Flowers Need Healthy Food

“Human health can also be impacted by too much food or food of the wrong kind, resulting in obesity and increased risk of disease.” (Robertson, 2014.)

McDonald's first menu.  (http://flashbak.com/you-deserve-a-break-today-1960s-1980s-mcdonalds-history-in-advertising-29820/)

Every time I hear something like that it makes me think of how back in the early 1900s back when McDonalds, Burger King, and my favorite Wendy’s was first established (1940,1954, 1964). I love how I hear how older people talk about how “back in their day” they only had small and large and the large was the size the medium nowadays or how they say the small drinks are their larges. All in all the fast food restaurants are not what they use to be with portion sizes getting bigger as we go on through out the ages which is calling our health as a whole society to fail. Either we need to find figure out a way to change how we eat completely or make it less desirable to each such things or a regular basis.

The part that shocked me was the part when they pointed out how the 100s of Mexican farmers were displaced because they found a cheaper way to farm corn. (Food Inc., 2008.)

Mexican corn farmers on protesting because they were let go.  (https://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4448)

The fact that people were put out of a job just because they found a cheaper way of producing corn surprised me. It also confused me because I hear so much talk about how we do not have enough jobs in America for all the people that live. So for them to take away jobs from people who already have some to make hormone grown vegetables that are not all that good.  If we were to make sure our food stays safe and organic we could hire more people for the job and it would be a win-win for all. Like Joel Salatin said “ We are successful of hitting the bull’s eye on the wrong target.” Which I took to mean we are worried about the wrong things like the price of much we are going to have to pay to make the for rather than if it good or not.

The part that shocked me was the part when farmers explained how the numbers of their profession dwindled through out the years. (Food Inc., 2008.)

A seed cleaner machine.  (http://www.benchindustries.com/mobile-grain-seed-cleaners/)

A machine took out the job of seed cleaner in more than one state. Moe Parr explains that there are only six seed cleaners left in the state of Indiana they used to have three in every county maybe more. Machines that have been around for a few centuries and did not originally plan on taking over someone’s job are being improved and then let loose into the world to slowly displace men. As well as put them on the street without anything to fall back on or any job offers that would be available to them because so many jobs are given to machines these days. Hopefully this does not cost us the safety of how healthy our food is supposed to be.

Flowers Don't Like Pollutants

A diagram of an aquifer. (http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthgwaquifer.html)

The first step in the twelve step process. (http://www.clipartkid.com/green-recycling-bin-cliparts/)

An example of a petroleum plant.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_refinery)

“Once water in an underground aquifer is polluted it is very difficult to decontaminate.” (Robertson, 2014.)

Aquifers is where we get our water from. If we are unable to make sure that our quivers are clean we slowly start to loose our fresh water. Once our fresh water slowly starts to deplete we start to loose numerous other systems that thrive on water such as rain forests. Our aquifers are all over the world and are very beneficial to not only the most water based systems, but also even the most driest systems. Also it is very hard to clean an under ground aquifer because once it reaches the surface all of the surface water bacteria can grow into something else because of the sunlight which can be more powerful. Since aquifers are underneath porous soil it is very easy for different oils or containments slip down into the aquifer water.

“Pollution remediation means stopping and reversing damage to environmental systems caused by pollution.” (Robertson, 2014.)

Once we start to stop polluting the air and waters of different systems we can then reverse all the damage we have so far on this world. I like to think to think that the world can go through basically “Pollution Rehab”. We can make a twelve step process, starting with making sure we actually use the recycle bins around campuses and not just throw or trash in the big trash can. Once we start that we are one our way to a better world because we are only on our way up from there. Then we can start making protective plans for our most endangered species as well as areas such as the tropical rainforest, and animals such as white-tailed deer. Once we complete the world’s twelve step process we will see a more beautiful as well as sustainable world.

“Sites contaminated with petroleum and other hydrocarbons are generally rich in carbon and poor in nitrogen and phosphorus.” (Robertson, 2014.)

Petroleum plant sites are also hard to keep clean because of the different nutrients that are already in the petroleum and what is not around present. One of the important nutrients needed to “eat” organic pollutants is phosphorus and phosphorus is not commonly found in around petroleum plant sites. Another environmentally safe nutrient that can absorb organic pollutants is nitrogen. These two nutrients can be added to petroleum to make it more environmentally safe. This can also be done to other chemical spills to easily clean the mess up and make the spill less toxic within the situation. This type of organic clean up is called biostimulation. Scientist can also do this along the shores to kill the different organic pollutants in the water around the world.

Flower Habitats

 

“The rate of new species development typically equals or exceeds the background rate of extinction, and biodiversity increases over time.” (Robertson, 2014.)

A tasmanian tigers became extinct in the 30s.(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/zoologists-on-the-hunt-for-tasmanian-tiger-declare-no-doubt-species-still-alive)

As the world goes on numerous things have changed through history. The only constant thing that has continued to happen is when new species outgrow older species causing them to become extinct. I like to think of this as the natural order of things as one thing goes something else that is somewhat better or different comes in and takes its place. The idea of this can compared to how the new piece of technology is introduced each year and the old technology is then thrown out the window and is forgotten. If this did not happen it would be like the ecosystem all together is on a pause causing everything to be stagnant and not be able to grow. If things are not able to grow then everything stays the same, which is not good because we need change in our lives.

 

“Tropical rainforests are considered biodiversity hotspots, habitats that constitute the richest and most threatened reservoirs of species in the world.” (Robertson, 2014.)

A tropical rainforest. (https://www.reference.com/science/tropical-rainforest-landforms-9d3890ce4c8f328c)

My favorite ecosystem may have to definitely be the tropical rainforests. I love how beautiful they are and how many beautiful organisms live in them from the trees to the animals that live in the trees and cohabitate with the plants on the ground. The only problem with the tropical rainforest is that they are plentiful in nutrients and different resources that we continuously take from it. If we keep taking from it there will not be anything left for us to admire and love about the rainforest, or even a rainforest left to visit. A lot of the species in the tropical rainforest are endangered which means they are slowly becoming extinct. Once species become extinct without a species to take their place that does their job it causes that job to go undone and may cause problems in the ecosystem. 

 

“Conservation is one of the three approaches to maintaining the health of the natural world, together with restoration and reconciliation.” (Robertson, 2014.)

An example of a garbage composter. (http://www.gardeners.com/buy/deluxe-pyramid-composter/38-682.html)

 As we continue to live in a world that is slowly dying we need to conserve the little energy and resources we have left so that we can sustain the Earth as long as possible. We are even able to use the different technologies of the world and use it to our advantage and restore the different areas of the world. Restoration and reconciliation are another part of the maintaining the health of the world. I think if everyone makes sure that they are making the effort to change different things in their life like maybe start composting trash or saving rainwater to drink and stop using plastic water bottles, or even doing something as simple as using reusable bags instead of plastic bags at the grocery store it would help the world even a little.