My Small Thoughts in This Huge essays

My Small Thoughts in This Huge essays A year ago I was sitting in an Environmental Science AP class preparing for an assignment that was quite similar to the Personal Environmental Audit. Instead of writing down what we used and threw away, we carried trash bags with us for a week. Putting inside it everything that was a waste product of what we used. We did record what we ate for a period of time as well, we just did it for a weeks time. Since these projects were more thorough, they created even stronger thoughts of how I felt about the environmental issues dealing with the actually quite not-so-common man. After completing them, I felt that the world as a whole has a big problem and it wont be able to be fixed by a few environmentalists in each country. When lugging around a pile of paper, plastics and metals, it is hard not to think of how much energy was put into making all of the objects in my bag come into existence. Now that energy is gone and forever lost as a usable energy source in the form of heat. The same is with all of the stuff I brought with me to spend its usable life with me here at college. These are things that will eventually run its due and be buried under land some day. All of these thoughts lead to one dominating thought in my mind, If ninety-percent of our energy use is from non renewable sources, then what will we do when these sources run out?. As a person who uses a significant amount of more land than what is available per person, it is still tough to imagine what affect you are having on the world. Everyday we have the opportunity to use and consume many things that we think were so easy to come. These computers we all type our papers on, they are made of precious metals and we just think that we could get a computer any time we want. It amazes me when I think about it how we think as well, how when we throw away something we never think, oh well there is one less of that in the world now&q...