blog 2

In the first part of the book Kohak says that we are more like animals than meets the eye. I feel that animals are able to feel just as we feel and have the same emotions just cant express their emotions as we do. As a pet owner i can tell when my animals are sick, happy, sad, and tired. Animals also are content with living as pets, as long as they are cared for.

Kohak also says that we can only cover up so much with "yellow paint". We (humans) over time have caused so much damage to the earth that the damage is irreversible. Also he says we are just consumers and that if we do not change we will run out of our natural resources. My stand is that we are a consumer society but we can live without certain resources. We do not need to consume as much oil as we do but to live at a functional society we have to consume some. We cant just stop drilling due to the oil crisis, our society would crumble underneath us.

The solution would be a steady decline in our natural resource consumption while trying to find an alternative to the resource so we may consume as much as we need and we will be able to not use the resources that will not always be there. The only problem with finding an alternative to natural resources is the money it will cost. The government sees this as a problem but would rather spend more money on other "important-pressed issues". We can not make this change without the support of the government and the world as one.