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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Memo 1:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">In our society today, energy has become a necessity to function properly but the many sources we are using have harsh affects on the environment and we are in need of a new reliable clean energy source. Juliette Jowit states "The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each year, which is leading to deforestation, degraded soils, polluted air and water, and declines in numbers of fish and other species"(Jowit). This brings us to realize that we need a new source that is either abundant on earth or can be replaced by the earth faster than coal or oil is and that will limit the effects on the environment. This new source could be something such as natural gas, where in recent years, the technologies have improved styles of fracking – a way to release the natural gas – to be able to be extracted much faster and cleaner than before. Mary H. Cooper, specialist in environmental, energy and defense issues and graduate from Hollins College in English wrote that “future generations will condemn us because we did not act” (Cooper Alternative Fuels). The time has come upon us to find a new energy source that will not only supply the energy demand but also prevent further damage to our environment.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Memo 2

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">People around the world have been using natural resources to make our lives better, but as were using these oils, plastics, coal, and trees, we don't know what its doing to our environment, or we do know and we just done care. The problem is that we weren't doing anything to help, but now many companies will emerge with new technologies in fracking to release the natural gas from earth while other strong businesses will go under because they will be nothing for them to do anymore. As we used these sources, we "made it possible to strip forests of trees, with or without regard for environmental effects on the cleared land or adjacent surface waters,"(transportation economics). This carelessness has created a number of endangered species such as the polar bears, Siberian Tigers, Iberian lynx and many more species are being suffocated of their resources. The Endangered species act, enacted on December 28, 1973 "offers federal protection to a broad range of animals and plants threatened with extinction due to past environmental carelessness,"(Endangered Species Act). This is why "The federal government should be trusted to preserve natural resources because state and local governments do not have the financial capacity to do so and because these issues require a national response, rather than a regional or local one"(Natural Resources: Preservation or Conservation?).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">To solve this solution, “New drilling techniques have opened up U.S. natural gas supplies that were unavailable just a decade ago… called fracking," which consists of “horizontal drilling” (Fracturing for Natural Gas). Switching from natural resources such as oil and trees to natural gas will affect everyone; all ages, genders, races, and regions of America and some parts around the world. Rodman D. Griffin, Manager of Environmental Defense Fund, wrote that in America this topic has affected nearly everyone because “Fossil Fuels now account for 85 percent of U.S. energy use” (Griffin Alternative Energy). Many companies will emerge with new technologies. With the war in the Middle East over oil, we will be able to send our troops back home and stop the violence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP2GejkLdwA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjqR6OucBc - last sentence (time: 0.21-0.28 seconds)

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Memo 3:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">In the recent past, we haven't experienced this problem of natural resource depletion and environmental effects, simply due to the fact that we haven't abused them as bad as we do now. In an article written by Florent Planas, it states that "Up until the mid-18th century, humans only exploited energies that were available on the surface of the earth: wood, wind, animal traction..."(Plantas). We were using the resources that were able to replenish themselves, but now that we have the technology to drill and obtain oil, petroleum and other resources from beneath the earths surface, we’re using resources that cant be reused or replenished at a sustainable rate and the rapid usage of these energy sources has had its effects on the environment.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">as a result....

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">An example of this exploitation is the BP and Exxon oil spills in both the Gulf of Mexico and in Alaska. The Exxon spill, known as "the 1989 grounding of the supertanker Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound caused the worst U.S. oil spill ever and prompted Congress to pass stringent oil-pollution legislation"(Cooper) So were not only taking oils from beneath the surface, but were making fatal errors that are wasting a lot of the resources. If we crack down on regulation laws we will make sure that these errors don't happen and we will not cause harm to the environment.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Because this is a newly emerging problem for the fight for energy, were are still in the process of finding a solution to the problem. Many past solutions have come with ways to fill the needs although they have their share of drawbacks or don’t contain/produce enough energy to supply our rapidly growing population. Some of these past subsitutions have been nuclear energy, which has enough energy to power society, but “nuclear energy emits dangerous levels of heat and radiation” (Weeks Managing Nuclear Waste). Other sources such as hydro power and wind power have also been considered but these have their drawbacks as well like hydropower ruining the beauty of landscape and wind power killing thousands of birds as well as not having the space for these sources with the growing population. Other sources like fracking have been tried and at this point we need to start using the abundant sources we have at our availability. “The U.S. is estimated to have 827 trillion cubic feet of this gas… enough to last for decades” (Mooney). This energy could supply Americans and countries around the world but we just need to begin extracting it to cover the energy needs and stop the oil problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAbATJCugs&feature=relmfu (.25 - .28) industrial revolution with cars... how we've improved (.34 - .40.5) coal and burning of natural resources (1.09 - 1.14) burning fumes into the atmosphere [] http://drilling-equipment.oilrigdrillings.com/drilling-oil/ []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Memo 4

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">We need to do anything we can to save the animals and their habitats, and this means we must crack down on the laws that we have created to help make environments healthier. The United States government step in and invest in American companies to mine for natural gas, a nearly abundant resource here in our own country. This all tracks back to the revolution of using our natural resources here on earth because were not learning to let animals have their share of resources like plants, water, and food. World Wildlife's, the vision "to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature,"(World Wildlife) sums it all up, if we use less coal and oil, and use natural gas, we will be able to help the environment without having to break the bank to be able to use this energy. If we work together, "we can strengthen communities ability to conserve the natural resources they depend upon, change markets and policies to reduce the impact of the and consumption of commodities, and over all mobilize hundreds of millions of people to support conservation" (Roberts). Like I said in Memo 2, if our community makes a small impact on the world, and we can get so many small impacts, we can create a huge impact on the world.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/explore/ehs/justice.htm http://www.greenbusgroup.com/important-environmental-laws.html http://environmentallaw.uslegal.com/ http://www.in.gov/idem/4429.htm http://www.kennuncorked.com/sustainable_history.html

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Memo 5

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Government cracking down on laws to help save the environment gives us a good feeling about what we are doing, there is no question. The Endangered Species Act "ensures that species facing extinction be saved and robust populations be restored"(Barringer). In my book, The Endangered Species Act is completely necessary and its restoring life to our planet. On the other hand, Robert D. Thornton, a lawyer for developers and Indian tribes in Southern California, has argued for years "that the government goes too far to protect threatened species and curtails people's ability to use their own land"(Barringer). He is saying that the act is for the good, but we take it too far, almost depriving people of their right to the property they own.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">I oppose Roberts fears saying that they don't exist. If we are taking peoples land to make it better for the species then we are doing a good job. There is no limit to how clean our earth can be, and I think we need to increase what we do to help these species. Even if this means taking away their equipment, or land, that's what the act is supposed to do, right? The view of cracking down on our laws not only helps the environment, it will help us in the long run too. It will increase population of foods, make the air cleaner for us to breath, and it will help prevent pollution. That is why I think that there is no such thing as taking the environmental act to extremes.

http://www.seaotters.org/googleimages/DefendersofWildlifelogo.jpg http://www.universalonehealing.com/nonprofit/wildlife-charities/ http://www.theseminargroup.net/seminar.lasso?seminar=12.ESAWA http://www.travel-location-blog.com/farmland-in-waitaki-valley-93-pictures.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Memo 6

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">After considering the environmental factors of our energy sources we would have to determine the price of switching from energy sources such as coal and oil to renewable sources like wind and hydro power or less environmentally impactful sources like natural gas. Many people believe that this switch will prove to be too expensive for the United States. They think that producing new equipment to produce energy from new sources will outweigh the benefits from this energy source because they would have to scrap the old equipment from things such as oil and coal. Catherine Elder, a senior researcher associate at consulting firm Aspen Environment Group conducted a study analyzing the economics of shutting down the coal plants in which she wrote that “replacing 335,000 MW of coal fired generation [could] cost in the range of $335 Billion and the news article written by Stacy Feldman later went on to explain that the switch “would require an additional $348 Billion of new pipeline capacity” (Feldman). Many people like these two believe that the switch is way too expensive.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> While it may be quite expensive to switch, it will be very beneficial to do so. According to many people like Feldman and Elder, this could cost upwards of $700 Billion and destroy our economy but that is not including the fact that we could reuse many of the parts or sell them to other countries that are still fighting to get these “bad” sources and or sell these parts as scrap metal. The price of natural gas, Corbin Hiar - previously an editor at The Huffington Post and as a reporting editor at PBS – wrote that “U.S. natural gas prices [have] plummet[ed] from a 2008 high of nearly $13 per thousand cubic feet to below $2 – the energy-to-cost equivalent of $15-per-barrel oil” (Hiar). With the new technologies in fracking, natural gas prices have gone way down and over time could save the U.S. millions of dollars. Even though it will be a bit pricy to switch from oil and coal to renewable sources the benefits of these renewable sources will help to stop further damage to the earth and in the long run, prove to be much cheaper to produce and gather the energy.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Memo 7

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 24px;">The populations need for energy has caused us to lose our awareness of what we have been doing to our world. Our use of oil, coal, wood, and other natural resources have made us become greedy. If we dont stop exploiting these resources then we will soon face the problems that we have caused. We must try to balance of our energy needs with the vision of a greener planet. If we turn to natural gas and other green energy resources then we will help restore what once was a clean and healthy world.