Earth Day

Movie Summary - 

"A Fierce Green Fire" is a movie about the huge environmental movement during the 20th century. During this time people started realizing the impact of what they were doing had on the earth and  realized they needed to change what they were doing. The movie gets an in depth looks at activism, and people doing everything in their power to make progress towards a happier and healthier world. The movie looks at many previously unknown environmental hazards, like the Love Canal, and how many people worked together in order to save their lives. "Watch Film: A Fierce Green Fire." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.

Pollution -

A study done in Mongolia found a large relation of the use of coal- burning stoves, and chance of a miscarriage. This data, brings up the idea that coal is one of the many things that is polluting our air system, and leading to major problems like miscarriages.  Researchers say that the evidence is "alarmingly strong," that coal fumes are bad to be inhaling while pregnant, so it makes you wonder what other impacts coal fumes have on people. If humans as a whole can try to prevent pollution the world would become a much better place, causing less diseases and other impacts on people.

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. "Pollutants from coal-burning stoves strongly associated with miscarriages in Mongolia." SienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 April 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140423142830.htm>.

How what we eat effects the world around us - 

This article discusses a new report about how harmful mass consumption of dairy and meet is. Those two food categories are staples in many peoples diets, which is not very good. It takes so much energy, especially nitrogen, to produce that food and get it on your dinner table, that nitrogen pollutants are becoming a bigger and bigger deal. Another problem with the massive dairy and meet consummation, is that the animals who provide the food for us, take up lots of space. There will be a point when our society runs out of farmland, and our food production will reach a plateau. I guess we will cross this bridge when we come to it.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. "Nitrogen pollution, climate and land use: Why what we eat matters." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 April 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140425093605.htm>.

My Opinion - 

If we want to change any of theses things it will mostly depend on what we do in our everyday life. If it is either not littering that one piece of trash or not eating that one meal that would be harmful. For something to happen we need to take action as a whole, doing one small thing at a time as a community.