FINALS!

Finals are going to be the death of me. Actually this blog kind of helps me out..its kind of relaxing to come on here and just type about stuff i feel strongly about. I have three finals next week..I'm not 100% ready for any of them...its a little stressful to say the least. Next year i will know not to procrastinate..but you live and you learn.

Bad Idea

There are so many problems in our world today. I think that the drilling in ANWR is definitely one of them and I am sure that someone that is reading this agrees with me. Although this drilling has not actually happened, it definitely something that is talked about a lot in the news and in politics. Drilling here could really harm the environment, as a stated in previous posts. Even if we did drill, there would only be MAYBE a years worth of oil present. Drilling could also harm many animals and peoples homes, if you did not already know that by now..

The Electric Car

So the partial solution to this huge problem is using electric cars. Granted this will not solve this entire problem, it could help. By driving electric cars, you do not need to use any source of fuel which means we would not need to drill for oil, for the use in cars anyway. Using electric cars wouldn't only help the problems about drilling in ANWR. It would be so much better on the environment. We may not all care so much about ANWR but we sure as hell should care about the environment. After all, it is helping us live and breathe...

History Repeats Itself

So this is not really the top on my priority list on this beautiful weekend but it has to get done. I have heard recently about oil spills that have happened in the gulf of Mexico. This oil spill has been compared to the Exxon Valdez that happened in the Prince William Sound in Alaska. This has pretty much wrecked the tourist and seafood industries in Mexico. The beautiful wildlife is also greatly threatened here. When the Exxon Valdez hit Alaska 21 years ago, it was devastating. This area of Alaska still isn't fully recovered. They are predicting the area when the oil spill happened in Mexico still wont be recovered in 100 years! President Obama will be visiting there soon. Hopefully this will change many peoples minds about drilling in Alaska. This same thing could and probably would happen there is there was drilling.

Not the first time!

This is not the first time that the environment has been sacrificed for wealth. Think about the rain forest for a second... The rain forest has been destroyed due to logging, farming, colonization, and more! We all know that this is now a HUGE problem and now we are trying to fix it. I know that everyone has seen ads and commercials about saving the rain forest right? Why would we want to cause the same problem in ANWR? Lets just save ourselves the trouble of trying to go back and fix our mistakes and just not even do it in the first place!

No Drilling!

So we all now know how beautiful ANWR is but you may not know that the ecosystem is very fragile there. ANWR is extremely long and skinny and this gives animals that live there not very many alternate places to live. Also, The climate is very harsh and if we messed something up with the animals there, the climate would give them virtually no time to recover. And wait a second.. aren't we trying to become more environmentally friendly anyway?Why not start here? We don't want to lose sight of this important thing we are trying to achieve here. ANWR is "untouched" so lets keep it that way!

People in ANWR

Like a said a couple of days ago, there are also people in ANWR. I am sure a lot of people think ANWR is only inhabited by animals, i did when i first heard about this issue, but there is not. the two main groups of people are the Inupiat Eskimos and the Gwich'in Indians. The Indians live in 15 different villages that span from ANWR all the way to Canada. they depend on the Caribou that come to ANWR to breed, without these caribou, the Indians would be in trouble because they are very traditional people who would not want to change their ways. The Eskimos hunt the whale, oxen, and other animals that could relocate it there was drilling here. Both of these groups of people have lived here for many many years and we would not want to force them to change their ways just to get MAYBE a years worth of oil. So for those of you who do not care that much about hurting the animals, this could be hurting people too!