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How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?
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Eric Webb on 15 Jul 11Define tipping point.
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Sam Gladfelter on 29 Aug 11Tipping point the "redline" that the author was referencing.
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Kwe Parker on 29 Aug 11Tipping point- when you have exceeded the maximum amount of something in order to sustain it
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Jessica Jasitt on 29 Aug 11The point when a series of smaller events forces a person to do something that they wouldn't normally do.
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Justine Parks on 29 Aug 11when all our resources have reached the bare minium, the point where good turns to bad.
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Tyler Good on 29 Aug 11the point where things dramatically change
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Mike Heilman on 29 Aug 11Tipping point would be when the human population scale and the wildlife scale is being tipped more towards the human population side
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Jared Williamson on 29 Aug 11A point where everything is on the verge of going wrong.
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Alison B on 29 Aug 11the point when the bad things bulid up so much that people realize that things need to change.
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Connor Nixdorf on 29 Aug 11The point at which society has crossed that line of growth, climate, natural resources, and poulation.
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Lauren McNamara on 29 Aug 11The point at which a lot of little changes cause a major change.
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joel culp on 29 Aug 11Tipping point - when something is maxed out to the point where it is no longer sustainable.
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Andrew Velez on 29 Aug 11The point when something minor or unnoticed becomes very significant in a short period of time.
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sarah gardner on 29 Aug 11I think the tipping point is when everything changes. When all the little things that have been building up finally push everything over the top and everything gets worse.
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Brooke Elicker on 29 Aug 11The tipping point is something that finally happens after a bunch of small things builds up to something major. It is a point where something finally snaps or topples over and makes a bigger conflict.
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Spencer Ortmyer on 29 Aug 11Tipping point is when something happens that either effects a lot of people or it's something that everybody knows about or needs.
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Katie Loughran on 29 Aug 11it is when problems build up and become so extreme that at the tipping point it builds up and eventually reaches the highest point.
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Katie Komar on 29 Aug 11Tipping point is when something as reached it's limit and can no longer put up with anything else. Once something reaches this point usually a drastic change occurs very quickly. (i.e. your fill up a glass, once the glass can no longer be filled it overflows)
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kelly epperson on 29 Aug 11the maximum point that leads to a downfall.
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Walker May on 29 Aug 11A point when a thing or place (earth) has reached a state of unbalance.
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Taylor Slusser on 29 Aug 11The point at which a bunch of smaller negative events build up into an even larger negative event
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Tori Gray on 29 Aug 11The point where everything has gone wrong, causing people to change thier ways in order to get thier life back to the way it was before.
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Jenna G on 29 Aug 11Tipping point is when something builds up so much that it "tips over" due to trying to handle an overabundance of something.
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katie adams on 29 Aug 11The point at which things have been pushed to capacity and the effect will be a dramatic change
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Hayley Harrold on 29 Aug 11when something so dramatic happens that forces people to realize that tragedy has struck.
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Rachel Oerman on 29 Aug 11Tipping point is like when the natural rescource balance is upset by us taking things from them, and also when we crossed the redline that makes everything equal.
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Dalton Dietrich on 29 Aug 11When our world becomes so unbalanced, that it becomes a virtually unsolvable problem
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Tyler Nelson on 29 Aug 11The point when we have gone to far, when something can no longer handle the capacity, the point that we as humans may have very well reached with the Earth.
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ian jara on 29 Aug 11sound like it means the last possible thing to use, the tipping point, like its the last item possible
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Mason Gilbert on 29 Aug 11The tipping point is when no turning back becomes blatent. We have crossed over into a different realm and we are stuck in the world we have created.
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Teslin Kralowetz on 29 Aug 11The tipping point is when we have used the maximum amount of natural resources that we can to still live sustainably and things begin to go wrong because we have pushed these limits.
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Julia Ochiobi on 29 Aug 11The point where something reaches the absoulte maximum before spilling over.
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jamilsa sanchez on 29 Aug 11It takes something really dramatic to happen in order for people to be forced to realize that a tragedy can happen.
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Jenna Veverka on 29 Aug 11Tipping point is when everything is maxed out and the rest is on the edge of decreasing.
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Dorian Campisi on 29 Aug 11The single point at which things must do one of two things- change for the better, or change for the worse.
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kenny gross on 29 Aug 11It is the point when people finally realize that they have gone to far but often times it comes too late
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Lexi Slapp on 29 Aug 11The tipping point is the point when everything is at it's worst and everyone realizes a change needs to be made.
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Summer Atkins on 29 Aug 11Tipping point is when something goes wrong and causes people to change their ways.
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tom holder on 29 Aug 11The tipping point is what happens when people outway the earths recources.
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Nathan Ashbaugh on 29 Aug 11The tipping point is when the way we live finally catches up to us, and we realize we have to change the way we are living.
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Brandon Becker on 29 Aug 11When we use too much of the resources we need then when we use them all up everything falls apart
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Nathan Ashbaugh on 29 Aug 11A tipping point is when all the negative things we are doing to the earth catches up with us and we have to change the way we are living.
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Dalton Dietrich on 29 Aug 11a time when the world becomes so unbalanced that it becomes an almost unsolvable problem
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Jordan Christy on 30 Aug 11Tipping point is where the effects of any change will lead to a downfall or tragedy.
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olivia rehman on 30 Aug 11The tipping point is the point at which a series of small changes has reached enough momentum to cause a great change. More simply when a balance has shifted and changed good to bad.
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Megan Lundy on 30 Aug 11Tipping point is the point when small changes lead to larger changes that could have a great im pact on the earth.
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Steph Starr on 30 Aug 11lots of small changes that all lead up to a big, significant change
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Steven Sauers on 30 Aug 11when somrthing changes alot and gets people to realize what's happening
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Sydney Strine on 30 Aug 11Tipping point is when a certain line is crossed that redefines our population.
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Adam Zech on 30 Aug 11The tipping point is when there is a change due to a build up of something.
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Ashley Mullinix on 30 Aug 11Tipping point is when something begins to change dramtically.
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Cory Heathcote on 30 Aug 11The point where there is something that happens that dramatically effects the world.
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Aaron Diffenderfer on 30 Aug 11When the Earth goes from balanced to unbalanced.
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Alyssa Mazzei on 30 Aug 11Tipping point is when things have built up so much that there is a dramatic change because of it.
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Alan Pritchard on 30 Aug 11The tipping point is when one final action such as using up a natural resource causes everyone's standard of living to diminish.
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Davon Crowell on 30 Aug 11Tipping Point- The point where all things are at their peak and just begin to fall or go down hill after a period of time.
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Jesse Richardson on 30 Aug 11Jesse & Robby: We feel like the tipping point is when we as a people start using our resources faster than we are reproducing, causing a drastic spike in things such as prices.
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McKenna Harter on 30 Aug 11tipping point is when something goes from not so bad to extreme all at once or the "redlines" that the author was refering too.
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Lauren Burkhart on 30 Aug 11A tipping point is when something is at it's peak and is about to drastically change for the worse
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Tybria Wright on 30 Aug 11the point were we realize that this is a dramatic situation
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Eric Murphy on 30 Aug 11The point at which a bunch of small events that are negative turn into a larger event that is even worse then the previous, smaller, events.
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Bao Nguyen on 30 Aug 11tipping point is pushing the limit on something.
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Malachi Smith on 30 Aug 11The point where everything runs out and there is nothing we can do about it. When this happens the world will basically come to an end
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Alan Pritchard on 30 Aug 11The tipping point is when when an issue becomes so great that everyone falls along with it
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“When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required.”
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Do you agree with this statement? Can you think of an example of a problem that is so big in your life where it was just easier to deny the problem because dealing with it was too much work? Explain.
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I go straight from school, to cross country practice, and then to work. I got home last thursday and did not even consider doing my homework; all I wanted to do was shower and go to bed. Humanity is me, and the environmental issues are the homework.
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And I agree.
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Yes i agree. A perfect example is the Exxon oil spill. They simply hid the problem by making all the oil sink, but its still all in the ocean. The problem hasnt gone away, it just disapeared
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I do agree with this statement because when i worry about something that is hard to deal with i try not to think about it to much so im not stressed out.
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I agree with this statement because although I have not personally experienced it, I know that people who have been in debt go through this. They become so far in debt that they just deny the fact that they owe so much money and continue to live the way they have been, which in the end just puts themeselves in more debt.
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Today i have school and right when i get home i will leave for work and wont get home until really late. I wont really want to do my homework, Humanity is me and environmental problems are my homework
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I agree with this statement. There has been a problem in my life that was much easier not dealing with than dealing with it. This was driving when I first moved. It was much easier to ask someone for a ride and now I have to deal with gas and repairs.
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yes i agree with this statement. it describes most things in the world. we would rather just deny and ignore the problems rather than stop, think, and change things
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I agree with this statement, denial is the natural response. This happens to me when I have something big to do and tell myself that I will do it later, but I know well enough that I do not plan to get it done. I deny the fact that I need to do it, and just let the problem build.
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Yes I do agree with this statement because the longer you wait to do something, usually the worse it gets. For example when I have homework, I know I can do it as soon as I get home however I put it off until the last minute, which causes me to panic and get stressed.
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Sometimes I will procrastinate doing my homework until it's like 11 o'clock at night and then I'll end up just not doing it at all because it seems like too much work. Kind of like how environmental problems are a lot of work to fix so humanity is denying the problem or procrastinating the solution.
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I agree, sometimes after school instead of doing my work that could raise my grade I'd rather sleep or do something more interesting.
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I agree with this statement. I was fighting with someone extremely important to me in my life and it had become so extremely hard to deal with that I had to just walk away and get out of the situation because it was just way too hard to try to work things out.
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Yeah i completly agree, jared's example is on point. Too often its just easier to hide problems rather then to actually solve them. I feel most people would rather deny whats infront of them for freat that the truth is too large to handle.
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Yes I agree with the statement, for me sometimes it's easier to forget about something or deny it so that it is not in my mind constantly stressing me out.
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I agree with that statement, procrastination always make things worse. When my room gets really messy instead of just cleaning it I deny that it's actually dirty and then it gets dirtier and dirtier until i face the fact that i need to clean.
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I do agree because several things in our country could have been handled better such as Hurricane Katrina. All of the signs were there to tell people that the hurricane would wipe out the state but because it was such an uncommon and unbelievable thing people chose not to evacuate and the goverment didnt prepare them for such a natural disaster.
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I definitely agree with this statement. When my mom and my stepdad got divorced I had convinced myself that it wasn't going to change much, but in reality it had already changed my whole family and home life. It was easier to ignore it than to have to deal with all of the new responsibilities and new changes.
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Yes i agree with this statement. When ever i am stressed out or worried about something it is easier to get it out of my mind and think about something else. Trying not to think about the problem helps me believe that maybe i dont have to deal with it, when in reality, you really do.
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I think this is very true. I know I have done that with things at work. Sometime I will have over a week to check things out and get them handled because they are such big problems. Sometime I just don't think about it and pretend that they never need to be done. Then come the day before its due and I have to rush and it just makes more problems.
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Yes I agree, an example of this statement is instead of admitting that my room is a mess and cleaning it I chose to deny that is a mess and just leave it the way it is. That way it is less work to do.
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I can agree with that statement. Denial is may times easyer than facing reality, this holds true with death. It is easyer to continue to think that a person is alive then face all the problems and emotional distress that are associated with death.
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Yes I agree with the statement, I know for me I have forgotten things that were problem because I really do not want to have the stress of them stressing me out.
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I agree with this statement. When something stresses us out, we just want to ignore the problem or the cause and hope that it resolves itself. In my life, this could be true for driving. Sometimes I feel that it is so much easier for me to just ask someone for a ride than to get my liscense, do the driving myself and worry about gas and rapairs.
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I agree with the statement because it happens everyday. Whether it's small things like procrastinating with homework or bigger ideas like the climate change that's happening. People do not want to deal with it so we put it off and deny any possible change or solution.
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Yes, I agree with this statement. I don't believe that I have been through this sort of denial, but I know that when some people have family issues or are in major debt and cannot find a job, they deny thier issues instead of facing them and fixing family problems or finding a way to get out of debt.
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Bullying is a big example of that. It happens so much that everybody just turns a shoulder thinking that they are doing nothing wrong. When in turn they are doing things very wrong. Denial is sometimes a very bad thing.
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I agree with this statement because it's only natural to hide or deny the biggest problems we're faced with. With my ex, I didn't want to believe he had moved on...to my good friend, so I kept trying to talk to him like everything was okay.
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As a teenager this statement describes my life. I would be so much easier to just ignore my responsibilities and problems. But you cant do that because then you are left with a mess.
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I agree with this statement mostly because I do it myself more often then i would like. I tell myself I will eventually get to the work I have to do but I always seem to put it off until it's too late.
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yes i agree , and something that i found easier not to deal was changing my cars flat tire because it was too late night and i was tired from wrestling practice
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I agree with the statement because it is something we all do. When we don't want to deal with a certain situation or problem we tend to just ignore it until the problem is much bigger than if we had just dealt with it to begin with. Most people do this daily with their school work. They don't feel like doing it when they have the time so instead they wait until five minutes before the class starts struggling to finish it before the class starts.
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Yes I completely agree with the statement. I personally prefer to deny problems until I can find a way to approach them without creating more chaos for myself. Like when it comes to school work for example. If I dont understand, I don't do the entire project and then ask for clarification. If I did that, I might end up doing the project all over again.
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I agree with the statement because it is human nature to sometimes be lazy toward big issues rather than just get up and deal with it. For example, if someone hurts someone verbally and the other person gets upset, the usually convince themselves that the person being upset deserved it or is being unreasonable, where the should just apologize.
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yes I agree. when my best friend passed away 3 years ago I didn't want to accept the fact that he was gone. I would yell and get really mad at people who would try and tell me he was dead. I was stuck in denial.
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Yes, i think of bullying i had a problem with it and it took longer than it should have to relize and do something about it
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I do agree with this statement. A good example of this is oil. It is inevitable that we will run out of it, we just don't know when. But we still use it at an alarming rate.
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Yes, I agree with this statement because it is much easier to deny the bad things in life than to deal with them. An example of this is people with addictions, it is much easier for them to deny that they have a problem. If they would face reality and fix it, then the world would be a better place.
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I agree with this statement, we deny any problems that are going on when we should be fixing the problem instead of letting it grow.
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I totally agree with the statement. When I am arguing with someone and it gets too fusturating I tend to give up and walk away because it is to much to handle.
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I agree with this statement because it is much easier to deny a problem than to face it. An example of this is people with addictions, they usually deny the fact that they are addicted. We should face the problems we have instead of denying them.
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Yes i agree because i have done it before because its sometimes is easier to take the quicker less stressful way out.
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I definitely agree with this statement. The thing that comes first to my mind is health problems. Sometimes they seem so overwhelming and impossible to fix that you don't even feel like trying. In the end, however, like the environment, you can't ignore them forever, and you eventually are forced to find a solution.
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Yes I agree with this statement, an example is when I need to do my laundry. I continue to put it off & put it off until I have no clean clothes left. I would have been in denial that it needed done & the result is I ran out of clean clothes.
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I agree because when I have a lot of homework, sometimes I decide that it'd be easier to just not do it.
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I agree, sometimes the easiest thing to do is to just deny the problem. We see this all the time. Wether it is a clogged drain, or a large amount of homework after a hard day, we tend to put it off rather then deal with it.
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I agree with this statement, because many times people deny things they do not want to be true, similar to how people make up things they do want to be true. While people do this often, the most common "person" to deny something would be big companies that have something to hide. When companies find out that their products have a defect, they try and hide it, or deny it by making excuses or not even owning up to it, because they'd rather ignore it than fix it.
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I really agree with this statment. You can deny something but it will always be there no matter what. People put off a problem longer and longer, and it just keeps growing and growing. Just simple things like when you were little and break something and didnt tell you parents. They were more upset when they found out about it a lot later.
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I agree with this quote because sometimes the largest problems are the ones unsolved. Most of the time I and other people just solve the little problems first, hoping that the larger one may work itself out.
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I agree with the statement. Individuals are in denial becasue they feel that it's easier to set their problems aside instead of confronting them. This can be seen in my own life in school, at home, and outside of school. Things like putting off homework or assignements doesn't make them any easier later.
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yes i agree with this statement 100% because people always want to think that everything will just wirk themselves out when in reality that does not always happen. I have had many problems that i just wanted to ignore and deny that it was a problem because I thought it would just go away but I realized the longer I wait to solve it the bigger the problem becomes.
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Yes i agree with this statement. There are lots of things in my life and other peoples lives that they dont think about. We try to deny the problem and stay away from it until it is too late.
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Jesse & Robby: We agree with this statement. The death of a loved one is something that one could be in denial about. Thinking that they are going to come back or they are only gone for a little bit.
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Yes i agree. people don't like dealing with things so we tend to just put it off. lIke if you know the dishes should be cleaned by a certain time and you wait untill the next day the response will be there are more dishes from before.
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I only want to deal with my problems and don't take the time to deal with the big problems that effect evertbody.
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I agree with this statement. In my life it happens when I become busy with many bigger events or duties cause me to put off or forget about smaller events or duties.
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I agree with this statement. Look at the BP oil spill they may have capped it off, but noboby is watching it to make sure it won't burst again. Why are they ignoring it because all they wanted to do was get people to shut up about there "mistake" they think that it's too much work to make sure that an incident like this doesn't happen again.
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I agree with statement because sometimes it's just easier for me to sleep in and not worry about going to school because I don't have to deal with homework, teachers and ect...
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I agree with this statement because I personally have dealt with a situation like this. Over a year ago I started to experience back pain but instead of dealing with it I decided to ignore my pain so I could finish out the rest of the basketball season. Eventually the pain became unbearable and I was forced to give up basketball along with all the other sports I played. I was in denial about my back pain and it eventually caused a response that was hard to accept.
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I agree with this statement. Whenever I'm stressed about something I'd rather put it off then think about it. Sometimes it's easier to deny things then actually come to terms with what the problem it.
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There is a lot of truth to this statment. I couldn't even imagine a whole society changing this drastically. I always try to make things better with denial but in the end it doesn't matter because nothing can be changed. I deny putting off homework and procrastinating.
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I agree. A situation like this is the BP oil spill. They capped it off but there still isn't anyone mantaining it because they think that's doing too much. BP just wanted to cover up their problems.
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Because we are so used to the way we are living now it is going to be very hard to change our ways. For example we know that we need to slow down how quickly we are using our resources but instead we drive unnecessarily and run water too much
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Right now, global growth is using about 1.5 Earths.
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In the near future we will be figuring out how many planets there would need to be if everyone on the planet lived like you did. How many planets do you think it would take?
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3
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A good 2 or 3 planets because the population keeps growing and i take up alot of space
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If global growth requires the resources of 1.5 planet earths, then it will take 1.5 planets. However, you can't really have half of a planet, so 2 planets are needed.
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15.3 planets
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I think that it would take at the least 2 or three and at the mostr 4 or 5 because i use a lot of resources that other people around the world do not. and for every one in order to live my lifestyle would need so many more resources than we have available to us right now.
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I think that it would take roughly 2-3 planets. This is because I don't live sustainably.
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At least 5 planets
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I'm not sure how many planets it would take, I feel as though it would take close to 3.5 for some reason...
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2
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For now, two planets. But it will probably continue to increase.
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Alot.
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I think it would be 3-4 planets.
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I think 2 or 3, but it would continue to increase.
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I think I would need 3 plantes.
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I think maybe 4 or 5 planets.
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Probably about 1.5 Earths as well because I don't do much to live sustainably.
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I think it will take about 3-4 planets.
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I think it would take 3 planets.
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Now thinking about it in this way it would probably take 2 or 3 planets. Which is sad…
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2 planets
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About 4 maybe 3.5
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Last year in Global Studies our class figured out how many earths we would each need. The number was high and very shocking. I don't exactly remember the answer I got but it might have been somewhere around 5 planets.
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Hundreds of planets because everyone does not have a home,everyone does not own their own land and everyone does not live comfortably, so i think that in order for that to happen hundreds of planets would need to exist.
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Probably 2-3 planets
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I believe that we would need about 5-6 planets.
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3-5 planets in order to sustain human life as we know it.
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3.4% uses 30% of the energy...do the math and we are looking at 20-30 earths i would guess.
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A lot more than 1.5, possibly 5 or 6
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4 planets.
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I think it would take at least five planets, because of the rapid population and all of the other needs for humans and animals.
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i think the we are going to end up using 3 planets maybe even more because population is not going to just double it might even triple or more
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I would say about 2-3 planets.
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I f everybody lived the way I do, It would probably be the same 1.5.
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I think it would take a few planets. At the moment we do not need an excessive amount such as a hundred because the earth does provide a lot of resources but we are using more than we have available to us so it will require at least 2 or 3 earths for what we use and live sustainably.
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A lot more than 2 or 3 maybe even something like 8 or 9 or even more
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I would say hundreds because the rate currently does not assume that the many billions of people on earth live like we do, but much more simply. If everyone on earth lived like we do, the amount of planets would be much higher than 1.5.
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3
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I think it would take 4 or 5 planets because poppulation is increasing so rapidly and it would most likely continue to increase at ths rate.
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For everyone to live the same lifestyle as we do there would probably have to be 10 to 15 planets.
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3 or 4 planets.
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There isnt a specific number because they will continue to increase
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i think 4 or 5
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Probably 2 or 3 planets
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Easily 2 or 3, but if we stay at this rate we will soon need even more.
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It depends on if we don't destroy this planet first, but i would say 3 planets. If everyone lived like I do, this planet would be destroyed.
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Seeing as we use 1.5 Earths today & that's with the U.S. using 30% of the world resources with only 4.3 of the population. I think we would need at least 5 Earths for the entire population to live sustainably. But I think eventually we would grow more & more & use more & more resources & we would still need more room & resources. So in reality we would need an endless amount of Earths for our civilization to continue.
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At least 5 planets
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I think it would take about 4 planets.
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Jesse & Robby: We would say that it would take about 4 planets equal to ours.
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I think it would take like 5 or 6 plants to suport everybody if we kept living the way we do.
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At the rate that individuals are consuming resources, taking up space, etc, 3 plantets are most likey needed in order to allow all people to live sustainably and at the quaility of life that we do.
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We would probably need around five planets.
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We would deffiantly need at least 6 because there are many people in the world
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Because, the US has about 4.3% of the Earth's population and uses 30% of its yearly resources, with all of the countries behaving in this same manner, we would easily exceed 100% of the earth's resources. I dont know how many earths we would need but it would be many - maybe 10 earths.
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I think it would be 2-3.
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I believe that it would take at lease 2 more planets.
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I think it would take atleast 5 earth's for the entire world to live like we do.
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Probably 2 planets now but we'll need more in the future.
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Now i would say 2-3 planets. However, with the growth of the population it may soon be 4.
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