Kalan's Korner

 

Discussion time/date/location: Sept 14th, 2022 6pm-6:32 via Zoom! Participants: ALL: Kalan Dixon, Cj Dierking, Gigi Descalzi This week, like my peers, didn’t have as much trash as I expected, I think this is because this week was very busy for me and I haven’t been home a lot. However, I did take notice that I had a lot of single-use snacks and food packages. Things like pringles can, fruit snack wrappers, and mini ice creams, haha. From our group discussion we found out that both I and Gigi had a cold, so we both had a lot of tissues, and I had a few Dayquil wrappers. I was also doing a garbage collection exercise in one of my other courses and one thing we talked about was that paper products take up the most mass in landfills today. Not plastic, not dirty, diapers (which is surprisingly a higher percentage as well), but all paper products. It really surprised me the number of paper products (paper towels, toilet paper, etc) I had in my trash. If I had to choose

One of the biggest environmental issues that has directly impacted my life, and I'd assume that many of my peers can relate, would have to be the global pandemic that was  covid-19. I say was, but however slow covid is still very apparent. For more than almost 2, for me, the normalty of a computer screen has been instilled in my head as a  direct  correlation to learning. While it is very obvious that my generation is, and has always been technologically dependent covid made that dependency depend. While I have the privilege to say I didn't directly lose anyone close to me to the virus I, and many others, have been affected mentally and emotionally.  Losing the only face-to-face interactions I looked forward to every school day caused me to start to develop a sort of social handicap, where it's difficult for me to engage with others around me naturally. My social battery became stunted. Many in my generation of adolescence have lost the ability

My group and I mainly discussed how we thought Ismael was correct in his thinking that the others in society, the leavers and takers, were just using Earth as a crutch, and taking all of its resources for granted. From our discussion one of the bugger themes that sparked interest in me was the question: " Is Ishmael right to think of humanity in terms of Takers and Leavers? ". As a group, we came to the conclusion that yes, Ismael was somewhat right in his interpretation of society as Takers and/or Leavers. One of my group members Gigi mentioned how historically there have always been takers and leavers in society. Mainly we as people tend to be more self-centered, "taking" what benefits us and leaving the environment and the things left around us without a second thought. Takers then undoubtedly leave thinking they have helped, put back the pieces with some restorative projects, and preservative measures but in reality what has been done, more often than not cannot