Week Two

I watched the Story of Stuff video on bottled water. When it was stated that most tap water is actually cleaner than bottled water, i was really surprised. Those big water companies shouldn't be deceiving people into buying their dirtier and more expensive water. The production of them is harmful to the environment, but people don't even realized it because it is so common now for people to only drink bottled water. Personally, I don't drink much bottled water because I know it is a waste of plastic, which is also detrimental to our health; however, I think that everyone should cut down on the consumption of bottled water, and it would be better for our health and environment, and cut down prices.



Point-We need to stop drinking bottled water
Argument-Bottled water is detrimental to our health
Evidence-Most bottled water is dirtier than tap water and the plastic it is packaged in is bad for our body

Point-We need to stop buying bottled water (promoting their production)
Argument-The production of bottled water is harmful to the environment
Evidence-Oil used during production is being dumped back into the land, and plastic is burnt, releasing toxic gases into the air we breathe

Here's a link to a news article on how federal officials are cracking down on websites that are illegally offering first-run movies:

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_15414327?source=rss

Pirating movies is illegal. It's just like stealing, and it is hurting our economy severely, yet many people are doing it because they don't realize the extreme effects.