Response; Some Convenient Truths

I agree with Easterbrook that we need to take immediate action to help better our environment. He comments that “a paralyzing negativism dominates global-warming politics”. The media portrays only the dangers of global warming. We continue to hear that if is a devastating problem, yet we rarely hear that we have the power to change it. Recently we have been learning about different ways to be “green” and help prevent more environmental damage, from the media. We still haven’t been told to a sufficient extent that we, as everyday citizens, have the power to reduce global warming and rewind some of its effects. In the past, looming environmental problems frightened the US population, but as soon as there were regulations and laws put into effect, most of those problems began to get less and less severe. We need to stop arguing over global warming and take bigger and better actions against it. The sooner we take control, the sooner the problem and start to be fixed, and the sooner the rest of the world with take part in rescuing our planet.

Response; DNA Test Gives Students Ethnic Shocks

I think DNA tests to help discover your genetic make-up are interesting. They have the power to reveal certain disease that you might be subject too, and allow you to possibly take preventions against them. Although they have a medical use, I do not think they have the power to change how you feel about yourself, or at least they shouldn’t. It can, however, change the way the feel about other people. People, who have certain issues or prejudices toward certain races, sometimes learn that they are in fact a part of that race, sometimes a large part. This knowledge can help them understand that racial prejudices are wrong, and can make them a more understanding rounded person. I think genetic profiling shows how multi cultural all of us really are, and will definitely bring many people together in many ways they didn’t think possible.