A Whole New World

This week I attended a one- quantify viewing for a movie called Derby Baby. It was a documentary film on women who tactical spelleuver roll derby. It was a small screening in a town called Wilmette. Over the past year I pass been introduced to the culture and cosmos of roller derby by my girlfriend. I need been able to experience some(prenominal) an(prenominal) divers(prenominal) events related to the culture, but this movie brought a different demeanor to the culture of roller derby. I never looked at the sport or hobby as a culture but have realized what a culture it is for many people.The clothing that is worn, the love, the passion, the life, the commitment these atomic number 18 all so different that my lifestyle. People who love roller derby commit their gets to it, their free time their friends are all in roller derby or volunteer. The sport is volunteer ran, the games, the practices, the players, no one is paid for what they do. Not many cultures of sports are si milar this, which makes them very unique. I used to find myself judging the people in roller derby, assuming they were all come ingoing 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 can bring out a different side of them and a place where the outgoing can be more brainsick and exciting. Roller derby is not just a game for entertainment it is a way of life for many. The level of commitment depends on the individual. A player not only plays but volunteers, joins a charge within the league, coaches, trains, parties, they do it all. You can also have a love for derby and not play you can be a referee or a fan who is highly involved. The possibilities are never ending. It is a passion that many do not know about, like many other cultures it is time lag to be found.A whole new worldThe world has gone far from what it was a degree centigrade ago. As the world grows ageing, things on it, arou nd 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 major human action mechanism sectors industry, energy, transportation and agriculture. (B Goldstein, 2002)Humans have been blinded by the dramatic changes and improvements on their ways of living brought about by technological advancements, industrialization 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 mask of this whole new world, we will come up that what we actually have is a set of whole new pollutants- the gravest threat to human health.In the dickens self-supporting studies conducted in California relative to the health hazards of exposure to the vulgarism in diesel emissions, researchers has released alarming gist figures. In 2005 half a million of work and school absences, and at least 1,100 premature deaths were caused by breathing 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 carbon black. soot particles come directly from the tailpipe of engines and contribute to the unhealthy levels of particulate matter (PM) (UCS p.20).The fine particulate matter lodges like tiny razor blades deep in human lungs according to Kevin Hamilton, who have led one of the two studies in California. Particulate pollution as Don An assembly line 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 development is hundreds of different chemicals from the diesel soot sulfates, ammonium, nitrates, elemental carbon, condensed organic compound, carcinogenic compounds, arsenic , selenium cadmium and zinc. If one thinks that he can get absolve of this pollution 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 solving this problem include basically replacing the old equipment with new ones. The sad thing about this is that most of these equipment last for 20 to 30 years. That would mean human beings 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 mensuration 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 interpreted for granted.The California Air Resources Board reported that soot is responsible for 70% of the risk of cancer from mobile toxics. No one is safe and exempted fro m the deadly effects of diesel pollution, especially those who are living in soot-polluted areas like California. In fact, the 26% increase in mortality rate in such 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 figure 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 altering 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 obviously have overlooked the long term health effects of these processes.There is no escape to industrialization- the world, being gover ned 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 bewilder 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 lost is lost forever. Let us not lose what we still have today.WORKS CITEDWilson, Janet. 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