Nature's Bounty

So my resource was lumber,and what I have learned about lumber is. First, we almost eradicated our forest in the 1800's. Second, that we moved to coal as our resource of choice because we realized that destroying all of our forests is a bad thing. Third, thing I found was thought it seems like such a basic and primitive resource,we still use it for a lot of things in the modern world. And the last thing is that though lumber is a renewable resource we are very much in danger of running out of it if we don't continue the path that we are on to save our forest.    

Cosmos 8/13

1. Halloween is an ancient holiday that thought spirits haunted the stars
2. some stars are 10 billion years old
3. stars are born in litters
4. Star in the nebula below Orions belt are babies

Planet Earth 7/11

Here we are again

Biotic: Birds, Lemurs, grass,flowers,trees,wolf, caribou,ostriches, gauzzel, lions,elephants,monkeys,piekas.

Abiotic: Sunlight, water, snow, wind, rocks,mountains,dirt,ice

Cosmos 7/13

Three things that I learned in this episode

1. Aman tried to calculate how old the earth by using the bible,with no actual way of knowing how many years had passed with all of the prophets.  
2. the rocks are the birthday candles  of the earth
3. lead will remain for an eternity.  

planet earth 6/11

The drill is back for it last five episodes

Abiotic: sunlight,water,ice,snow, rocks,mountains,wind,

Biotic: Polar bears, fish,penguins,whales, NARWHALS!!!, Walruses, seals, sea birds

Youtuber: Soon we'll cure disease with a cell, not a pill

The whole video is about changing the way we see medicine. Ok so just something you should know before I summarize this video for you, is that medicine ( more actually the way that we cure disease) has always been built on chemistry. In fact, people originally dismissed germs for that reason ( and that by expecting that,it would mean that they were killing the people they meant to save). So this guy seeks to change are understanding of  medicine by showing how you can cure ailments like cancer, not by lock and key but by how nature does it. So what he theorizes is that we could find a way to use cells that help repair our bones when they break, to be able to make something like cartilage for people whose knee cartilage has degenerated. So it is a theory that could cause a second revolution in medicine and that is awesome.

the video: http://www.ted.com/talks/siddhartha_mukherjee_soon_we_ll_cure_diseases_with_a_cell_not_a_pill#t-640633           

Promised Land

This is going to be a stance on fracking. So what the scenario is that,their is a vote this today and everyone has to give a yes or no.So the city has put someone up to the task to find reasons about how fracking is good and how it is bad. And then after that I will be showing you what I would vote.

The Good - http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/05/21/fracking-is-midunderstood-its-the-key-to-energy-self-sufficiency/#e6dec7ec6dea

It can bring economic growth to an area

There have not be any recorded pollution in the area where fracking has occurred

It could lead our nation becoming energy independent

It will provide jobs

The bad & the ugly http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/19/why-is-fracking-bad-google-answer

It could be bad for the climate

It could infect local water with harmful chemicals and radiation

And businesses are corrupt

So after reading these articles and finding these points I vote,Yes. Now I vote yes because in my mind ( from the two articles I read) the positives outweigh ( and possibly cancels-out) all of the negatives. So that is my vote but what is yours when presented with this evidence and trying to take it unbiasily.
 Also watch the movie Promised Land which deals with the issue of fracking ( the move is R rated but still a good watch).