RE: First Blog Question

1) Our attitude towards violence should be modified. Today the average citizen has seen hours of violence on television by the time they reach adulthood. Compare that to what life was like a few decades ago when most people don't experience that amount of violence throughout their entire life. Perhaps our increasing exposure towards violence is responsible for the growing rate of conflict in the world (most notably the United States). We must also modify the way we treat certain commodities such as water. We treat water as if it is never ending and we pollute and waste it. But in the near future it may become a scarce commodity and we may experience serious shortages even in the developed world.

2) In a decade the youth today will be responsible for the world. If the lessons they learn now will affect how they run the world tomorrow then we must ensure that they learn the right ones. If we teach them the same lessons we learned then when they grow up they may find themselves with out of date information and advice that no longer applies. For example with the advent of global warming and the dwindling supplies of natural resources the behavior we exhibited in the past will only accelerate the speed at which our civilization is drawing to a close. Some may think that we can easily fix these problems and continue acting the way we did before but it's not as simple as it seems. To sum up the problem I will provide the following example. To increase our energy supply we must develop more sources of renewable energy. But to develop those sources will require the input of vast amounts of natural resources. To meet the demand we extract more resources but this in turn requires more energy creating a vicious cycle. Thus we must teach our youth different lessons such as conserving energy and recycling.

P.S. I like a bit of violence otherwise life is boring =)