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How come people still don't believe that this is a problem that they can help with?
In class today (in french), we read this little article about the looming famines for the world due to overpopulation, stealing crops to make ethanol and biodiesel, inept husbandry, and storm destructions, and we were asked to come up with ideas on how to stave it off, or stave off the fuel crisis.
Some of them were (in english):
limit the number of births worldwide
set gas prices (we talked in american government why this was a bad idea!)
unify the african countries
SUV ban
mine was 'limit consumption of food'. Even today, I tossed away some pizza crusts that had plenty of calories and starches in them. (and I regret it because I'm starving now) Almost every day at the house I toss something like cantaloup hull (fertilizer), rice/pasta (rice, pasta), meat bones (soup stock), plastics (recyclable, made of crude oil), or any chose like that.
It's not a ton, but I am one person out of 350 million fat greedy guzzlin' americans. (we had a nice exposure to our stereotype today, M. Chokri was surprised that we didn't eat hamburgers every day, but also surprised that some of our families had five cars). My 10 grains of rice multiplied by the population of Arkansas is 20 million grains of rice. How many words on freerice.com is that?
There is consumption of everything that is the matter. Wal*Mart puts a ridiculous amount of packaging on products (also other stores. When you buy a USB key, there's easily more plastic on the package than there is making up the thumbdrive)
The printouts we have in class are a huge use of paper. There's about two dozens sheets of A4 lying on the floor right now that I've gotten from class. When are we getting our flexible paper screens ;.; that would be a good use of our packaging plastic!
There's a big cardboard box from last week's pizza that I'm probably just going to toss in the trash because I don't know if my host family is interested in recycling cardboard.
And of course, wastes of gas. My car, which is formidable in terms of mileage in america, is at the low end here in europe. It still compares, but is nothing to brag about. (my car gets about 33mpg or 7.12 L/100KM where m. chokri said his VW ranged from about 5-7 l/100km. btw europeans, that's a really weird way to have a unitxD I don't think physics will let you move a car without using any initial force, but you could concievably roll forever once you got started, so taking the limit of each of the units means mpg is superior notation 8) or something)
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In class today (in french), we read this little article about the looming famines for the world due to overpopulation, stealing crops to make ethanol and biodiesel, inept husbandry, and storm destructions, and we were asked to come up with ideas on how to stave it off, or stave off the fuel crisis.
Some of them were (in english):
limit the number of births worldwide
set gas prices (we talked in american government why this was a bad idea!)
unify the african countries
SUV ban
mine was 'limit consumption of food'. Even today, I tossed away some pizza crusts that had plenty of calories and starches in them. (and I regret it because I'm starving now) Almost every day at the house I toss something like cantaloup hull (fertilizer), rice/pasta (rice, pasta), meat bones (soup stock), plastics (recyclable, made of crude oil), or any chose like that.
It's not a ton, but I am one person out of 350 million fat greedy guzzlin' americans. (we had a nice exposure to our stereotype today, M. Chokri was surprised that we didn't eat hamburgers every day, but also surprised that some of our families had five cars). My 10 grains of rice multiplied by the population of Arkansas is 20 million grains of rice. How many words on freerice.com is that?
There is consumption of everything that is the matter. Wal*Mart puts a ridiculous amount of packaging on products (also other stores. When you buy a USB key, there's easily more plastic on the package than there is making up the thumbdrive)
The printouts we have in class are a huge use of paper. There's about two dozens sheets of A4 lying on the floor right now that I've gotten from class. When are we getting our flexible paper screens ;.; that would be a good use of our packaging plastic!
There's a big cardboard box from last week's pizza that I'm probably just going to toss in the trash because I don't know if my host family is interested in recycling cardboard.
And of course, wastes of gas. My car, which is formidable in terms of mileage in america, is at the low end here in europe. It still compares, but is nothing to brag about. (my car gets about 33mpg or 7.12 L/100KM where m. chokri said his VW ranged from about 5-7 l/100km. btw europeans, that's a really weird way to have a unitxD I don't think physics will let you move a car without using any initial force, but you could concievably roll forever once you got started, so taking the limit of each of the units means mpg is superior notation 8) or something)
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