Jacob Brown FBB final post

    One of the things that I have taken from this class is that we seem not to react to environmental problems until it is to late. Although it was a fictional story, the Parable of the Sower captures this very well. All the problems with water and fuel sources got so bad that they are basically irreversible by the time the story takes place. Today we are facing a growing scarcity of fossil fuels, much research is going it to green energy, but probably not as much as we should. The focus on finding alternative energy sources will likely not increase until another spike in gas prices or electric bills force it to. Rocky Flats is another example. People ignored the problem for years and by the time enough people knew about the problem it was to late. It's impossible with today's technology  to clean up Rocky Flats without bankrupting the government, but even with a huge budget a clean up project wouldn't be able to completely reverse the effects of Rocky Flats .