The Human Penchant For Opinionated Judgement

Take a moment to imagine the realization that a young boy came to when two of his favorite movies had a large plotline that was somewhat based on the problems of trash. Wall-E, the famous Pixar movie, was based on a small robot that was left behind on Earth’s surface alone. His job was to clean the garbage that the human population left behind when they went into space to escape their problems. Toy Story 3, another Pixar movie, contained a scene with garbage that was vital to the plot, in which the characters are rescued from a trash furnace that was consuming literally tons of trash a minute. These two movies tried to make the American population aware of the ever growing trash situation, however, Americans quickly forgot about the Earth shattering situation that they are causing. The solution to the world’s trash problem is easy; people need to be educated on the problems of trash and given an easy way to fix it. People should be required to visit a landfill, educated on the severity of the trash problem, and should be rewarded for changing their habits to improve the problem.

Heather Roger claims our current garbage disposal methods are short term and etiquette. Rogers’s position is clear that we need to minimize the use of landfills and create better means to discard trash. In supporting Rogers’s environment views I think that we need to create a more economic and environmental friendly garbage disposal system. Heather Rogers and Lars Eighner both acknowledge the issue with society’s throwaway mentality. Eighner proves that we throw away perfectly working stuff, having survived off others discarded materials. Eighner argues against excessive waste we create but does not have any prospected solutions. Whereas Rogers acknowledges the obvious need to minimize our consumption of waste but argues the need

Although space junk may seem trivial,it is in fact crucial in terms of today's concern over everyday life. Apparently Nasa has just been throwing it out the window into our atmosphere, which is causing a gigantic problem. Some experts say there are just some things like satellites they cannot take back to earth. They say that they would only do it in in rare cases. If they take the things up there how come they can't take back it down to earth. They are trying to find a way to bring the trash back.

“Sputnik marked the beginning of the "space race," a period of nearly twenty years during which fierce US and Soviet competition spurred both countries to make rapid progress in aeronautic engineering,” (Lee). This period of time birthed a new program from the American government, called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA. NASA has been building rockets, training astronauts, and studying space for the benefit of science, the government, and the people of America since 1958. Unfortunately, many people don't realize how important NASA is, and there have been efforts made to stop the government from funding NASA. This program is essential for increasing knowledge of outer space, protecting planet Earth, and creating

Robert Swan once said "The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." People always think "I'll do that later." Men and Women alike refuse to help the planet that so cares for humanity's every need. People litter and trash the Earth that God so generously gave the human race and all other living things. This ends now thanks to Litter Bonnie®! With both a recycling and trash bin, this remote-controlled robot helps the earth and average, lazy people! With rugged tires that work on all terrain, this little bot cleans the ground indoors and outdoors in the blink of an eye! Litter Bonnie® is should be the best option for a clean, healthy earth. This RedBot may be tiny, but this bucket-backed, litter-picking-up, little bot has a huge mission.

1) Are you aware of the amount of waste you create each day? I do not believe anyone is completely aware of the amount of waste they generate on a daily basis. It is such a natural action – throw something in the trash – that it is automatic and done without much or any consideration as to where it goes, where it came from, or where will it ultimately go or become. I do recycle and compost when possible, but that too becomes a process that sometime appears moot because products are being made from materials that do not qualify or require special centers for recycling.1 We have become a “use it and throw it away” society.

Today, speeding past our Earth ten times faster than a bullet (tweentribune), are millions of pieces of space junk ranging in size from flecks of paint to entire Satellites (NASA). To most people this does not sound like much of a problem, but even a fleck of paint moving 17,500 miles per hour or more can cause significant damage to spacecraft and space walkers alike. As more collisions take place and as new items enter the atmosphere the statistical probability of a collision will increase. Eventually, the probability of a collision will become so high that it will be unsafe to enter space from Earth (NASA). Now, as discussion of colonizing Mars intensifies, space junk has a new way of spreading and clogging up more of the universe. When humans colonize Mars they will

Space junk is a very important because it can cause harm, not only to NASA, but to Earth and everyone on Earth. Scientists are trying their best to find a way to stop it from doing this, but with people that are as smart as them in one room trying to make a decision is not easy.

Today, the number of satellites to ever launch into space is about 7,500 (Urry, 2014). The number of space debris identified by NASA is over millions of all sizes (“SciTechTalk”). The satellites and particles in the Low Earth Orbit are of greatest concern to scientists because this is where most of the operational satellites orbit around (Jessa, 2011).

The problem we have here is that we have a weapon that has been used for environmental warfare. True, the main purpose the contractors had in mind was to detect anomalies in the ionosphere by bursting it with energy, but if you just think back to science class, when you excite atoms, they collide and after some duration of time, cause lots of heat. Of course, this is limited, but let’s say you want to play dangerous. Paired with doping agents like arsenic and boron (which happen to cause Alzheimer’s disease) in the atmosphere, you can turn the sky into a giant capacitor or circuit.

People tossing out trash means that they don’t care what happens to it as long as it’s out of their car or house. People should think of the impact they can cause the environment if they recycle properly, reusing water bottles, and when they go grocery shopping bring a reusable bags that won’t be thrown out into streams and lakes that will cause pollution to the environment. If someone throws garbage where it shouldn’t belong then throw it out for them to keep the environment clean.

even fully planned space missions can be turned into things that are even more productive than

Space exploration is necessary and huge on helping our world because it could help avoid extinction. One major event that happened in earth's history was the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs by an extremely large asteroid the same fate could happen today causing almost every one and thing to die. NASA is investigating a project called DE-STAR or Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation, the experts at the UCSB Experimental Cosmology Group state “DE-STAR is a proposed system to deflect asteroids, comets, and other near-Earth objects (NEO) that pose a credible risk of impact. The objects that cross Earth’s orbit, even relatively small ones, can still have a devastating effect” (par. 1). DE-STAR is a giant laser that can direct a huge amount of light to a redirect or destroy a near earth object such as asteroid or a comet.

Due to the large number of space exploration projects, a large belt of debris has formed that can be hazardous to other operational spacecraft. As engineers, we have an ethical responsibility to prevent pollution of Earth’s atmosphere. We have learned a hard lesson on the value of environment from right here on Earth. Trends show that the debris belt circling the Earth will only get bigger, and become more hazardous to spacecraft.

American citizens throw away millions of tons of garbage each year, and this trash has to go somewhere. While there are projects underway to clean and reuse this refuse most of it gets dumped into huge landfills. These landfills are disgusting festering blisters on our country's landscape. But people continue to consume and throw away more and more in the name of convenience. As they see it, when things get old, throw it away and get a new one. They blame the government for the trash problem, but the truth blame should be placed on themselves.