Posts by Patrick

 I have been researching an environmentally sustainable economy. The most interesting thing that I have found is that it is an inevitability of sorts and that it has already started to happen. We are growing tremendously in population size, and if we are able to sustain this size we must manage the environment with the economy. We must live in harmony with the environment and not try to bend it to our will. The next thing being that there are already signs of this thing happening. Buisnesses have started to go green. And governments and power companies are offering incentives for companies to become sustainable. This is hopefully a trickle towards the coming torrent that will end in a sustainable economy.

I found a very good article useing the resarch database SIRS. It is called Crossing the Threshold by Lester R. Brown. The author is very well versed in this area, and has written other article on the economy and enviroment. He has also been published elsewhere in other magazines. The magazine that this particular article is taken from, World Watch, is a peer reviewed and reputable magazine. So this seems like a realible article after analyzing where it comes from and who wrote.

The Stanger by Alber Camus is an amazing book. From the moment i started reading it  I was unable to put it down until i finished it. I was able to get so enthrolled in this book that i read it in a few sittings. I was surprised at how short this book is, considereing that he is conveying a whole person and the complexities of life. The first thing that amazed me where how the chapters were written. Each chapter is like a short story and there is a thread of similarity that combines them all together. The ending of each chapter is amazing and I am just blown away by his writing style. Lastly the ideas in this book are mind boggeling. What matters in life? What is life? How do you deal with the absurdness and unfairness of it all? Philosophical questions like this are laced throught out the novel. This was an amazing book, and my first impressiosn of it turned out to be correct.

Politicans trying to get you to vote for them is no different than companies selling their products. Both of them try to comvince you that their product is superior. Many ways in which they do this is misleading. Politicans are notorice in decieving voters, and its not just one side doing this. An example of this is a video against Gary Herbert from the offical Peter Corron campain channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqOmjRcxRUo

This ad is ridiculous in what it does. It makes it seem to the viewer that Herbert is responsible for the jobloss, recession in the economy, and the school's budget defeciet. It sites no policies of Herbert with respect to any of these issues. It shows only quotes of articles, and doesnt show you the whole picture. All this ad is trying to do is associate negative feelings with Herbert.