An Answer to F**** Religion

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This woman posted a comment on my blog of my practice for my GRE test, I am posting it as a separate blog because it's too long to count as a response. Please read her comments, my essay, and this response. I believe in equal opportunity, we should all have the chance at an education.

Love you lots!
-Wildrose

Thank you for the feedback. I was mainly looking at the content, but the grammatical issues are important as well. On the GRE they are also tasting for grammatical. I already new about the possessive noun rules, I just did not correct them because you don't get that opportunity to do so on the test either.

I'll have an opportunity to post many of these before September.

Anyway, the Mad Cow disease is not as far fetched as you would think. My degree is in Environmental Science and Policy, on the Policy track. One of the allowed classes on the list of requirements that will fulfill a certain elective requirement (there's an actual list of like ten classes that is all you are allowed to choose from) included a course I took in public health. This course introduced the CDC, foreign diseases introduced such as the Mad Cow disease, and policy and environmental implications of these issues, as well as other important concepts.

Foreign disease and resource trade are important factor's that are commonly looked over in the arena of environmental politics. My environmental policy professor was actually retired from a career working in the human health department of environmental policy.

As far as the suns rays being trapped in earth. I hear what you are saying in reference to how some may view that paragraph. If you read physics, it is actually the suns rays. They cut through the atmosphere, hit the earth and bounce off of certain items. These are only some of the rays that bounce back, some get absorbed into the ground or into plant life for photosynthesis. Of those rays, a portion will most always make back into the space outside the earth's atmosphere, just as some will almost always get trapped. There is one or two specific rays (I'll have to look them up) that are supposed to make it past the atmosphere and back into the space. When chemicals build up along the atmosphere that help trap the O3 into the atmosphere, the layer gets so thick those rays of concern tend to not be able to push through the layer because there speeds and sizes aren't fast enough. It is these particular waves that tend to cause the effects of global warming.

As far as the rate of heating or cooling, I should have referenced other sources. One popular source is the movie that was written and produced by that politician, what was the name of that movie??? I'll look that up as well. Anyway, the movie references charts that show a long term average of the earths warming capacity, and whether cycles. This data shows a consistent changing in the earths climate. It also shows a similar change occuring close to the end of different paleological periods, when life would cease and then regenerate on earth.

A professor, Dr. Philip Van Beyen, at the University of South Florida conducted a course that showed some similar data that also charted El Nino and La Nina cycle changes that appeared concurrently with the weather cycle changes.

As far as the oil being able to propogate itself. Oil is a liquid state. A common characteristic of a liquid state is that it is constantly transforming itself to fit whatever encases it, in other words it's sorroundings. Because of this, as plates move and rocks transform and the soil changes, this changes the shape of the ground that the oil has found as it's home as it formed over the years. When the shape changes, the oil transforms its own shaped to match that shape, hence it moves from place to place. BUT, how far and to hat extreme would ned the working of a geologist coupled with an engineer.

Lotsa love,
-Wildrose

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It is always helpful to provide links when posting a blog in response to something else so we know where to find it.

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~Fallon~

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't- A. France
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Please correct me if I am wrong, but they are giving out degrees in making environmental policy?

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I think they might, actually.

But, if not, public health administration, maybe?


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Eh, no thanks.

We need more experts making policy, not people with a degree in making policy.

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I'm gonna be making policies. Someday. But with my Master's in Public Health Administration, not Environmental policy. Also, after I actually work in public health...

I will be your expert. Just not today. :-)


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Ah, but your Masters in Public Health Administration is not a degree in governmental policy.

Therefore, your input will be of the expert type.

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That is true that it is not, but administration covers many facets of health care policy. If that's your avenue, good luck, if not, good luck in whatever avenue you choose.

Lotsa love,
Wildrose

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It appears that all of m organizations, my interest groups, and even the positions that I get hired for, out of all the positions that I apply for, end up revolving around making and analyzing policies. I'm not sure if I'll ever be interested in creating the policies. I love studying them, how to implement them, providing my opinion of them, analyzing them, etc, but drafting a full policy will definitely take more education and more experience. I might actually make one some day, but its a little scary thinking about it. Although it's all a majority rules process, you don't know how many might just blindly vote yes and so you have to take into account everything involved. What if you make a mistake that could make the entire system collapse? That would not be good. I would first want to make a policy that says that there should be elementary and high school education requirements that students learn how to create an basic policy analysis before they are old enough to vote on policies. Also, that teaches them that voting is more than just opinion, decisions should be backed by researching the topic as well as the policy. Voting is a critical process, kind of like public review of permits, etc. This is where common and critical errors are brought to light and repaired before they are implemented.

Lotsa love,
-Wildrose

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LOL!!! So how do you think an expert learns to make a policy before they become an expert???

Lotsa love,
-Wildrose

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experience in the field and not just a degree.

lame example: most the policies in effect at stores were made by people who have never worked in customer service. They know how to make policies, but lack the experience to make good ones.


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I've dedicated a new blog to respond to you :). It's called "Policy Makers in Stores"

Lotsa Love,
-Wildrose

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You don't become an expert at making policy. You become an expert in a field and, when you are an expert in a field, are then qualified to make policy FOR that field.

you're not an expert by virtue of graduating from college.

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Yes Ma'am. They give out degrees in making environmental policy, implementing environmental policies, researching environmental policies, monitoring components for the policies, campaigning for them, etc. They also make degrees in environmental law.

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First, that'd be 'sir' as I am male.

Second, such degrees exist because people think that if they spend money to get a degree in how to be an environmental activist, they will suddenly be an 'expert' at it.

That's different (and more dangerous, some might think) than being a scientist who studies the environment and then devises policies that reflect how things actually work with the environment.

Example: The difference between Al Gore screaming about wanting carbon credits (by the way, he owns the company that sells them....) and the scientists who study the environment (some are even distorted by Gore in his 'research') who say that he is wrong based on their decades of study.

That's the difference between someone who is an expert at policy and someone who is an expert in the field that policy is made for.

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There were no pics, I should not assume.

You are 100% correct, that is why the University of South Florida makes the degree a science degree as well as a policy degree. I am required to have a certain level of knowledge about Environmental Policy before I am allowed to have a degree on the policy track.

I believe that some of the information in the Al Gore movie is incorrect, or drawn out of proportion, however I do believe that global warming is a true and correct issue. Only because of the Environmental Timelines. It isn't as fast in progression as some might like us to believe, but since there has already been a significant amount of progression and there have already been significant consequences of the progression, the issue is coming into policy and gaining a large amount of attention.

Carbon credits are a good idea if you have the money for it. The program serves more of a psychological purpose than a working purpose for most people. A lot of the carbon credit programs in effect today sell the credits to devise clean environmental products. A lot of the products that create carbon emissions also create chemicals that are bad for human and wildlife health systems.

I advise researching other carbon credit systems besides just Al Gores. There are several systems in effect. Be sure to look for US owned and operated systems. Otherwise, the system could be delving into the political factors surrounding the Kyoto Protocol.

Lotsa love,
-Wildrose

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