Energy Discussion

-Solar
-Hydro
-Wind
-Nuclear

Benefits of current form of energy: It works, and has been working for years, its very compatible with everything that we need to use it for.

Drawbacks: It’s running out very quickly, its costing more and more to run the world on that type of energy, one of the reasons is the war in iraq and it making it harder to find oil and more costly to take it from that part of the world.

If we as a society started caring less about money and more about the environment in the long run then our need for the current source of energy would be obsolete. The world is being run like a business, to run a business you have to invest in your business for a long time before you can start making profit, so if we started investing in our world with more solar plants, nuclear power plants, hydro energy, and wind energy then we would be very poor for the now but in the long run it will help our economy. You have to spend money to make money.

People commit themselves to being eco friendly so they can be smug to their neighbors while “saving the planet”, and being a productive member of society. It also helps them save money by spending a lot of money.

“I would get solar power but, right now its not quite in the budget”

-My Dad

A Day Without Electronics...Sorta

Well, for my single day without electronics, it was a very simple task. I chose a day that I was in Catalina when I already had no electronics. I was there for three days, I might as well get three times the points, how does that sound! While I was there, my entertainment included swimming in the pacific, kayaking, snorkeling, playing cards, and sharing many stories with my classmates about different events that have made people feel stupid or scared. There was no way to receive the news because there was no mail, no TV, and no newspaper. The only news that I was aware of was the tsunami in Japan because that was the biggest topic of discussion at the time. Our only form of communication was yelling out really loud and hoping that the person you want to talk to can hear you and can yell loud enough to respond if they aren’t already right next to you. My most difficult gadget that I had to give up was my cell phone because I’m a teenager, my entire life is in my right pocket. The easiest thing I gave up was my iPod because I was already too busy to use it. My only surprise was that I wasn’t very bothered at all by not having any of my electronics. It was just like camping, not a big deal. It might be cheating a little bit that I was already deprived of my electronics anyway.
Once I was back to civilization, I loved having heating in my sleep. For the whole trip I had to sleep outside in a tent. Every single night, it was freezing cold and it made it hard to sleep. As soon as I got home, I was able to sleep through the whole night. I might not have been living in the year 1983, but I know that I would much rather live in the time that I was born into.