A Whole New World

This week I attended a one-time screening for a characterization c entirelyed Derby Baby. It was a documentary film on women who play tumbler bowler. It was a sm exclusively screening in a town called Wilmette. everyplace the past year I have been introduced to the culture and world of crimper derby by my girlfriend. I have been able to experience many a(prenominal) an(prenominal) different events related to the culture, but this movie brought a different liveness to the culture of roller derby. I never looked at the sport or hobby as a culture but have recognise what a culture it is for many state.The clothing that is worn, the love, the passion, the life, the beamment these argon all so different that my lifestyle. People who love roller derby commit their lives to it, their free time their friends are all in roller derby or volunteer. The sport is volunteer ran, the games, the practices, the doers, no one is paid for what they do. non many cultures of sports are like t his, which makes them very unique. I used to let out myself judging the people in roller derby, assuming they were all forthcoming and spontaneous people, but over the past year and from this movie I have learned it is an outlet for many.It is a place where quiet people dope bring out a different side of them and a place where the outgoing can be more crazy and exciting. paradiddle derby is non just a game for entertainment it is a way of life for many. The level of commitment depends on the individual. A player non only plays but volunteers, joins a committee within the league, coaches, trains, parties, they do it all. You can also have a love for derby and non play you can be a referee or a fan who is spiritedly involved. The possibilities are never ending. It is a passion that many do not roll in the hay about, like many other cultures it is time lag to be instal.A altogether spick-and-span worldThe world has deceased far from what it was a century ago. As the world grows out of date, things on it, well-nigh it, and under it have changed considerably many were even replaced by new ones. As time goes on, man has invented and innovated much on four study human activity sectors industry, energy, transportation and agriculture. (B Goldstein, 2002)Humans have been blinded by the striking changes and improvements on their ways of living brought about by technological advancements, industrial enterprise and the transformation of almost everything in this whole new world For all of these, man has sacrificed his most precious wealth his health. If we are to unveil the disguise of this whole new world, we impart see that what we actually have is a set of whole new pollutants- the gravest threat to human health.In the both fencesitter studies conducted in atomic number 20 relative to the health hazards of exposure to the soot in diesel emissions, researchers has released alarming result figures. In 2005 half a meg of work and school absences, an d at least 1,100 premature deaths were caused by respire emissions from old diesel equipment. (Union of Concerned Scientists) So this is our prize for desiring to have this whole new world a highly industrialized one. The birth of high rise buildings, the construction of hospitals and transportation facilities, comes the birth of soot. Soot particles come presently from the tailpipe of engines and contribute to the unhealthy levels of particulate government issue (PM) (UCS p.20).The fine particulate matter lodges like tiny razor blades deep in human lungs harmonize to Kevin Hamilton, who have led one of the two studies in California. Particulate contamination as Don Anair of the Union of Concerned scientists puts it is a silent killer. What the world gets from industrialization are heart diseases, asthma and cancer. The compensation of reading is hundreds of different chemicals from the diesel soot sulfates, ammonium, nitrates, elemental carbon, condensed organic compound, carc inogenic compounds, arsenic, sou-east cadmium and zinc. If one thinks that he can get rid of this befoulment by going out of the city, he is wrong. The study even found out 2that soot particles is present at the South Pole.Suggestions as to firmness of purpose this problem include basically replacing the old equipment with new ones. The worrisome thing about this is that most of these equipment last for 20 to 30 years. That would imply humans still have to have themselves exposed to this pollution for two to three decades before they will be replaced with less-emitting machines. Taking this fact 3for every additional 10 micrograms of soot in a cubic mebibyte of air is equivalent to 4.5% increase in heart attacks, how many lives will still be sacrificed in three decades? Being also a cancer-causing agent, soot pollution is not supposed to be taken for granted.The California Air Resources Board reported that soot is responsible for 70% of the put on the line of cancer from airbo rne toxics. No one is safe and exempted from the deadly set up of diesel pollution, especially those who are living in soot-polluted areas like California. In fact, the 26% increase in mortality rate in much(prenominal) areas is attributed to soot-pollution.One does not have to be an environmentalist in order to know what is actually going on with the air we all breathe. We do not have to be scientifically inclined in order to scan what these research studies figures are all about. We just have to have a little concern of the future, especially the lives of the children who have no chance of fixing their future. Their only choice, if it is a choice, is to live in the world where their parents brought them up a polluted world brought about by industrialization. I am not against development, nor am I against industrialization. I am against the carelessness of the proponents of this development who seemingly have overlooked the long term health effects of these processes.There is no escape to industrialization- the world, being governed by the laws of the material-driven humans, is inclined to be there. What has been done can no more be undone, and that is the sad truth. But there is a means of deterring the worst scenario laws that will regulate the further use of soot-emitting engines or equipment.The government has to genuinely work hard to ensuring the safety of their people, as they are expected to do so. The human health and the environment can no more wait. The best time to act is now. The chance of this growing old world of getting a better place to live in is declining. We can no more turn back time, what has been helpless is lost forever. Let us not lose what we still have today.WORKS CITEDWilson, Janet. The horrendous health Effects of Pollution Reported. The Los Angeles Times. December 05, 2006. Retrieved from http//www.topix.net/content/trb/3412963485317685650330925717330288178910 on February 20, 2007Environmental Health Perspectives. Seeing Through the Soot. 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