environment I will be able to practice them more. I’ve never recycled even though I already knew about that, but it’s about time I do it.
Another thing many of us fail to realize is the toxins in our personal care products, such as shampoos, conditioners, body lotions and creams, our soaps, everything. These toxins are not only hazardous to our health, but to the environment as well. Many personal care and household products are made with a lot of fillers and synthetic chemicals, that are known to be irritants and can cause people to develop skin rashes and health issues, such as asthma, mental illnesses, reproductive problems and even cancer. Many of these chemicals also contaminate the water and air, causing pollution that is harmful to the environment, such as naptha, amyl acetate, formaldehyde, diglycol laurate, and many more chemicals. So by being aware of the products we use and the ingredients they contain, we can prevent these harmful effects and create a safer environment.
Here are some good sites to check out:
www.climatecrisis.net
I like this site, because it gives you evidence of global warming and ways you can take action against it.
www.energystar.gov
This is a good website, if your thinking about buying new appliances, becasue these will help save energy and money.
www.newdream.org/junkmail
Want to end your junk mail, here's how to rid your name from the mailing list.
www.hybridcars.com
Need I say more.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Leisure Time
Ahh leisure time...something I would love to have more of. It seems no matter how long some days feel there just aren’t enough hours in a day. Going to school full time and then off to work I usually don’t get a lot of free time and when I do I’m usually trying to catch up to all my errands or so exhausted that I just stay in bed. If I decide to watch tv, I usually watch comedy shows, the national geographic channel, or the discovery channel. When I get ready for school or to go to work I’ll watch tv for maybe a half hour or so and when I really have time maybe just a few hours.
I do spend some time on the internet, maybe 2 days out of the week, to just look up skin care products and ingredients for my future body butters that I plan on making and to do a little shopping. So out of a 168 hr week I spend about 49 sleeping (7hrs a night), 35 working, 15 in school, 14 getting ready, 12 commuting, leaves me with about 43 hrs free. Half of that I would say I spend watching tv or on the internet and some of the time left over studying and doing my homework and the rest of my time left, well I don’t even know what I do, which probably brings me the most joy cause I might be laying down resting.....o wait I’m probably running my errands at this point. One thing I do have time for is my family, we are always talking and joking around, my other activities don't get in the way of that.
Living in the city becomes so fast paced, that you never seem to have time to catch up to everything you need to do. The majority of people’s lives usually consist of work, so when we finally have that free time, what do we do, we shop. Shopping has become so addicting that even when we are broke we find a way to shop, by charging it on our magical plastic card. And speaking of plastic can you imagine all the damage we are doing to our environment with all this shopping. It’s just 1 shopping bag after another, after another, and after another, whether it’s big or small, we just keep on taking them, and whether it’s paper or plastic, it keeps hurting our environment, because all we do is throw them out and all the energy wasted on making them, becomes waste. Yes we all need to shop some time, but let’s be smart about it and at least bring our own bags and stop wasting the paper and plastic ones.
And when we’re not shopping on our leisure time, we’re usually doing something that’s wasting more energy, such as watching tv, listening to music, keeping all the lights on, doing the laundry and so on. So instead of having so many lights on lets turn off a few and use CFL bulbs instead as well as energy saving appliances, this will not only help out the environment, but it’ll save us some money too. I know many people who love to have the tv on muted, the radio on, and talk on the phone, all at the same time.....please just pick one, there is no need for all of that to be on, it’s pointless, by doing that your just helping the "Big Guys" and it’s just making your pockets smaller.
I do spend some time on the internet, maybe 2 days out of the week, to just look up skin care products and ingredients for my future body butters that I plan on making and to do a little shopping. So out of a 168 hr week I spend about 49 sleeping (7hrs a night), 35 working, 15 in school, 14 getting ready, 12 commuting, leaves me with about 43 hrs free. Half of that I would say I spend watching tv or on the internet and some of the time left over studying and doing my homework and the rest of my time left, well I don’t even know what I do, which probably brings me the most joy cause I might be laying down resting.....o wait I’m probably running my errands at this point. One thing I do have time for is my family, we are always talking and joking around, my other activities don't get in the way of that.
Living in the city becomes so fast paced, that you never seem to have time to catch up to everything you need to do. The majority of people’s lives usually consist of work, so when we finally have that free time, what do we do, we shop. Shopping has become so addicting that even when we are broke we find a way to shop, by charging it on our magical plastic card. And speaking of plastic can you imagine all the damage we are doing to our environment with all this shopping. It’s just 1 shopping bag after another, after another, and after another, whether it’s big or small, we just keep on taking them, and whether it’s paper or plastic, it keeps hurting our environment, because all we do is throw them out and all the energy wasted on making them, becomes waste. Yes we all need to shop some time, but let’s be smart about it and at least bring our own bags and stop wasting the paper and plastic ones.
And when we’re not shopping on our leisure time, we’re usually doing something that’s wasting more energy, such as watching tv, listening to music, keeping all the lights on, doing the laundry and so on. So instead of having so many lights on lets turn off a few and use CFL bulbs instead as well as energy saving appliances, this will not only help out the environment, but it’ll save us some money too. I know many people who love to have the tv on muted, the radio on, and talk on the phone, all at the same time.....please just pick one, there is no need for all of that to be on, it’s pointless, by doing that your just helping the "Big Guys" and it’s just making your pockets smaller.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
We Can Make a Difference
Every action of ours affects the environment whether it’s in a positive or a negative way. We all pretty much have the same routine in the morning we get up, brush our teeth, shower, and then we’re off to work, school, or maybe just running some errands. All of these things affect our environment. After many reports of global warming effecting the environment I decided to learn more about decreasing my daily carbon emissions. It is my mission to go green.
Turning off the faucet when I brush my teeth is something I always do, it’s a simple step that helps reduce my daily carbon emissions. A low flow shower head can also save a few hundred pounds a year of CO2 from being emitted into the air, although I must admit this is a hard one for me to do, since I love showering with hard water pressure, which yes is what I used this morning. So I try to do some other things to reduce my CO2 emissions is by turning off my power strip, unneeded lights, and unplugging anything that is not being used. I also use paperless billing which is easy to use and can also help save our trees, we already live in a computerized world so we might as well receive our bills online too.
Unfortunately it is sad to know that there are many people who do not care about the environment and our world. Most people say if they won’t be alive by the time global warming’s consequences occur than why should they care, well they should care!! Why should future generations and our world suffer the consequences of our generation, when we knew the affects of global warming and what we could do to change it! It’s a shame to see how careless, greedy, and selfish people can be when our world is at stake! Simple changes can make a big difference and it’s our responsibility to do the right thing. So I hope that everyone reading this will join me on my journey and go green :-D!!!
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