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Drew-O

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My name is Drew, i would like to get more information about my enviroment out of this class. I took this class because i would rather take a more challenging class than the regualars.

 

What does the word “sustainable society” mean to you?  Do you believe that it is possible for the society you live in to become a sustainable society within the next 50 years?

     I believe that sustainable society is a society that is able to sustain itself within the margins of over the limit or under the limit.  I do believe that it is possible to sustain a society for 50 years because sustaining a society only takes careful care of the factors that control the population and what controls the population.

 

In what way do humans occupy generalist niches and in what ways do they occupy specialist niches?  Do you think humans should become more dependent on a greater variety of foods and energy resources to promote long-term survival and sustainability?  Explain and discuss the short and long term economic and political consequences of such a shift.

     Humans occupy generalist niches because we are about to withstand a wide variety of change of most things. Such as; temperature, weather, and food consumtion. We are able to consume wide varieties of food. We can withstand different temperatures and weather such as hot, cold, rainy, snowy, and windy. I think that humans occupy specialist niches because our bodies can only take so much because of our insides or organs. Our organs or insides are very sensitive to bacteria and other stuff of that sorts. I think that humans are fine in the way we eat, what we eat, and get our energy.

 

Suppose a hurricane blows down most of the trees in a forest.  Timber company officials offer to salvage the fallen trees and plant a tree plantation to reduce the chances of fire and to improve the area’s appearance, with an agreement that they can harvest the trees when they reach maturity and plant another tree farm.  Others argue that the damaged forest should be left alone because hurricanes and other natural events are part of nature and the dead trees will serve as a source of nutrients for natural recovery through ecological succession.  What do you think should be done and why?

          I think that the trees should be left alone.  That is apart of the cycle and the nutrients from the decomposing trees  will help the new vegitation to grow back.  I believe that if you let the tree harvester's foot in the door there is no keeping them out, and they will take over the forest and anything that grows in it.  Yes, they made an agreement but people change when money is involved.  So I believe they should be kept out of the forest just for that reason.

 

 

Congratulations – you have just been put in charge of the world.  Explain the 5 most important features of your population policy.

          My population policy would include restricting it. By onegiving rewards for only having one to two children.  If you only have one child then your child will recieve full benefits and college funding, if you have two children then your child will recieve half of that, but if u have more then that then u recieve nothing.  I would keep up with sex ed classes and keep supplying the young with sex prevention tools.  Three, i would keep abortion legal. Myself i believe abortion could safe a young person's life and career. Four, i would make rules for twins, such as, you are allowed to have twins and still recieve full for both of them but the second set will not be paid for neither one. Finally, five, I would come up with some type of punishement for the people who had children at a young age and couldnt afford to take care of it. 

Some people argue that starving people could get enough food by eating non conventional plants and insects; other point out that most starving people do not know what plants and animals are safe to each and cannot take a chance on experimenting when even the slightest illness could kill them.  If you had no money to grow or buy food, would you collect and eat protein-rich grasshoppers, moths, or other insects?

          I would do this if it were absolutly nessasary.  I would want to animals before i ate bugs and plants. If i had to eat them i would cook them somehow first.  I do not see how you would have any other choice but to eat them if you were starving. 

 

Congratulation!  You are in charge of reducing air pollution in your country.  List the 3 most important features of your policy.

      The important parts of my policy would include reduce the emissions of cars right of the bat. I would have spending sent to finding out how to efficently start a line to create flex and hybrid cars and to stop deforestation.  With reducing car emissions there will be much less pollutants in the air.  Which will help things out greatly.  With stopping deforestation there will be more plants to carryout photosynthesis and trap more CO2 from the air. My third policy would be to control population; which is the main cause of this problem anyways. More people means more cars, more food production, more fossil fuel being burnt, etc.  So the less people the less pollutants.

 

The United States now imports more than half the oil it uses and could be importing 64% of its oil by 2020.  Explain why you are for or against continuing to increase oil imports.  What do you believe are the 5 best ways to reduce oil imports?

      I believe that importing our oil is a bad thing because we depend too much on other countries. If they just all of a sudden stop; what then? Will we finally then realize that we need to start drilling and coming up with alternative energies. Why have a wakeup call for us to change; why not just spontaneously?  Probably the most important is creating flex fuel cars.  Another is to create alternative energies for things besides cars such as mowers, pressurewashers, etc.  We could start drilling our OWN oil and start to support ourselves more than past has.  We could send oil out of our country for money and interest from what we are also buying from middle east to gain proffits.  Finally my fifth way to reduce imports is to take over their country and control it our selves.

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