Hot Flat and Crowded

Hot flat and crowded are the words used to describe our earth today. Reading this chapter really opened my eyes to the things you usually don’t think about. Do you really think about how many people are in the world or why it so hot outside or why the world is “flat”? These questions don’t cross my mind on a regular base but they should. Reading this has really taught me something about our earth.  Hot, everyone complains how hot it is. But do we ever ask ourselves why it is so hot?  The main reasons to why our core temperature is on a raise are due to greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide and methane. These two greenhouse gasses do the most damage they are released by burning fossil fuels, burning trees and even cow belching. Would you have ever though cow belching would be bad for the atmosphere? But sure enough it is. “Cattle belching can be worse than a highway full of hummers”. The reason why cattle gasses is are high methane. Even the little bit of things end up adding up and causing a big effect on the earth’s temperature. Don’t get me wrong green house gasses are good but too much of them are when they start causing problems and that’s where we are at. When reading this I would have not learned any of this. Looking back and seeing that our core temperature has on average warmed .8 degrees Celsius is a really bad thing. Think about it when the temperature raises a lot of bad things happen. Ice melts, crops don’t grow and it is horrible to be outside in. I really see now how using my car instead of bike can really make a difference. If we all do our part it could really help our environment, our atmosphere and our future. The next half of this that I found interesting was the crowded part. I mean when am on the highway trying to get to school or work I think that’s crowded. But I have never actually thought how crowded our earth really is. As of right now there are 6.7 billion people on the world. That is a lot of people. Think about you waiting in line to eat at a restraunt and then seeing 6.7 billion people in front of you. You would feel like a needle in a hay pin. That’s how we all feel now but just don’t know it. The world is growing and things are just getting more and more crowded. They have averaged that the world will grow 2.5 billion people within the next 43 years. THAT IS INSANE!!!!  If none of us know what we are doing and we keep doing what we are doing to the environment we will run this planet into the ground. We are already doing serious damage to the universe imagine not teaching the 2.5 billion people that will be born in the next 43 years how to reuse, reduce, recycle or teach them all that we know now. With our planet getting bigger we need to teach everyone what we are doing to our atmosphere so we can put a stop to it and contain what has already happen. The last aspect was flat. When I think of flat I think there is no mountains, no hills just flat. But that is not what the author was saying. The author pertains “flat” as everyone becoming the same person. Not like clones but we are all technological and that we need to wind off of that. For the fact that we use fossil fuel to ruin America we need to stop that and become dependent on something else. The author says that we are all going into the Energy Climate Era and that we need energy to run anything. Well the energy that we need is coming from things that will hurt us. The fossil fuel that gets burned like I said before gets used by methane and carbon dioxide gets released into the air and hurts us in the atmosphere. Being flat is not a good thing neither is crowded or hot. If this has taught me anything it has taught me that we need to become a lot more cautious of what we are doing and really see what we are doing to this planet. Thinking about what I do I feel ashamed because I contribute to this hot, flat and crowded planet.  I use my car when I could walk or ride a bike. I could use a library computer instead of my own and when I have children if I don’t teach them everything I know I will just be another statics. I have really realized that the world is hurting and we are to blame for it.