So it has now been stated that old worn out laptop batteries are more cost efficient in 3rd world countries.
GREAT! I love it. We can now cut down on a good portion of e-waste and save money, allowing us to spend it in on more pressing matters, such as helping said 3rd world countries out of their current predicaments. This could do more than just putting money in a better place, this could help create money sources as well. If these parts of countries are now able to join the power grid, that means that we can set up minor industrialized work places, those that can be run on minor electricity. Or now you can increase the efficiency and potential of existing businesses in these areas by using the power and money to improve their products and work rates.
It's astounding what we can recycle and find new ways to reuse, and I think that if we gave the common" person a little more opportunity to help solve things like wasted and how to improve recycling, we would get a lot more done. There are a ton of creative people out in the world, and they're already doing small things in their lives. As a society we could learn a lot from each other and use this new found creative knowledge to help benefit the world considering we're in a pretty bad global state of decay right now. Maybe more of these new creative recycling ideas will pop up and help jump start more people into helping share their ideas/practices that help with situations such as this one.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30345221
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Solar Energy Improves
Solar energy gets more efficient! Hooray! It has recently been improved to 40%, and while I don't know what the original conversion was, I'm extremely excited for this. Even if it's a small step, this means that we are nearing a less polluted existence. Theoretically after maximizing the efficiency of renewable energy conversions we should be able to completely drop off from the market.
Even though that sounds all great and what not, yay no more world pollution, I don't think fossil fuels should completely drop off the face of the earth. I still believe we should have them around but find another use for them, so that we can utilize as much of what's given to us as a species.
I also think we can't just ignore fossil fuels because the world would lose so many jobs and job opportunities from the change that it would do more harm than good. Things like vehicles would have to take time to adapt to the energy changes as well, but overall I think this is a really great improvement and a small step forward in energy.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/solar-energy-world-first-in-australia-20141207-121w8n.html
Even though that sounds all great and what not, yay no more world pollution, I don't think fossil fuels should completely drop off the face of the earth. I still believe we should have them around but find another use for them, so that we can utilize as much of what's given to us as a species.
I also think we can't just ignore fossil fuels because the world would lose so many jobs and job opportunities from the change that it would do more harm than good. Things like vehicles would have to take time to adapt to the energy changes as well, but overall I think this is a really great improvement and a small step forward in energy.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/solar-energy-world-first-in-australia-20141207-121w8n.html
Suicidal Man Jumps at Crowd's Urging
Recently a man has jumped off of a building due to a crowd's chants of "Jump, jump, jump." Absolutely disgusted in every possible way. One should never tell someone to kill themselves, ever. This man was reciting bible verses. If someone is up multiple stories of a building reciting religious things, chances are there is something really bad going on. Normally that doesn't happen, why would you ever tell this person to jump.
Suicide is already a big problem in the world right now, we shouldn't promote it in any sense, joking or not. I know that a lot of people regardless of background or age joke about suicide. It's no laughing matter. In my opinion it should be treated equally as talking about the horrors of human history. WWI and WWII aren't joking matters and are taken very seriously, at least in the United States (although I can't imagine it getting any better in another country). People don't just go around talking about the world wars, and you certainly shouldn't go around just talking about suicide like it's no big deal because it is, regardless of what anyone says. Now do I think that suicide should be banned as a subject of conversation as a whole? absolutely not. Raising awareness about suicide and helping those who are suicidal is just as important as removing it from our everyday language,
This is a massive part of desensitization that happens in our society. We don't put enough emphasis on the prevention of socially unacceptable things - such as the joking of suicide or rape. It's not okay any way that you look at it, but because it was used as a joking matter for so long without any backlash, people have started using it as a common thing, and it's lost its meaning. I believe that as a society we need to put more emphasis on the prevention of things like this in the future. Primarily on the verbal aspect of it. I don't believe that there is a such thing as a violence desensitization unless there is some extreme mental interference.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Suicide-victim-dies-after-crowd-urges-him-to-jump-20141205
Suicide is already a big problem in the world right now, we shouldn't promote it in any sense, joking or not. I know that a lot of people regardless of background or age joke about suicide. It's no laughing matter. In my opinion it should be treated equally as talking about the horrors of human history. WWI and WWII aren't joking matters and are taken very seriously, at least in the United States (although I can't imagine it getting any better in another country). People don't just go around talking about the world wars, and you certainly shouldn't go around just talking about suicide like it's no big deal because it is, regardless of what anyone says. Now do I think that suicide should be banned as a subject of conversation as a whole? absolutely not. Raising awareness about suicide and helping those who are suicidal is just as important as removing it from our everyday language,
This is a massive part of desensitization that happens in our society. We don't put enough emphasis on the prevention of socially unacceptable things - such as the joking of suicide or rape. It's not okay any way that you look at it, but because it was used as a joking matter for so long without any backlash, people have started using it as a common thing, and it's lost its meaning. I believe that as a society we need to put more emphasis on the prevention of things like this in the future. Primarily on the verbal aspect of it. I don't believe that there is a such thing as a violence desensitization unless there is some extreme mental interference.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Suicide-victim-dies-after-crowd-urges-him-to-jump-20141205
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