Monkeys and climate change

My posts on this have been pretty sparse recently. I think I've felt like no one reads this, so I haven't bothered posting. However, the counter is at over 11,000, so obviously some people have at least come across the page! I found a disturbing statistic: Only 57% of Americans believe in climate change. I found this astonishing and pathetic. Maybe since I've been at university studying environmental science for the past 5 years, I tend to think that everyone knows what an INSANE problem climate change is. This is why I want to go into environmental policy: regulations need to be implemented as soon as possible. When I die, I want to be able to know that I've done as much as I could to make the world a better place.

Also, I stumbled across a documentary about people who keep monkeys as pets, but treat them like children. They put makeup on them, make them wear clothes, and take family portraits with them. I think this is really creepy and sad for the monkeys, because they should be with other monkeys. I'm really not an animal rights extremist or anything, but animals have such complicated emotional and physical needs that I really don't think its fair to keep them in the house like a baby human. The documentary is called "My Monkey Baby" if you can find it.
All this craziness in the world! But we can't lose hope. If anything, at least all this madness gives people like me something to be passionate about.

A few links

Ah, I've been bad about keeping this updated lately, I know. I'm graduating this semester from undergrad, so I've been busy/stressin' over what's next to come. In the meantime, I've finally found some links worth passing on:

Exxon Valdez photos: 20 years on, spilled oil remains from the National Geographic site (which is an awesome place to procrastinate and look at gorgeous photos, among other things)


A compelling plea against climate change from a 12 year old at Rio years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0

Check out parts 9-12 of this mini-documentary...it's about the ginormous island of trash (the size of Texas) in the Pacific Ocean. This is where our plastic garbage ends up.