Biosphere

Self-Realization: It is central to Naess’ Deep Ecology. Naess means by Self-Realization that one has to realize his/her sense of self beyond the narrow ego to identify with all living beings. It is the spiritual realization of the self as the part of human and nonhuman worlds. One has to broaden and deepen their thoughts to realize what they are actually. We have to realize ‘self’ (ego) in ‘Self’ (soul). Naess is quite influenced by Gandhiji when Gandhiji described his ultimate goal in a way…

Is technology truly helpful? There is technology all around us, and we use it in our every day lives. Things such as: cars, computers, phones, even lights are considered technology, but is technology truly helpful? This is a question that will vary from person to person. Truly technology is for the better of mankind it was never intended to make peoples lives worse. It is not that it makes peoples life physically worse it is that it makes them morally worse such as it takes away from peoples…

Article Overview: In the peer review article, Neurodevelopment Disorders and Prenatal Residential Proximity to Agricultural Pesticides: The CHARGE Study, which was published in the Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives published in 2004, examined the environmental health issue of pesticide exposure and the related health outcome of neurodevelopmental disorders developing in the children of women who lived in proximity to commercial pesticide usage in an agricultural setting during…

EARTH, our beautiful world that supports US and other life form. That our god/’s, or whatever you as the reader believe in, created such beauty. But that beauty will come to a terminus, and not in the next 1 million years, 1 hundred thousand years and not even the next 1 thousand years. Earth will come to its final point in the next 1 hundred years because of global warming. Global Warming (greenhouse effect) is an official problem(even though our president said “It's a hoax created by the…

The biosphere will either collapse or it will adapt. To adapt would mean great change. It would mean the end of many living things. Perhaps the human race.” Now Storm found himself giggling. This surreal man and the fantastic stories he told overloaded even his…

As the sun rose on the horizon over the East River, a young man named Rex woke in his apartment. The temperature outside was thirty-four degrees Fahrenheit, typical December weather. His morning routine was the same as any other three-hundred-year-old’s. A quick health scan by his M2-D2, a maid robot revealed that his health was optimal. He ate his breakfast, condensed into the size of a pill, slipped on his exoskeleton and rushed out of his apartment. He was late for work at Galactica, an…

Imagine that you have just become the ruler of a small country, a country so small that it only has a total population of four people, yourself inclusive. In this country your main concern is feeding all of your citizens. Everyone requires 3 meals a day and it is your job to provide them with the resources they need in order to get those meals. The resources for one meal costs three dollars a piece, but you are told that for twice as much the provider will cut the cost down by 10 percent for…

Many might not acknowledge how much of an impact food has made in shaping the society in which we live. Another unknown detail is that the use of farming is very recent to our knowledge. Dating to about 11,000 years ago, farming has played a key role in the evolution of mankind. About 11,000 years ago humans started to cultivate food intentionally. This process of cultivating food is known as “farming” and it started taking hold in the Near Eastern part of the world at about 8,500 B.C.…

Samantha Godbold 02/27/2016 Human Overpopulation Over the course of our lives, we are taught that human overpopulation refers to the number of how many people live on this planet and that it is the reason why Earth is not going to be able to sustain us for much longer. Many people believe, however, that the population of the human race isn’t the reason for Earth’s decline in resources. It is, in fact, us. We, as a species, are solely responsible for Earth’s sudden decline in…

I will be taking my family (mother, father, and brother) to Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. We went one year when I was 4, but I don’t remember anything. This will be a nice chance for our family to catch up and spend some time together before I go off to college. We will drive there using I-30 and I-40, stopping overnight in Memphis, Tennessee. It is a 755-mile journey and since we will be driving a Prius, we can count on 50 mpg on the highways. The national average gas price…