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If your research project has gone well, you’ve found a lot of interesting and (I hope) reliable information about the environmental issue you chose to explore. But so what? Who cares?
Well, if it is true (as some ecologists claim) that everything (and everyone) on this planet is interconnected, then perhaps there are reasons for us all to care. Let’s put the connection hypothesis to the test. Write a two-page reflection in which you find the connections between the environmental issue you’ve been researching and your own life. How does your life and activities affect the issue you’ve been reading about? How do the ramifications of the issue you’ve been reading about affect your life—or how might they affect your life in the future?

The subject of wind energy has made me think quite a lot about how important it is to change things. People as a whole can change and adapt, but what about the system that supplies us and the machines that we have become so attached to? Doing this research has made me realize that we need to tear down the foundation of our society and rebuild it from there to get real change; we need to change the industries and the suppliers of energy, because we as people can change like the weather, but the paved ground that we stand on will not change unless we start to dig. In other words, the squirrel can live without the nuts but cannot live without the tree that provides them. American society is founded on the principles of individual power and ability, but this is often perverted by the industry that has supplied all of the things we need to succeed. With no oil to run our schools, our plows, our factories, our hospitals or our homes then we won’t have the ability to do what America was founded for. The system that used to be in place to allow success is not sustainable by combustible sources of energy. Only renewable sources of energy can be seen to truly allow an economy that is founded on unlimited supply to prosper.
This project has connected me to nature through odd means. After seeing how content people are with a way of living that is completely unsustainable, I felt a little less human. After seeing how little people care about the effects of what they take, I feel a little less human. After listening to people reject the ideas that could potentially halt the progress of global warming, I feel a little less human. I cannot begin to see why Not in My Back Yard is allowed to protest whatever they don’t want to see regardless of fact. After seeing what we could be doing for sustainable living, the continuation of the greed and laziness of humans is just so aggravating. All of the scholarly articles that I searched said the same thing, that wind energy would be a good thing for society. But when ballot proposals are presented we vote no to the thing because we don’t understand it. It just shows how little our society cares about factuality and how important keeping things the same is.







I learned from my lovely little public school that economics is about giving something in return for something else. The things involved are the customer, the seller, the source of income and the capital being sold. What makes economics flawed is that the customer has an unquenchable demand and the supplier will always have a proportional supply, if the basic principles of economics are applied. But the biggest flaw is that we don’t have an unlimited supply! We can’t take and sell everything. Instead, the give and take must be regulated; we saw this in the indigenous societies of the Native Americans. Instead of taking all, they understood the repercussions of their actions and how much could be taken.