Flower Food (Water Duh!)

“In addition, there is a mismatch between where water is located and where people live, a problem that is especially serious in developing countries.” (Robertson, 2014.)

Little boy drinking water from local pond or lake. (http://blogs.ft.com/photo-diary/tag/poverty/page/2/)

Being an individual living in a country that does not need to worry about where their next drink of water is coming from and whether on it will be cleaned or tainted water has its perks. The only problem is that we do not think about other living in developing countries, and all the problems they must face with if their water is clean enough to drink, how do they filter the dirty water to make clean water and numerous other things. Some countries in Africa and some city-states in India have a very high poverty rate in which numerous people go every day without clean water, and risk their health because the only thing they have to drink is dirty water. As a community of people who share the Earth we should find more ways that are efficient to provide water to everyone all over the world.

 

“Humans in the industrialized world use huge quantities of water to support our lifestyle of a meat-rich diet and plentiful consumer goods.” (Robertson, 2014.)

An ecosystem that is surrounded and benefits from its water source. (http://www.wallpaperhd.pk/amazon-rainforest-wallpaper/)

If we continue to use our lands resources such as water the aquifers will continue to deplete causing land to slow sink beneath the ocean as well as harming environments, which are the homes to numerous types of vegetation and animal life. Once all the animals and vegetation start disappearing the cycles of each environment slowly start to disintegrate into nothing. The whole area will slowly start to fall apart causing everything around it; areas that were not even heavily affected by water to slowly fall apart. We need to make sure that our water footprint just like our carbon footprint is not so large that it causes massive changes in the ecosystem, which cause our world to slowly die.

 

“When all the spaces in the lower soil layers are filled with water, the soil is saturated; in this zone of saturation is called groundwater, and the top of this zone is called the water table.” (Robertson, 2014.)

An easy to understand diagram of a water table. (http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthgw.html)

Water tables are important for our aquifers to help make sure that the water in the area is enough to support the ecosystem that it thrives in. Also because we do get our clean drinking water from aquifers all around the world, which can technically be considered as nonrenewable resources, which are sources that can not be replenished. Our water tables depleting would cause the same chain reaction as our aquifers depleting in size and then later disappearing. We should find new and inventive ways to be able produce water from thin air just like how people do when they are stuck in the desert. Overall we need to just make sure we conserve the water in our respective areas better so that we have continuous resources from the Earth to help sustain our future generations.

Flower Child Reacts to the Climate

Ice core drilling (http://research.bpcrc.osu.edu/resources/pfp/ice_cores.php)

                

“Ice cores are proxies that can go back in time nearly a million years, collected by drilling into an ice sheet in Greenland, the Artic, or Antarctic.

When I think of ice cores I think of the cockroach that last through everything. Ice cores are literally pieces of history within itself. If you were able to break open an ice core and study what it looks like inside you can test how different the air quality was back when the dinosaurs roamed. They are like mini time capsules that can tell the pass in a more scientific way and help us figure out how to explain the different changes such as climate, and land that the Earth has gone through. Like the book says the best way to get to ice core is to drill through ice sheets. An ice sheet is just compact snow from numerous snowstorms. With ice cores you would also be able to see the different types of animals that walked the area over the years.

“If unusual changes are detected, we want to know to what to attribute them. We want to know if the changes are anthropogenic, or human-caused.”

Chernobyl and it radiation sign (https://www.thenation.com/article/30-years-after-the-chernobyl-meltdown-why-is-the-ukrainian-government-pushing-nuclear-energy/)

                 

Us humans have taken over the world and molded it into something that we aspire it to be, and because of this we have caused the world to somewhat cry. We can see more of the human impact dating back to the “Iron Age” or the “Industrial Age”. That is when we decided that we should open more factories and have steamboats, which literally blows toxic gas straight into our ozone. Some other human made impacts include Chernobyl, which was a reactor that was built in a small town and exploded. This did not only harm the land around the reactor but also the people within the village it was next to. The radioactive spill can still be seen till this day because of the ancestors of the people who lived in village as well as those who lived in near villages.

“Coral reefs work best for warm tropical water temperatures, while tree rings work best for temperate-region land temperatures.”

Tree clearing (http://www.northerntree.com/commercial-tree-care-services/land-clearing/)

                                 

I liked this quote because it shows how different things are in different ecosystem and how everything has a different piece of history of that area. The number of tree rings a tree has shows its age, so just imagine a tree that is so thick and packed with tree rings, and imagine all of the different things it has seen and gone through in its many years. The only problem with that is the fact that we cut down trees to make room for more buildings. If we were to take the time to study the trees and understand the different conditions they have gone through we could learn from them and hopefully repair the environment.

Flowers are Humans Too

"Meanwhile, human' innate tendency to acquire things has assumed a central position in contemporary culture." (Robertson, 2014)

A collection of lip glosses (not mine). (https://colourpop.com/)

 

I am not going to lie I love clothes, jewelry, and makeup (oh can not forget purses). I have acquired a lot of things over the years. I think this is just part of the piece inside everyone that makes them feel like the one thing the love the most they need to have a lot of. This is like the person who loves lip glosses (me) and has over one hundred in a drawer but would only use the same 25 different colors every 6 months. This may not exactly improve my social standing or anything but it does make me feel more at home and it does help that I am not alone in my slight obsession over things. The sense of wanting different things has helped people decide what they are passionate about and how something that is acquired can turn into something way bigger.

"Bringing together multiple disciplines can sometimes yield insights that were not previously known to either discipline by itself." (Robertson, 2014)

Teaching someone to fish or teaching them help the environment. (http://lawrencehilton.com/fluency-with-lawrence/teaching-someone-how-to-fish-proverbs-in-class)

 

Learning about different things can help people continue to improve in their life. The same can be said about the different ways people learn to control different aspects in their life. When people are able to have more disciplines you are able to not only learn about patience but also thrive in your professional. Not only does your professional life thrive but if you turn that discipline towards saving the universe you could not only help the environment. You can also in turn teach someone else about the different disciplines needed to help them help the environment, because “if you give a man a fish he eats for a day, but teach him to fish and he never goes hungry.” That is the premise of teaching people the discipline of saving the environment and not hurting it.

"Humanity is part of a vast evolving universe." (UNESCO, 1992)

Everything is constantly changing not just the weather. As humans evolve they take along everything with them such as technology as well as popular culture. Humanity does not stand still because if it did we would still be stuck in the Stone Age. As humanity brings everything into the continuous modern age we need to remember to still make sure we still teach and learn about how to conserve energy and to continue to teach sustainability of the environment. This is so that we can continue to live on this Earth and continue to evolve even more so that we can get to the point where we not only be more technologically advanced but also be a place where we do not have to worry so much about the environment and it dying sooner rather than later.

The evolution of the ever present IPhone. (http://phys.org/news/2014-09-chinese-buyers-iphone-global-debut.html)

Flowers in the Biosphere

"Energy flows through systems in one direction while matter cycles around and around." (Robertson 2014).

A flow chart of energy. (http://www.mrgscience.com/ess-topic-23-flows-of-energy-and-matter.html)

As energy goes in a continuous flow, which can be described just like a steady car that is going straight down I-75. Just like energy, the car keeps a steady speed and is uninterrupted until it reaches its destination. Now the total opposite of energy is matter, which is just like a tire on a car, which has a cycle and just goes continuously around and around. The tires carry the car down the rode just like matter carries energy through systems. They work in tandem to get the environment working the way it should so that everything is exactly how it is supposed to be. Each environment has its own energy and different matter sources, to help obtain different results for different environments within every biosphere. Energy and matter go to the smallest organism in a biosphere to the biggest. Even humans have energy and matter that flows through them to make them the complete person they are.

"Biologists currently recognize five kingdoms of living beings: plants, animals, fungi, protists, and bacteria." (Robertson 2014)

A tree of the animal kingdom. (http://biology.tutorvista.com/organism/animal-kingdom-classification.html)

  Every thing on the planet has characteristics that give it a certain place in the world. So if even when someone does not know exactly where they fit they can think of the five kingdoms of livings being and find where they want to be in the this world and how they want to be classified. The biologists knew that things would be in disarray if they did not have any order within the world. They even broke it down even more so that you would know the difference between something that is a cell with a nucleus, to something that is a cell that does not have a nucleus. This helps sell the fact that every organism and everything in the animal kingdom has its own energy and matter that flows through things so that it can be apart of the universe.

"A population is a group of individuals of the same species living in an area. A community is all the populations that live in an area." (Robertson 2014)

A chart of the levels in a biosphere. (http://slideplayer.com/slide/6279017/)

  A population is filled with individuals that have unique attributes that make them completely different. If everyone were the same in a population everyone would be carbon copy of each other, which is very boring. Communities are formed with numerous forms of very different populations so that even the communities are not all the same. If there were no populations or communities in the world the animal kingdom would have no purpose for the world.  Each community has a niche which is where they are able to commune and be able to live in a spot where everyone feels at home.