Best Of Week: Ted Presentation

 As graduation approaches, this quarter in humanities, we have been focusing strongly on creating a future for ourselves. We explored questions on our futures and how to pursue the things we love. We learned how to sustain and be a citizen of this world. Exploring the idea of sustainability,many students in class have started their presentation on their ted speaker.  One idea that really captured my mind was Kimmy’s speaker, Bill Gates, on the new innovations of improving energy efficiency.

In her Ted talks presentation she presented many new ideas in improving energy efficiency.  What thought was very interesting was how the Carbon emission crisis was explained in one simple equation. Carbon emission= People x Energy x Efficiency x Carbon  output. This simple equation explained this process simpler than words. If we bring down one of these variables to zero we will be able to eliminate all Carbon emissions.

 
Connecting to Ashley’s Ted presentation, the speaker said all the materials we need to obtain clean sustainability was all on earth it was a matter of accessibility. I believe this statement is very true. For clean water to the energy and carbon emission process we have all the materials needed to fix these problems. Seventy percent of earth is covered with water and millions of kilowatts of energy hit the earth's surface more than we use. It is the problem of accessibility, being able to convert saltwater to freshwater and obtaining the energy given from the sun that is the core to all our problems.

In the next few decades we must ponder on how to better access the resources on our planet. We must learn to access these resources in a better more efficient way if we are to sustain the human race. It is not the problem of insufficient resources but the problem of accessibility.