In Class Response to Bio-Quiz/Eaarth

        Bill McKibben, the author of Eaarth, has a podcast available on the Internet that is very convicting. In this podcast, McKibben talks about the way that humans use the planet Earth. McKibben also gives advice on how the Earth should be used and how to grow crops and such to avoid the overuse of land and resources. McKibben says many times that if these ways of farming and industry aren't corrected or fixed, the world may collapse sooner than expected. An interesting fact from McKibben's podcast was that "less than 1 percent of Americans are now really farming at the moment, so there's twice as many prisoners as there are farmers in the United States". Basically, the author is saying that these "go green" campaigns are going too slow. Another resource that is convicting and has pointed out human's unawareness for Earth is a simple Bio-regional Quiz. Many of the questions in the quiz go unanswered or end with the reader being dumbstruck. This hesitancy is an easy indicator of how much humans can ignore what is going on around them. Naturally, the human race would rather consume than conserve any day of the week.