Global to Local, and Oil Catastrophes and much more

Today in class we discussed the saying "Think global and act local." I interpret this saying as doing something little that will have a bigger impact on the future. Also, if everyone in the world does something small, and we work together by all contributing we can make the world a better place. I shared with the class what I thought about this quote. Mr. Schick highly agreed with my answered and supported it and then went into greater detail about it. Then, he put important information up on the board about it, and I took the following notes on it. "Geographers think about scale at many levels, from local to global. At a local scale they tend to see and find unique features. Then at a global scale geographers tend to see broad patterns." After that conversation came to a close, somehow we got into the amount of oil there is in the world, and how much the United States has. We figured out from cia.gov that the United States imports the most amount of oil in the world and that we are the third largest producer for oil. We were confused and questioned why we were importing so much oil while we already had to so much of it. Apparently, just about everything we use has oil in it, and we use it a lot more than we expect. Then, Ellie asked the question about why we were so worried when the BP oil spill happened. Oil is a nonrenewable source that we are eventually going to run out of because of how much we consume. Then the conversation went in all different directions and eventually ended up with Valerie saying how her dad is best friends with Neil Armstrong's son. Then we got into how Neil went to the moon and walked on it, and I learned that he died in 2012. Then the other astronaut to walk on the moon was Buzz Aldrin. And then we got into how Buzz punched someone in the face for saying that it was all made up that he actually touched the moon. With two minutes remaining in class we researched the video of Buzz punching the guy in the face, sadly we did not have enough time to see it, and that was the end of my day.

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