Week 11- Restoring the American Bison to its Rightful range

1) i feel it should be high priority for the American citizen to reintroduce the American Bison. We do have some debt to pay for the mass killing of bison. I'm not sure that the score will be even in the end but at least we can have appeases some of the Bison ghosts that are running wild in this country.

2)it just goes to show that richer doesn't mean healthier. Maybe its because the richer folk are more disconnected with what is good for the body and what is bad. Its hard to say really what this study implies. But at least we can rest assured that money cant buy health and wealth isn't equal to worth. Well not yet it isn't. Maybe in a few years they will have stem cells and you can just buy a kit and grow yourself a cancer free body. Kinda like a chia pet. Just add water.

Week Ten- Ecosystems and Deep Ecology

1)i think that the platform offers a level of universal awareness that is seldom understood these days. Many of the points are inherent truths that we as humans have forgotten over the past few hundred years. Although, the 8th point seems a bit suspicious to me. Subscribing to the other points doesn't need to create any obligation. Embodying the points and receiving the benefit from them naturally is enough. There is no need to be an activist or preacher about it. Preachers and activists are funny people in my opinion. They all have a point of view and have something to prove. But universal understanding will always thrive. No need for the fight. Things will eventually balance out. They always have and always will...I'm sure this statement pisses people off but if one doesn't put up targets then there is nothing for them to punch. I'm glad there are activists in this world but ill never be one. That's just not my role here. So to say that if i agree with the "eight-point plan" means i need to take action against those who dont understand it (even in a passive way) than that war is something don't care to mingle with. If i invite politics into my sphere they fight inside me. You can all have that fight, ill just go on doing what it do quietly...

2) Ecosystems are like a spiders web; strong enough to support the spider and strong enough to catch prey, but so fragile even a mild gust of wind (external force) can destroy it.. But that is nothing to worry about because the spider will build another place to live the very next day. Life moves on, fragile and strong.

3) I think the end goals of social ecology are very interesting and informative. We are a social species and to not take social measurements into account when analyzing the successes and failures of the human race would but missing the big picture of how, why, where, when, and with who we do the things we do. I'm not sure a complete picture can be drawn though in our time. Looking back we can draw a complete picture but there are many things missed when looking in the present with a method that judges the past.

Week 8- Cell Biology: HIV and AIDS

1) Western approaches to all diseases have there plus and their minus sides. I'm not making excuses for them but all they can be expected to do is follow their paradigm of medicine when trying to tackle the problem. I think that social, psychological, economic, lifestyle, and geographic concerns should be addressed in the understanding and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

2)Id like to answer this question with a simple YES!

3)I think the "deal that saved the whale" is truly a success and an example to organization that are trying to protect the wild life of the planet. It seems that they are finding ways to make decisions that are healthy for the environment from a economical standpoint as well. I think that this "deal" sets a standard for communication between groups with different opinions and agendas and presents interesting options to the maintenance of wild life.

Week Seven- Cell Biology and Cancer

1) I'm going to say that our understanding of cancer is very sophisticated from a Western science perspective. I'm making that statement from the basis that when i read cancer descriptions from a cell biology perspective it seems pretty hard to understand. I'm sure we don't know everything, and I'm sure there is much to learn, but it seems that the proper steps are being taken to reach a very sophisticated understanding of the epidemic. But wit that said I'd also like to point out that some of the most profound in sites come from very basic concepts. So yes, our understanding of cancer is very sophisticated, but weather or not that understanding is going to produce a cure is a whole different question.

2) TCM stays with basic concepts of energetics and universal laws and strives for balance. Its goal and method of curing the problem doesn't root from trying to "kill" it, but instead trying to resolve the imbalance.

3) Id hope to think our genes are still being shaped by natural selection. An ever changing internal and external environment are cornerstones to the thriving of life. I would really hate to think we are a species that is idling at this stage of existence. It makes me much happier to think that thing are changing inside and out on every level, from cellular to universal.