"The Machine" was a great reading in the sense of how relevant it is to what is going on today with what is being emitted into our air/atmosphere. It would seem as if we are slowly poisoning our air supply in certain parts of the world as we continue to emit harmful chemicals and pollution from cars and factories. This may be a piece of scientific fiction of some sort, but in the many years to come this way of living that has been described in the story line and what has happened to the air and the rest of the planet could become a potential reality due to this pollution that can be seen in many of the larger cities around the world. The biggest take-up that I understood from this story is that our air supply will become limited to nonexistent if we continue to emit harmful chemicals or contain things in such a way that if they were to be realesed they would be harmful and could possibly kill hundreds of people. In the way that the people live in isolation and are picked to give birth or what not made me think of a lot of films that have given an insight to what tripe of society we could be living in in years come. When reading this short story I also found it interesting that, I believe it is the main character Vashti who would look at things that were once loved or admired as a part of the world's natural beauty and would simply say "no ideas here" and look away. In this story they have come to believe that they have advanced as a race/ society, which in many ways they probably have, but the. Again there are also many other ways in which they have not moved forwards or backwards because they have the same mindset to use up all of the natural materials that have now caused them to live in an underground city because they no longer have any fresh air to breathe.
When reading the article "Don't look away now, the climate crisis needs you" by Naomi Klein, I couldn't help but think about the ways that we do avoid the impact of climate change and how it is affecting our world. She mentions how she would avoid it by not wanting to believe that it is really happening and wouldn't read any serious article that gives real evidence and I agree with how scary of a thing it can be. We see all these movies that give a glance into the future if something big enough were to happen that it would almost completely destroy our world and its atmosphere to where it wouldn't be livable anymore. In addition to how she avoids it, I thought about how I often avoid or simply toss aside the evidence that global warming is a real thing and if things were to continue getting worse we may ed up in a world such as the one seen in the film
Water World, or something like the one seen in the film
Mad Mad Fury Road in which there is enough radiation in the air to cause mutations but people can still live on the Earth's surface. Klein also mentions that because we have long and cold winters doesn't mean that global warming is real and hints that this isn't the case, for just because we have long cold winters doesn't change the fact that our summers are reaching new levels on the thermostat, which are possibly causing things such as the ice caps to melt quicker than the cold is refreezing them. We do many things that seem like they are going to help our climate, but it is only another way for people to look away from the damage that has been done and continues to get worse because nothing has actually been done in order or make better changes to our climate, what the majority of this article is about. We keep trying to think of ways that will help our world but nothing has actually been done or started to begin moving in the right direction.
The third article that reads as a letter to the author's granddaughter in the future was a fun read just as much as it is serious in its message to others about using up all of the world's resources that will make it harder to live in in the many upcoming years. As he continues to apologize to his daughter in how they have been careless about pretty much everything, there are other times where he simply goes "Oops!" In order to show how careless we have been when living in this world/society that we have created for ourselves that is so demanding of multiple resources and natural materials. This letter, however is so important for people to realize that this is what's going on today as we continue to grow and develop new things using these natural materials or creating new ones that are harmful to the environment and it's well being. His four year old daughter may not read it until much later, but, as he mentioned, others can read it today and realize what is going on in the world and how it is being affected.
