Essay 4/ new survey update

I appreciate all of the constructive criticism. It helped me format my questions better and I have created a newer, improved survey. Gathering information would be greatly appreciated so results can be analyzed. Drafting should begin soon after results are in.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2CPWXXJ

Essay 4 Update and Survey

For my survey, I'm conducting questions related to the information manipulation theory and how it covers the truth about the food consumed by college student. The information manipulation theory is the theory that false or untold information can lead to incorrect facts. Question conducted so far include "Are you aware of where most of the food you consume comes from?" and "Does the majority of food you eat lead to a healthy lifestyle" The manipulation of information by companies will hopefully be revealed through this survey.

Link to survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2CPWXXJ

Indigenous Resistance and Rascist Schooling

In the article Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires: Coast Salish cultural survival Michael Marker discusses the integration of Native Indians known as Coast Salish into American and Canadian culture. The Coast Salish Indians lived along the borders of what we know as America and Canada, mostly in the Washington area. After British and Americans began taking their land, the two took a different approach to how they would educate them. The Canadians mixed them in with their citizens making them lose some of their heritage, while the Americans put them in schools alone. Both decisions I believe were based off of racism but in the end I feel like the American Indians have more to be proud about. My personal opinion would have been to leave them as they were before English settlers arrived and let them govern and educate themselves.

Essay 3

People need to consider the problems with producing sustainable foods and realize what they are buying and consuming. Also this will help better the environment if people were not blind to the facts. For example, what The Meatrix dispalyed throughout various clips showed how meats were processed at industrial farms. The way those animals are treated are immoral and the consumption of these animals is not the healthiest thing for people. As far as essay 3 goes, a place has not been chosen to write about. I will hopefully find a place that needs to be revealed to the average buyer and consumer of the products mentioned above. There must be a stand taken against the immoral acts of big businesses and their greed. All sorts have problems have resulted from this and hopefully throughout essay 3 I will be able to effectively explain the problem and educate someone who doesn't know about these things.

Ethical Dilemma: Fracking

People of Pennsylvania protesting the fracking being done in near by areas. "We Can't Drink Money!" is referring to the the natural gases that are contaminating the water supply by fracking. This is an ethical dilemma because natural gases are need at the moment but it's not worth ruining the water of people. It's the people with money who are controlling the fracking vs the people dealing with the problems.

Environmental Ethics

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1637952/?tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract

 

 

McKibben, Lustgarten, Kusnetz all have a common goal; to decrease the amount of environmental damage done by humanity. In the article listed above, JJ Steinburg discusses environmental ethics. Even though it was written over more than a decade ago, the same principles Steinburg preach are vital today. He discusses pesticides and their negative effects on people. His main them is the unethical treatmeant of nature just as the authors discussed in class. They all know that the world could be a better place if people were educated on the matter.

Richard Kahn Response

                Richard Kahn opens up with an engaging introduction by quoting Paulo Freire’s, the founder of Ecopedagogy, statement on ethics. “It is urgent that we assume the duty of fighting for the fundamental ethical principles, like respect for the life of human beings, the life of other animals, the life of birds, the life of rivers and forest.” Kahn then goes into how people of the 21^st century are in a great crisis due to multiple factors. The world today is suffering from its history and the same traditions are continued throughout current times. Recent advancements in industry and technology have left Earth with a ruined atmosphere. The planet will be destroyed if these actions continue to take place.

            Technocapitalism, the emergence of new technology, has become a threat to destroy organisms and their habits Kahn states. In a way this is true, it seems to be all about the money and not the conservation of the environment. In current times it’s easy to tell that technology is the driving force behind the economy, and the lack of care to nature is coming into effect. Humanity, other organisms and their habitats are being destroyed for human production and consumption. People are greedy and self-centered considering that they’re supposed to be sharing the world. For example, Kahn talks about deforestation having gone up in the past few years for the production of paper. Also how global fishing is causing the disappearance of several species of fish. The selfish ways of humans is harming other living organisms in an unethical manor. The soil and oceans are also being polluted and becoming inhabitable. Things such as oil spills have killed numerous amounts of marine animals and people are to blame for that. Land animals are also killed in large quantities just so people can enjoy a burger at a fast food joint. It seems completely wrong for people to kill animals and consume them just for a quick bite to eat. There are foods put on this earth for us to consume; not saying humans are not supposed to eat animals but the manner in which it takes place is immoral.

            Capitalism is one of the main causes of the downfall of the humanities relationship with Earth and its organisms. “New advances in capitalist lifestyle and practice are then directly responsible for grave exacerbations of widespread poverty and suffering, species genocide, and environmental destruction. Kahn seems to exert socialist and liberal emotions through his writings. Social justice is what his argument pushes for. People must be educated on the matter of this ongoing issue. With people blind to the facts, it seems like the solutions will never be found; knowing is half the problem. There’s a section in the writing the shows how uninformed the public is of the surrounding environment.

            The mistreatment of nature is pushed throughout the writing and the point that educating people about ecopedagogy is a necessity, but it can’t be confined just to this. At this point in time, humanity and the ecosystems must work as one and the actions of people must take on an ecopedagogy fashion. Several movements and organizations have been started in hopes of spreading the word of capturing an amazing relationship with Earth and all of its inhabitants in order to save everyone. The viewpoints and solutions mentioned by Kahn are somewhat radical, but in a catastrophic situation like the one at hand, why not take that kind of approach? It’s all in hopes of a better tomorrow, not just for humanity, but all living things and the supplier for all, Earth.