Eco Chic + Green Sunchips

For me Earth Day means a new market for many industries. Fashion, food, home ANYTHING can go green. Some people complain it's just a new marketing pitch, a new way to get our tree-hugging generation up and buying, well yeah that's true. But so what? At this day and age, people are so critical and most faux-eco companies would be rooted out until we're left with mostly, the real deal. If it's doing something good for the Earth and people like it, then what the hell. I've already seen dozens of commercials pitching their "green" products at idiots like me, and yes I'm probably going to buy them.

I'm not really into the whole save-the-earth scene, but when my favorite brand of jeans starts to make corn based shorts, I'll go out and buy them. Show me a cute bunny choking on a plastic bag of chips and yeah I'll feel guilty, but I'm not going to campaign for bio-degradable Lays bags afterward. Show me a biodegradable bag of SunChips that I was planning on buying anyways, and who knows I might just splurge on them because it's "good for the environment".

Motivation

Science is a cumulative course, everything builds on one another and eventually, all topics can be linked. Chemistry is an important component in the chain, I'm motivated to learn chemistry to not only do well in chemistry, but to retain knowledge applicable to future sciences. Also, both my parents, unfortuneately, have PhD's in chem so they both expect me to be crazy good. "IT'S GENETIC TRUST ME!" -- mom, which means don't fail at chem or you fail your parents. maha.

Sci and Politics

Sure science is political. EVERYTHING is political. In politics there's the constant question oof right or wrong, how far is too far and what can you do to grab the attention of enough people to get your point across. Science is all about pushing the boundaries of current human knowledge, but there's always the question of morals and political correctness that, at times, conflicts.

Example, we could have already made HUGE advances in finding the cure for loads of diseases if human cloning were made legal. Just suck out all the WBC's and blood you need...we'd have saved so many people by now. But what about the person just took the stuff from? In fact, do they even count as a person? They were created in a petri dish, not fermented in a mother's womb like a real human. Many similar scientific topics are actually heavily debated in politics right now.

Nowadays, science is almost like a show-and-tell type of deal. Both my parents are professors and (especially dad) knows that hey, even though the work he's doing is for the entire human race, to try to prolong and better their quality of life, you still need MONEY to fund that goal. If no one gives a cracker about you or your work, then no matter how much you want to cure a disease, it just won't happen. Like in politics you've got to sell the ideas and yourself. Keep writing grants and keep smiling, even when all you want to do is take your report and give the reviewer the worst paper cut of his life.