Last Exploration

In response to "The Idea of a Local Economy" all of what he talks about rings true with me. The fact that much of our labor is either outsourced or done by machines has drastically changed how our economy works. It used to be that teenagers and young adults could go get a factory job where they'd be assembling some sort of machine or they are at a mill, but now many of the jobs are done by machines who can do the work faster and more precise. Many of the human jobs that are left are either quality control or supervising positions. "In this way it is possible to maintain a "pool" of people who are in the threatening position of being mere consumers,"  and it causes people to want to work for a lower wage because if they don't they are without a job. The localization of economy is one of the only plausible ways to remedy this. Having communities be self sufficient causes labor jobs to pay appropriately for the goods so the economy can regulate itself.

In response to Al Gore's Nobel Prize speech, "A Planetary Emergency" the point he makes was, and still is, true. Very little care, previously, was put into preserving the natural environment and because of such our planet took the raw end of the deal. The point he makes of if let unchecked our planet would not necessarily die, but cause it to become much more harsh towards life.'Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent "carbon summer."' It shows how our problems are ignored until the close to the point of no return. Now though many companies are going green because so many people have taken note of the environment and because of such the companies want to be view in a "good" light.