I believe that the global warming issue is on of the most wired up discussions the world have ever seen. Almost every week there is something in the newspaper concerning the climate change. And the article is often containing pleadings to the public to reduce their carbon footprint by any means necessary. Witch is good if there really is danger of a global climate catastrophe. The forecasts made by “people in white coats with nametags” say that the earth’s temperature will rise another 5 degrees centigrade in the next hundred years. Very intimidating you might think. But do we really know that the climate is changing just because of the harm made by us humans? The simple answer to that question is that we really don’t know. The scientists are just guessing. In the same way that the oil industry speculates that the worlds oil reserves will dry out in 20 years time. Or the prediction that there will be a global resource crisis when earth’s population reaches the 10 billion mark. We have evidence that the planet is getting warmer but we don’t know if its singlehandedly caused by us humans.
Some facts that I have read and heard about the environmental hysteria that have occurred during the 20’Th century are quite funny. In the 1970’s studies showed that the earth was cooling down. And the public and media went crazy. People from all over the world protested against this “global cooling” witch was caused by humans burning fossil fuels. Today thirty years later other studies show that the world is getting hotter at a disastrous rate because of the use of fossil fuels. And of course the media and public start to wave their arms around just like they did before, Make up your mind people! Are we going to die freezing or will we be cocked to death on this planet? However the culprit to the shifting climate (whether it’s getting hot or cold) seems to be the fossil fuel. So the remedy would be to use other sources of heat and propellant than fossil fuel in the future.
But if the oil and coal runs out in about 20 years time like the oil-people predicts, the problem will be solved and the temperature will be stabilised. The planet will be maybe 1 degree centigrade warmer but I couldn’t care less. And if the global warming doesn’t stop at that point, ooh boy will Al Gore look stupid.
More stupid than before that is…
söndag 28 september 2008
lördag 13 september 2008
Video game addiction
Video games have been a part of our society for almost half a century. Because of my age I weren’t there to experience the first games and consoles that started the multi billion dollar market that it is today. The first videogame that I was introduced to was the Nintendo 8-bit console. But the first console I actually bought was a Playstation 1 console and it really mesmerized me and I spent a lot of time playing it. But it never became addicting, maybe because you can save the game and then start playing from where you where the next time. In about the same time that I bought my Playstation we (my family) got a computer witch became an excellent gaming tool. As the years flew by the Playstation became outdated but we kept updating the computer and soon it became the golden orb of gaming. Today I still use my computer to play games but I have never boarded the SS Addiction to nerdtown.
A couple of years ago I played World of warcraft but only a short period of time and only because I was given a 10-day free trail of the game. A friend of mine gave me the free trail “card” whom himself where a dedicated player of the game. After finishing the free trail I made a summary of the ten days of gaming in my head and it sounded something like this: Really nice game but who the would buy a game and then pay more money to play it and then spend a lot of hours, days or weeks playing it? Not me that’s for sure. The friend of mine whom I just mentioned played the game at an additional level for two years. It started when we both where in senior high and by the second year he started playing “wow” at a moderate level. By the third year he became addicted and started to cut classes and when he showed up in class he looked like a wreck. He’s grades started falling and eventually he dropped out. The only thing he could think about was the game. I remember one time when we watched a film at his place on his computer. He stopped the film before the ending and said that I had to go home because he needed to play at that very moment. The game ruled his life.
I have never been addicted to any form of video game in my life and I feel very fortunate considering what I have seen happen to my friend. Cases of video game addiction increases year after year as more people join into the world of video games. In my opinion video game addiction is placed in the same category as gambling addiction. I can also compare people who are addicted to video games to “adrenaline junkies” who place them selves in situations where they feel the most alive. Maybe it is the same with video game addiction? The players put themselves in a new exciting world where they can relax and express themselves in a completely different way compared to normal life.
A couple of years ago I played World of warcraft but only a short period of time and only because I was given a 10-day free trail of the game. A friend of mine gave me the free trail “card” whom himself where a dedicated player of the game. After finishing the free trail I made a summary of the ten days of gaming in my head and it sounded something like this: Really nice game but who the would buy a game and then pay more money to play it and then spend a lot of hours, days or weeks playing it? Not me that’s for sure. The friend of mine whom I just mentioned played the game at an additional level for two years. It started when we both where in senior high and by the second year he started playing “wow” at a moderate level. By the third year he became addicted and started to cut classes and when he showed up in class he looked like a wreck. He’s grades started falling and eventually he dropped out. The only thing he could think about was the game. I remember one time when we watched a film at his place on his computer. He stopped the film before the ending and said that I had to go home because he needed to play at that very moment. The game ruled his life.
I have never been addicted to any form of video game in my life and I feel very fortunate considering what I have seen happen to my friend. Cases of video game addiction increases year after year as more people join into the world of video games. In my opinion video game addiction is placed in the same category as gambling addiction. I can also compare people who are addicted to video games to “adrenaline junkies” who place them selves in situations where they feel the most alive. Maybe it is the same with video game addiction? The players put themselves in a new exciting world where they can relax and express themselves in a completely different way compared to normal life.
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