MORE THAN A BAG!

More Than A Bag

Plastic could be anywhere; in the air, in the water, in the landfill, in your food, and in your stomach. If you think fish and the small animals are the only organisms that get affected by all the plastic we produce, then you are wrong. When you go out to eat lunch, you might think that what you ate are fish and chips, but maybe the fish is contaminated with BPA, a dangerous substance that are in fish, who consume small plastic particles. Can you imagine if you are eating plastic? We are eating plastic!

Eating plastic and BPA might not cause you trouble now, but I am a hundred percent sure that by the time you reach 60 years old, you will regret it. At this rate, we are using a lot of plastic wastefully. Imagine, where can we keep it? Plastic lasts for a lifetime or even more. By “ a lifetime”, I literally really mean it! Imagine, from when you were born until the day you die, plastic will never disappear. It is quite possible that maybe the plastic you see in the ocean are actually older than you are. JUST A FACT.

Wise way to spend money on comet landing

Landing a space probe on the comet costs a total of about 1.4 billion Euros. In our opinion, we don’t support this decision, because with that much money, we can help poor people who are in need. Money that the European Space Agency spent on the spacecraft is far less important for humanity than attempting to find organic molecules on a comet. In what way would this benefit humanity when billions are hungry and lack adequate drinking water.

To me, this is a very irresponsible way to spend money in a world where almost 1 billion people are starving and undernourished. The cost of landing a space probe on a comet is the same cost needed to buy 4 Airbus A380 aircrafts, the largest commercial aircraft in the world. With the Airbus, we could distribute supplies and aid needy countries and to people who are impoverished or are lack access to food or clean drinking water. We could also spend the  money on food and vaccinations in countries like Africa where millions are dying of diseases like HIV.

The cost of the mission is estimated to be approximately 3.50 euros per person in Europe from 1996-2015. I think that if we used these money to support people in developing country it will be enough to feed them for a fair amount of time, and would save many lives from starvation.