My Anti Drug

If I had to choose, I suppose I would say that my anti drug is playing video games. While it may not be the most impressive or refined activity, it is something that I truly enjoy doing. With all the stresses involved in life, it is certain that everyone needs some type of activity to help them cope. After a long day, I find nothing more enjoyable than sitting on a comfortable couch and playing a round of games like Mario Kart or Super Smash Brothers. What I find most appealing about video games is the social and competitive experiences that coincide with online game play as well as the story lines within the offline game play. In a world like the one we live in now, it's fun to take a break from reality, forget your troubles, and immerse yourself into an adventure that surpasses the limitations of our reality.

An Inconvenient Truth

Watching the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, really opened my eyes and made acknowledge the urgency of environmental issues concerning global warming. While some people tend to say that this ongoing danger is nonexistent, this documentary presents legitimate scientific facts and data that are too well supported to ignore. After watching this documentary, I am now aware that global warming can raise sea levels by up to twenty feet due to the increased temperature of oceans melting the polar ice caps as well as Greenland. This also has the effect of displacing animals such as penguins and polar bears from their natural habitat. Not only that, but the increased temperature of Earth's surface also melts the ice from several mountains whose runoff water supports nearly forty percent of all people on Earth. Aside from arctic and antarctic animals, Global warming has had the effect of speeding up the time at which certain insects and birds hatch. However, some species of birds do not hatch fast enough in time to feed upon the newly hatched insects that hatch faster and are forced to deviate from their normal eating pattern, endangering the size of their population. Indeed, such consequences should attract the attention of many, but sadly, they do not. I am glad to have been enlightened on the subject of global warming, but it worries me of what consequences are to come in the near future if people continue to remain apathetic to this issue at hand.