This blog is being started for a class requirement, but I do have to say that I am somewhat looking forward to it. Keeping a journal of my thoughts has always been difficult to do, I just always seem to get started and somewhere down the line I stop doing it.... then again I pick it up, and then again I give it a rest... So maybe as a class requirement, this process will be more consistent.
My first impression of our first day of class was good. Our professor seems really excited and committed in teaching this class. Plus he has numerous international professional experience, which adds to the lectures and coursework.
What I found very interesting from yesterdays lecture, were the changing trends in population. I am still a little unclear as to why the trend changes to a different shape. I find it interesting though because this has been a topic of discussion with some of my friends and I. My friend just found out that in Germany, the government is giving montly stipends for families that are having babies... I also just watched Children of Men, which is a great movie and I am recommending everyone go see. It was a bit eary, because its something that could happen, and probably is. I mean with the changes happening to our Mother Earth (global warming), and wtih things like radiation, our cell phone use (who knows whats these gadgets are doing to us in the long run), the hormones and steroids in the food we eat (that is unnatural and just WRONG), and all the genetically modified foods they are producing... I have even heard of rumors of corn being genetically modified to sterilize women (I'm definitely going to look this up now...). So its possible. Anyways, I feel like I have rambled, but I guess thats what this blog is for.
I'm really looking forward to this class. Its seems like its going to be a challenge, but I'm grateful for that. It seems that I learn the most from classes that are challenging. I can't wait for discussion as well.... and let me just say that I am really really looking forward to our discusssions on sustainable development. As some of my classmates know... I'm all about self-sustainable communities...
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hey janeth, interesting thoughts! i never heard about gmo'd corn that sterilizes women...on purpose?? i might have to look that one up now too. and the whole idea of giving stipends to women to have children...since when do we need an incentive to procreate? :)
Hi Yaneth. I will have to check out that movie. I agree that the impact of contaminants, whether inflicted on purpose or just the natural affects of living in industrializing global economies, are major concern for the future. I love your focus on sustainable societies as a possible solution to dealing with these concerns because a sustainable society perhaps doesn't need to rely on any motivations based on external financial or political motivations.
Interesting stuff on your work projects too, I didn't know some of that stuff!
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