Given humanity\u2019s innate ties to food, as a cultural centerpiece, a custom or family tradition, and as the energy that sustains us, it has been helpful to me to explore an emotional approach to understanding the material covered in this course as a means of supplementing my logical and analytic understanding. Several of the contemplative practices we have conducted throughout the past few weeks have been helpful to this end, if only to a minor degree. The activity our class partook in that involved the slow breakdown of the processes required in eating a single raisin, helped me to picture the processes involved in growing, producing, and transporting the raisin.<\/p>\n
This accentuation of the effort required to produce and deliver something so basic, helped me to appreciate the value of the raisin more, which can be extended to food in general. What was more helpful was the exercise that involved slowly picturing different steps in the production of fossil fuels, taking guidance from the pictures shown on the projector. This really helped me to gauge my emotions in regard to the continued use of fossil fuels, and the trajectory the world is taking towards future energies: do we want to fight tooth and nail to squeeze out one last painful half century of fossil fuel energy, or do we want to use our time and energy (no pun intended) to advance a future of renewables, one that doesn\u2019t endanger our species due to resource conflicts and trade disputes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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