For my sustainability pact, I have decided to calculate how much I have recycled (by weight and sum of product items). I can use the internet and/or a scale to help with the calculations. I hope to find that I have recycled more items than I normally would had I not made an effort to change.
The Value of Nothing:
A sentence that caught my attention- They turned to the only thing they had left, they sold their labor.
A question I have is why Pakistan allows foreign trawlers to fish their shores if it is killing their people and communities, despite the economy boost?
I was upset by the fact that the article said all people are rapacious and cannot control themselves. Definitely untrue.
I realized as I read the article that learning about the commons and how people treat one another really upsets me. BUT also how scientists and other communities are trying to blame other people or communities for the downfall of things such as fishing. If people have been fishing for AGES why is it all falling apart now? It can't just be due to the people...who have inhabited the planet ...for a very very long time.
Recovering the Commons
A sentence that caught my attention was "
"Whenever the bond that binds the living creature to his environment is broken, there is nothing that holds together the various factors and phases of the self "
A question I have is why are people so confused on how to deal with the commons. Could a set of laws not be laid down to further protect the common area?
I was interested in the approach this article took compared to the previous article. A lot of referencing was used, possibly to the detriment of the article.
Again, I felt upset about how people are treating their environment when I read the information provided by this article.
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