Step 1- Read all the proposed laws from the previous assignment.
Step 2- Choose one proposed law which is thoughtful.
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First, paraphrase the proposed law you are responding to: For example: “Mr.Adham Abdehareed thinks that…”
Then, write a question about the proposed law. The question must be: clear, sincere, useful and be the sort of question which leads to more questions. The question you write must complicate the comment’s argument, make the reader of the comment you are questioning think deeper. Stir up some intellectual trouble.
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ReplyDeleteEvelyn Rivkind thinks that we should make deforestation illegal to save the environment. She thinks deforestation increases global warming for reasons such as the oxygen trees produce. It is true that we need the trees to give out oxygen and take in carbon dioxide, but we get so much items that we use every day from trees we cut down. Every day in school we have to take out a loose leaf or notebook to write down whatever is on the board, loose leaf and notebook paper made from the trees we cut down. A lot of medicine we use needed plants as an essential ingredient to make it work. Most sweeteners we use are made of plants. Even caffeine is made from those trees, and I have barely scratched the surface with the products we make and use from the trees we cut from deforestation.
ReplyDeleteMy questions to Evelyn is “Can we adapt to not using the products we get from the trees we cut down in deforestation?”
Ms. Anni Bangiev thinks that by showing how global warming is a serious matter, people will try to stop it. She also believes that since people do not believe in global warming, they are not doing anything to try to solve this problem. I agree that we should show how serious global warming to the public, but even with the knowledge of global warming, people still do not do anything. All over the world, people already know the effects of global warming, but people do not take it seriously. My question is "What will finally get the world motivated enough to help stop global warming?"
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ReplyDeleteMr. Jonathan Sperling says that if he were a senator he would make a law saying that people using Christmas trees need to switch to artificial trees. I don't think that this law will help at all in stopping globa warming. Artificial trees are made out plastic, plastic isn't considered to be a "green" material. Plastic is made from oil which is a limited resource. By making these trees we will actually be harming the enviroment even more then saving it.
ReplyDeleteMy question is " Will switching to artificial trees really save the planet?"
Mr. Adam Abdelhameed says that if he was a senator, he would make a law that all cars would be electric. Although electric cars have some pros, such as not emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it has many cons. For example, since the cars would be electric, they would run on batteries. The current batteries for electric cars have a relatively short trip capacity. Also, recharging the batteries would take hours. Presently, the current batteries made, only survive so many recharges before requiring replacement, and replacing batteries are expensive. In addition, the batteries currently contain unfriendly chemicals that must be handled properly. These chemicals, used to make the batteries, are toxic and dangerous to the environment.
ReplyDeleteMy question to Adam is,” How do you propose that we dispose of these used-up batteries, because I certainly don’t want toxic landfills in my backyard nor toxic chemicals leeching into my drinking water?”
Nicole Agaronnik stated that if she was a senator, she would write a law that by 2020 there should no longer be any production or purchasing of gas powered from countries other than the U.S. and by 2025, gas–powered cars would no longer be allowed on the roads all over the world. Instead of gas, the people would use electricity or solar power. To make this plan work she would make the car companies make 10% less gas-powered cars every year so that by 2020 production of gas-powered cars will stop completely. The price on the gas-runned cars should raise and the electric and solar power cars would stay at an affordable price. I really like this idea. To get something to be sold and used, you have to advertize it and the best way to get on the costumers good side is to make the price affordable.
ReplyDeleteMy question is “How can you depend on solar power and electricity?” If it is not sunny outside or it is raining, how can you drive to where you need to go? What do you do when you need to get to a long distance area and the electricity all dies out?
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ReplyDeleteAndrei Doilidov thinks that making people do 7 hours of community service per week will help resolve our problem of global warming. He says that during these 7 hours, humans will be picking up trash and planting trees. I agree that community service is essential to help our earth make it through this crisis. Our world needs to be cleaned and this effort will help us do that. However, some people cannot afford to do 7 hours of community service. Some work over 12 hours a day and those community service hours will not fit in their schedule. Those people will not be able to obey that law, and will be put in jail. Disabled people will also have to suffer penalties because they are unable to perform this service. My question is, “Is it fair to make this type of unethical law that may send dozens of people to jail?”
ReplyDeleteMs. Amanda Varvak stated that if she was a senator, she would pass a few laws to help the planet, and the first one that she came up with was pretty questionable. "The first law would be for everyone to switch to electric cars", she stated. She may be right, it does sound like a good plan, but there is an unreasonable side to it. Hybrid (or electric) cars cost a fortune! How could everyone switch to them? America is already in debt, so how could we possibly afford to manufacture that many hybrid cars, and make sure everyone has one?
ReplyDeleteMs. Yana K. says that if she were to become senator, she would make a law that 1,000,000 trees would have to be planted each year. This would be very good in helping with the environment and the carbon-dioxide emissions. But then of course, because so many companies have been cutting down trees and putting homes and buildings in their place. This means there is now less room to plant any trees. If too many trees are planted in small areas while trying to accomplish this law, they will die. When trees are close together the roots become intertwined, and they may not grow out. So we would then have to cut down the newly planted trees, because most of them have died.
ReplyDeleteMy question for Yana is, if we try to plant 1,000,000 trees all across the world every year, would we be doing good for the animals and the air, or doing harm to the safety of human lands?
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ReplyDeleteMs. Rina Gershman says that deforestation should be illegal. She says we require trees to live and that saving trees is more important than making money by cutting them down. I strongly agree with this statement and that trees should be conserved by all means necessary. If all the trees were to suddenly die out we would die within minutes. But if deforestation is made illegal what will happen to us. As humans, it is in our nature to make room for ourselves and deforestation is one method of doing that.
ReplyDeleteSo my question to Rina Gershman is how will we be effected if a law illegalizing deforestation is created?
Mr. Adam Abdelhameed says that if he was a senator, he would make a law that all cars would be electric. I also think that would be a good idea and should be followed. There is a problem though. Not everyone can afford to buy electric cars. They are expensive and the battery cost a lot. Also people are in dept and some can barely even afford a normal car. My question to Mr. Adam Abdelhameed is "If you want people to buy electric cars, will you help them out and pay for part of it or will you just make them buy it themselves"?
ReplyDeleteAs a senator, Ms. Fradah Gold had decided to make a law that would limit the amount of green house gases that are released into the air by industries and peoples cars. She believes that law breakers should get penalties and those that do not break the laws should be rewarded. She would've created a foundation to help raise money for researchers. The researchers would use the money to help come up with ideas to remove this harmful gases and to come up with a new idea or type of technology that will help us decrease the amount of carbon dioxide concentration or to even stop global warming once and for all. Ms. Gold believes that this should be a worldwide foundation and that if every nation participates in helping the researchers then there'll be a way to solve this problem.
ReplyDeleteMy question(s) to Fradah Gold is this, "What kinds of consequences and rewards would you give to the people? And if most of the people in the world would obey the law, how would you reward that many people?"
Andrei Doilidov says that if he was a senator, he would propose a law that would forbid people from driving with only one person in a car and force people do to seven hours of community service per week. He believes that this will help make the earth a cleaner and happier place. Even though i do agree that people should be kinder to our planet, these laws seem unethical and highly unfair. my question for him is "If there are two people in a car and one person gets out, does the person who is still in the car have to now leave their car in a parking spot and go take the bus to avoid getting a ticket?"
ReplyDeleteMs. Dena Samad says that if she was a senator, she would propose a law that would require the government to reduce taxes on incomes, and increase taxes on energy, pollution, and waste? She thinks that as the price increases, people will find ways to avoid them. My question for her is this: How exactly will you tax pollution and waste? How will you measure the amount of pollution and waste wasted?
ReplyDeletePhillip Kang stated that if he was senator he would pass a law that says that gas-using cars should be turned off in order to save gas and help stop the climate crisis. I agree that turning off all gas-using cars would be a great help towards stopping global warming. However, I believe that this law won’t be helpful towards transportation. In today’s day the transport of goods and people completely relies on vehicles that use gas such as cars, buses, trains, ferries, and ships. Therefore, my question is, “If we don’t use gas-using vehicles for transportation, what other ways are there to transport goods and people?”
ReplyDeleteNicole Ginzburg says that if she were senator, she would make smoking illegal. Ms. Ginzburg states that smoke releases toxic fumes into the air and creates pollution. Not only do the people get hurt, the environment does to. This is why she believes smoking should be illegal. I agree with Nicole, but this is not a realistic law that could be made. The people that do want to quit most likely tried to do so but couldn’t. People that smoke are addicted to it and it will be hard to quit, even if it is against the law. My question is “If smoking became illegal, would people really stop smoking, or would their addiction cause them to break the law?”
ReplyDeleteMs.Yana K says if she was the senator, she would make it law that 1,000,000 new trees will have to be planted each year. She believes planting trees will convert all access carbon dioxide into oxygen. My question though is, "Many people usually aren't persuaded enough to start planting trees. What could we do to show that planting trees can actually make a big difference in the atmosphere, rather than this being just an option you choose whether you should or shouldn't have to do"
ReplyDeleteMr. Mitchell Eng states that if he were senator, he would propose a law that made everyone owning a house or apartment also have a compose bin or garden. This would be an effective way to reduce carbon emissions, but what if the people do not ave enough room, or time to maintain a garden. My question to him, is will the people actually obey this law, if they don't have enough time, or space to maintain it?
ReplyDeleteAndrei Doilidov said that if he were senator, he would propose a law that would make it illegal to drive in a car if there is only one person in it. He would also force people to do community work for seven hours every week. I believe that this can make earth a cleaner place but people have jobs and work to do. They might not be able to do the community service. My question to him is, if someone wants to drive to a place by themselves where no other means of transportation can be used to get there other than a car, how are people going to be able to travel to these places?
ReplyDeleteAlyssa Natividad proposed a law that clarified that all Americans must buy Hybrid cars. Even though they are expensive, she says that the prices of the cars should decrease. If all of the prices of Hybrid cars decrease, car dealers or private owners would not make profit - they would lose most of their profit. If the government doesn't make any profit, the whole United States would go through bankrupt and people would become poor. My question to Alyssa is, "Is it a risk to take by putting the whole united states even more in bankrupt even though we owe more than 12 trillion dollars over the world just to decrease global warming?"
ReplyDeleteMs. Ariel Leong said that she, as a senator, would set a law that prohibited vehicles from idling. She thinks that idling is the major reason for the carbon dioxide level rising leading to climate changes and finally to global warming. I agree with Ariel that if we can stop idling, the environment would be healthier and people could save money as well. As a senator, maybe Ariel should start from big factories and businesses which pollute the air in a more significant way. They may increase the carbon dioxide level much more than even thousands idling cars can do. I think that by intensifying the control of the amount of greenhouse gas production by industrial companies, we can achieve the slowing down global warming.
ReplyDeleteMy question to Ariel is, should we first make it a law to fine idling cars or should we put a limit to the amount of greenhouse gas production by industrial companies to help stop global warming?
In Mr.David Krumgalz's statement, he proposed that gas-powered cars would be made illegal. I find this highly unethical since there are more gas-using cars produced than hybrid cars. Also, if gas powered cars were outlawed, what would you,Senator Krumgalz, do with the thousands of gas powered cars that Americans own.Our nations scrap yards would over-flow with perfectly good gas powered cars.Besides that point, Senator Krumgalz also states in his bill that Americans should use water and electric cars instead of gas powered ones. Does Senator Krumgalz forget that our nation is recovering from a serious recession and can't afford to meet the demand that Americans would need if there only choice was hybrids.Hybrid cars usually cost several thousand dollars more than gas powered cars.One of my major questions for Senator Krumgalz is:Would America's middle-class and poor citizens be able to afford this bill?
ReplyDeleteMs. Ilana Urman stated that if she was a senator, she would make a law that factories must label their food products and containers saying “Please Recycle”. I believe that this wouldn’t work. This wouldn’t work because if someone received a food item and saw that it said “Please Recycle”, they would just not pay attention to it, or they would be too lazy to do it. Sometimes, people probably wouldn’t be able to see the label because they will be paying attention to the product that they bought. My question to Senator Ilana is “ If there were labels saying “please recycle”, would you really listen to it and recycle, or would you just not even notice it just like everyone else would?”… “Would this law really work to help stop global warming?”
ReplyDeleteAndrei Dolidov said that if he were Senator he would propose a law that would make it illegal to drive in a car with only 1 person in it. He would also enforce people to do community work for seven hours every week. I think both of these are unethical because it may be helping the Earth but people have jobs to go to and places to be. They don't have time to look for someone to drive with. And a lot of people would get fined for not following this. And seven hours a week is a lot. We get home and have a ton of homework somtimes even projects. My question is how would people get were they need to on time if they can just hop in a car instead of waiting for a bus then paying? Also you will need a lot more cops because many people would break the two people or more in a car law.
ReplyDeleteMr Adam Abdelhameed stated that: “I would try to make it a law that all cars be electronic. I would try to reduce the costs of the cars to people would buy more without attacking their wallets and without hurting the economy.” My question is: How would you reduce the prices of all of the cars of the U.S without harming the car companies? Harming the companies who make the electrical cars would harm the government because, the government would have to fund the companies, since electrical cars are required. Eventually the government would go bankrupt and there would be chaos throughout the country.
ReplyDeleteMr. Jonathan Sperling states that if he was a senator then he would make a law saying that everyone should use artificial Christmas trees rather than real ones. I don’t believe that this can help stop global warming. Artificial trees are plastic and that doesn’t really make anything better. This would be harming the environment, not helping it.
ReplyDeleteMy question is “How did you think that artificial trees would help save our environment?”
Mr. Jonathon Sperling says that switching to artificial Christmas trees will help stop global warming. Christmas is once a year and switching to artificial trees, which are most are made of plastic, can actually be harmful to the environment. Plastic is not "green" material and uses a lot of energy to make. It also uses a lot of oils and gases which is harmful to the earth. My question to Mr. Jonathon Sperling is: What are the positive effects to switching to artificial trees?
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