2014년 8월 28일 목요일

Day 2 - The Lorax

1. The Lorax is the voice of nature. His role is to speak for the organisms in the community harmed by industrialization. 

2. Both Once-ler's way of business and Roosevelt and Pinchot's utilitarian conservatism favor mankind. Though both prioritize the good of men, Once-ler is insensitive to the well-being of nature, as he ruthlessly takes advantage of all available resources, while Roosevelt and Pinchot more or less compromise the good of all. However, neither ideas are sensitive to nature. 

3. The Lorax as similar views as those of Muir. Their views are controversial today because the environment continues to be industrialized more than ever. Thus, the belief of prioritizing good of mankind is noticeably more popular than biocentric preservation.

4. The production of thneed resulted in various toxins such as carbon dioxide from factory smoke and waste in the ponds.

5. The production of thneed can contribute to the increase in global temperature, increase in global level of carbon dioxide, and decrease in biodiversity.

6. Energy consumption and loss of biodiversity together can worsen their respective effects by majorly disturbing the food web, which is based on the flow of energy from an organism to another. The food web obviously portrays the big picture of a particular habitat.

7. In a developing country, thneed production would be different from that in a developed one, in terms of production level. The technology would be less developed, so production level would not be as high. However, raw materials may be more prevalent. Additionally, workers would be under worse conditions.

8. "Unless" refers to the fact that the environment will continue to suffer unless people act differently. An average citizen can make a difference in the environment by simply choosing to recycle, for example. The word "unless" recognizes that every little action is necessary in order to better the environment in which we live today.

9. Having properly defined property rights means that our surroundings, or properties, are under the names of specific individuals, thus preventing people from altering too much of an area. This would help solve the problem by keeping the changes made to our habitats under control.

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