So how does energy and democracy have to do with deforestation? Well, energy can be defined as multiple things:
1. The strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.
2. A person's physical and mental powers, typically as applied to a particular task or activity.
3. Power derived from the utilization of physical or chemical resources, especially to provide light and heat or to work machines.
In this case we will be using the third definition for the most part.
Energy is an important part in our society. We use it to pretty much to do anything, power our houses, our cars, our phones, pretty much anything you can think of. Without energy we would probably still be cavemen. Just think what it would be like if energy was never invented, where the world would be. It’s crazy to think something that little could mean so much to our world now. Trees were a huge part of energy in the late 1800s. Wood was one of the big sources that powered industries back then. Shortly after people thought that it would be a good idea to start cutting down trees for everything that is when deforestation started going down hill. Probably even before that if we were using wood as energy.
Carbon democracy, is more of the oil and mining fields that have changed throughout the past years. For example we use coal mining for electricity production, factory work, trains, etc. Both of these are examples of sustaining the anthropocene that we talked about last week. Coal mining and oil fields are the new scene of the anthropocene in the modern world that we live in.
If there wasn’t any trees then the CO2 that was in the air would just stay in the air and no oxygen would be produced because the trees cannot convert the CO2 into O2. Trees are sort of an essential thing in our lives at the moment and we need then to breath and survive. We need to start thinking about a solution for the issue of deforestation so that we can all live a longer life and pollution levels will go down and the people after us will enjoy nature and be outdoors more then we are now.
Democracy is a big subject to the world and our own different communities. It’s kind of crazy to think how much of a difference it can make in our lives. It can decide where we go to school, what we learn, what we eat/can eat, what we do with our environment and everything around us. You don’t think about it having such a great impact over everything but it usually does. They make all the rules and laws that we follow so in a way they are in charge of us.
Another topic that got brought up in class was the topic of diversity and why it is so important. Diversity is a great thing sometimes. When you are trying to decide something important and you want opinions on things and advice on what to do, it is good to have some diversity in certain situations. It can call for different ideas and points of views on different situations. Also if you are taking a poll of something and you want different points of views and different solutions or something it would be a good idea to get a little diversity and different options. Life without diversity would be very rough. I feel like we would have problems and fights breaking out all over. That is the upside of having such a great diversity in our world. Although there are fights that break out every once in a while it probably wouldn’t be ask much if we didn’t have diversity. Diversity vs. the trees. With different people and their different opinions on deforestation there could be a great opportunity to help fix the situation.
Democracy, energy, diversity and deforestation can all go together in different ways. Hope you didn’t get too lost in this blog post and hope you learned at least one thing or made you think about something that you don’t really think about all the time. Until next week readers!
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