COLLAPSE

Jared Diamond explains how with great power come great responsibility. No matter how great our society becomes there is always chance of doom. He talked about ancient civilizations that left us with wonders but they disapeared and research show that it may have been caused by ecological disaster. With great destruction comes alot of death and migration of people and beings that live in that society.When disasters happens I think it is the way of the earth telling us we are doing something wrong. He also talks about when one place has a disaster another place usually gains from that said disaster. Money does not come from saving the planet it is from benefiting and exploiting our planets resources.



I do think that the environments that damage their self are doomed for destruction in the long run. From what we our seeing now with global warming and air pollution. Sea levels are rising which will lead to our major city's, which our usually based at sea will flood. With our air quality the chemicals will increase and spread causing diseases and poison throughout humans and all beings everywhere. Eventually natural disasters will increase and our citys will fall just as what has happened in the past.

class reflection

After this class i really think my view on life as a being is more ecocentric. This world around us controls us as individuals. If our world collapses we will fall aswell. I think it is more of a priority to help our world rather than ourselves first. Like the saying we are setting world for our grand kids, we came to this world as great as it is let us leave it that way

John Francis Walks the Earth

This ted talk was a very interesting video. The man whom it was about, John Francis is an environmentalist with a quirky story. When he was younger he stopped using motor vehicles because of an oil spill he witnessed. A couple years after he stopped talking and walked across america. On his journeys he went to different school and gained his PhD in environmental studies with some gracious help. I think he is trying to spread his message that even little changes that one person makes can affect him greatly in the long run. From city hopper to UN goodwill ambassador and a renowned environmentalist John Francis changed the world and inspired many to do the same with some small changes!

human carrying capacity

This article talks about logistic growth of organisms that connect to large scale extinction to another community of organisms. The article uses Easter Island as the main example. The island that is in complete isolation is now inhabited by humans with the help of technology. The population raised from 50 to 10 000 in less than 1300 years. Because of this the balance of the environment was thrown off because of overuse which lead to erosion f the islands fertile lands, limited fresh water and deforestation. With the increasing movement on the island which brought rats and diseases diminished corps and spread small pox throughout the islands. The shortage of food and the epidemic brought the population down. When the balance is thrown off it will out it way out to even eventually. I think this was nature was of fighting back from overuse and the natural way to reduce population if an environment cannot sustain it.

1. Carrying capacity is the maximum size f a population of any species that an environment can sustain given its resources, habitats and space. Another way of describing carrying capacity is that it is the environments highest sustainable population.

tragedy of commons

The article tragedy of commons showed us another way to look at the ways we handle world to help eliminate over consumption, lack of resources, over population. By basically abolishing welfare and letting the world set a biological course for humans. The other point in the article that the commons grounds of the world are not helping anyone but slowly making the world worse. This is because of over-grazing, over fishing and bad management of our natural parks.


2. Examples of resources that have been overused in common by the citizens of society would include, pollution and over consumption of water, our air quality and our fisheries. With the pollution and the over consumption of water we risk either making our water unsafe or no water at all. With all the chemicals from industries, motors and  agriculture we are polluting the air everywhere with no concern for anyone else. With the oceans being a common ground we as humans are over fishing. Fishes are on the rapid decline and some even on the verge of extinction just because its a resources no man controls.