Tenth Blog
As Al Gore once referenced: "Junkies find veins in their toes when the ones in their arms and legs collapse, developing tar sands and coal shale is the equivalent." I thought this quote was a good metaphor for how oil companies continue to exploit the earths oil. Humans seem dedicated to sucking up all of Earths oil and burning it into the atmosphere as fast as possible. The Earth is not what is vulnerable here, what is however is Earths atmosphere. A layer of paint on a basketball is about the same thickness as the atmosphere is on the Earth. That is how thin our atmosphere is and without an
atmosphere so much of the life on Earth would not be able to exist.
There is a unanimous agreement among the scientific community that our polar caps are shrinking at a rate never seen before and that our global temperature is rising. Scientists are saying if these trends don't change soon irreversible damage could be done. We have the capability to make great changes toward providing a more sustainable source of energy. Solar panels have been popping up more in areas that catch a lot of sunlight. There are no real disadvantages to becoming more solar energy dependent. Whenever you have an oil spill it is a catastrophe, but when there is a solar energy spill all you have is a sunny day.
