Sunday, August 8, 2010
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Katelynn Corbett
Mrs. Buchanan
4th Hour
S: The Story of Stuff really showed me how long the process of making stuff is and how we directly contribute to it. I knew that the United States is wasteful, but I never expected us to be that bad. I always thought that people were exaggerating. With the U.S. being only 5% of the world's population and using 30% of the world's resources, that's just ridiculous! Luckily not every one lives like us, because if they did we would need 3 to 5 more planets. We really need to change our ways, for the planet's sake. Already 80% of the world's original forests are gone, wiped out by humans and their wasteful consumption. Our water is even suffering. In the U.S. 40% of the water ways are undrinkable. All of this pollution and the world running out of resources is due to us consuming too much. People shop constantly, instead of buying just the necessities. It's no surprise since Americans watch nearly 3,000 commercials a day. We don't even keep what we buy! 99% of what Americans buy is thrown out in 6 months. In the U.S. each person throws out 4.5 pounds of garbage per day. So where does it all go? To sit for hundreds of years in big holes in our planet. Or we just burn it up, releasing harmful toxins into the air, and then bury it. We burn our garbage in incinerators, which release super toxins into the air. It's not a coincidence that an increasing percentage of people are getting asthma and cancer. The government has corporations making products that don't last, so we have to buy more. Even though I wasn't surprised at hearing this, it still appalled me. I know that most people don't mean to be wasteful, but we have to change it. It's up to us to help save our planet.
Q: People really need to cut make in the products that we are using. It would help the planet out so much. Let's say everyone int the U.S. does cut back. We still have an enormous amount of waste. What can we do with it so that it doesn't sit in landfills for hundreds of years, releasing toxins into the air?
Mrs. Buchanan
4th Hour
S: The Story of Stuff really showed me how long the process of making stuff is and how we directly contribute to it. I knew that the United States is wasteful, but I never expected us to be that bad. I always thought that people were exaggerating. With the U.S. being only 5% of the world's population and using 30% of the world's resources, that's just ridiculous! Luckily not every one lives like us, because if they did we would need 3 to 5 more planets. We really need to change our ways, for the planet's sake. Already 80% of the world's original forests are gone, wiped out by humans and their wasteful consumption. Our water is even suffering. In the U.S. 40% of the water ways are undrinkable. All of this pollution and the world running out of resources is due to us consuming too much. People shop constantly, instead of buying just the necessities. It's no surprise since Americans watch nearly 3,000 commercials a day. We don't even keep what we buy! 99% of what Americans buy is thrown out in 6 months. In the U.S. each person throws out 4.5 pounds of garbage per day. So where does it all go? To sit for hundreds of years in big holes in our planet. Or we just burn it up, releasing harmful toxins into the air, and then bury it. We burn our garbage in incinerators, which release super toxins into the air. It's not a coincidence that an increasing percentage of people are getting asthma and cancer. The government has corporations making products that don't last, so we have to buy more. Even though I wasn't surprised at hearing this, it still appalled me. I know that most people don't mean to be wasteful, but we have to change it. It's up to us to help save our planet.
Q: People really need to cut make in the products that we are using. It would help the planet out so much. Let's say everyone int the U.S. does cut back. We still have an enormous amount of waste. What can we do with it so that it doesn't sit in landfills for hundreds of years, releasing toxins into the air?
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