Plan B 4.0 Ch. 2

"as aquifers are depleted by over pumping and the mountain glaciers that sustain so many of the worlds rivers and irrigation systems melt and disappear." (Plan B 4.0)

If this continues then our water resources will be scarce.  The mountain glaciers are a big part of getting water.  If they melt and disappear then we would have to find another resource that will give us water or we will just be out of luck.  We need aquifers to give us water and purify it so we don't get sick or die of some parasite disease that the water could have been carrying.  Since they are now getting depleted by over pumping this is a concern and should be a priority to fix.  The mountain glaciers also sustain our rivers and if they disappear then there won't be any sustaining of them.

                                              http://imgkid.com/mountain-glacier.shtml

"Worldwide we drink on average close to four liters of water per day, either directly or in coffee, juice, soda, wine, or other beverages." (Plan B 4.0)

This is crazy to me.  I cannot believe that we drink this much water.  I mean it's good for us to be more healthy and live a longer life, but this is affecting our water systems.  This amount of water is used in all these beverages that we consume on a daily basis.  However, I think that a lot of this water is used also in food production.  So on average we are consuming a ton of water.  I don't think a lot of people know this, but should be notified about it since it is a big deal on our irrigation systems.  We are just going to keep growing and growing in numbers and soon our resources that provide water for us won't be there anymore.

                           http://www.cleanwateraction.org/programinitiative/protecting-drinking-water-0


"As water tables fall, well drillers are using modified oil-drilling technology to reach water, going down a half mile or more in some locations." (Plan B 4.0)

Going down a half mile to reach the water that we need to survive is a long way to go.  To have to do this to get water is intense.  This is what it has to come down too today is we have to drill a half a mile down to reach water.  This is telling us that we are destroying our water resources so bad that we have to drill a half a mile down just to get water.  This is probably doing more damage to our world by drilling so much into the soil.  It's sad to say that we have come up with an oil-drilling technology just so we can get water.

                        http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/oil-rigs-drilling-ever-deeper/1098


"While desert expansion and water shortages are now displacing millions of people, rising seas promise to displace millions of people." (Plan B 4.0)

Desert expansion and water shortages is a scary thing since it displaced millions of people already.  Imagine if this continues and we keep ignoring the problem.  Now rising seas are promising to whip out millions more.  These things that are happening are a way of the earth telling us to help clean it up and to change our ways.  We only primarily care about our needs rather than the earth.  We should be putting the two together and protecting both.  Without this earth we cannot live and cleaning up and starting to protect this world can create a better world for everyone.

                         http://blog.geogarage.com/2015/01/us-cities-lag-in-race-against-rising.html

Food Inc

My first "wow" moment was when this video showed how animals get treated so that we can eat.  I even got a little teary eyed watching this and I never want to again.  The way that they just put the little baby chickens on the moving platform and picked them out one by one and smash their little heads to kill them just shocked me.  That is animal cruelty and get's me so mad. It is just so sad to watch animals get treated like that.  I know we as humans need to eat but that is no excuse for how they treat animals today.  Even reinventing the chickens size so that we can have more white meat is just ridiculous.  It's not natural and it is disgusting to me.  I have so much sympathy for these animals because their being tortured and I only wish that these people could be in their places and see what it's like.

I agree with the guy saying that we would want our chicken in a less amount of time rather than a longer period of time.  The process with getting chickens originally took three months and now it takes forty-nine days.  Since they are growing their chickens unnaturally and quicker we get to have more chicken and in a short amount of time.  I agree that I would want chicken sooner than have to wait but since it's unnatural why would anyone want this?  I think it is disgusting how they treat chickens just throwing them around like they are nothing and also growing them the way we do today is just weird to me.

My second "wow" moment is the chicken houses.  It is just depressing and terrible how these chickens can't even stand on their feet because of their rapid growing organs that we made them to have.  They just end up falling over and dying.  A lot of these houses are not open to sunlight so the chickens are just living in the dark their whole short lives.  Nothing is natural anymore it's all just one big factory because businesses like to do whatever to make money.

I disagree with everything in this video.  I got really passionate talking about this video and it is sick how they treat these animals.  It's disgusting, unnatural, cruel, and disappointing.  I don't care if these companies just want to make their money.  They don't deserve anything and should be put out of business.  We should go back to the old days where everything was naturally grown.  These farms aren't farms anymore.  There just a big factory and it's fake food.