TB's view on the environment

New England This week, I read t wo articles, that focused on deforestation in New England and in the Amazon rain forest. The main idea of this article called As Forests Decline Globally, New England Is Not Immune, was that we need to start changing things here in New England because our deforestation damage will catch up to us sooner rather than later. The article talks about how there is an increase in carbon dioxide in the air that helps the young trees grow faster. According to Barbara Moran, it's also causing rising temperatures which causes droughts and wilder fires. This will cause us to not gain any more tree growth in New England. Also, warming temps can cause more insect species to move in. We are entering a second wave where or trees will not recover because we are putting business and houses where the trees were. So the trees can’t come back as they did from the 1800s. ( Free-Photos) Am...

  This week, I watched 3 Ted Talks , which were videos that focused on our environmental impact on the oceans. My favorite one and the one I am going to talk about was about plastic in the ocean and how it negatively affects the environment. The main idea of this Ted Talk was that to solve our ocean plastic problem we need to make plastic an article of value.   Plastic Problem      One idea that I found interesting was that it’s cheaper to make new plastic than it is to recycle it. I thought it was interesting because most materials we make are cheaper to recycle than they are to make like metals and such.   ( Tokmakov, Sergei)      It made me wonder why plastic was cheaper to make than to recycle, so I looked up some more information about this idea. On the website MIT School of Engineering , I found more information about why plastic is cheaper to make new than it is to recycle. One piece of information I found was plastic is cheaper to ma...

       This week, I read what you can do to help prevent climate change, according to experts, which is an article that focuses on climate change.        The main idea of this article is that we need to start helping to prevent climate change the best we can.     Environmental Protections        One idea that I found interesting was according to Julia Jacobo, t he Trump Administration, for instance, has rolled back 85 environmental protections since 2017, including several on drilling and emissions.        I thought it was interesting because that means our government is doing the opposite of what it should be doing to prevent climate change. Also that with our current administration our government is not trying its hardest to prevent climate change.                                           ...