In the book Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell travels to Chernobyl, Fort McMurray, Port Arthur, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch , The Amazon Rainforest, Guiyu & Linfen, and the Yamuna River, which are some of the world’s most polluted places. Also, the book states that,” today that society is an industrial one, resource-hungry and planet-spanning, growing so inefficiently large, we believe, that it is disrupting its own host.” (Blackwell 61) On a personal level, I believe that the human race is growing so large and fast that we are polluting the ground we walk upon. Humans are industrializing the world. We are building more factories, and most of these factories use smokestacks. These smokestacks thrust smoke into the air furthermore …show more content…
(Blackwell 61) Fort McMurry introduces us to the oil sands, which made Blackwell ask ,”are we raping the planet?” (Blackwell 59) GUESS IT is one of the attractions ay the . GUESS IT introduced the question ,”who is responsible for protecting the environment?” with answer choices, “ a) the government, b) the oil sands company, or c) everyone.” (Blackwell 53) Blackwell already knew the answer without turning the panel to reveal the answer. This question gets Andrew Blackwell thinking about who the Play Lab’s targeted audience was, and if we were,” raping the planet.” Blackwell then explains that ,”Fort McMurray does not emit the same amount of carbon as LA. It emits twice as much,” which gives another explanation of why this reflection was in this part of the book. (Blackwell