Don't Worry!!!!

People of today like to worry about everything, and I mean everything! My aunt watches the TV in such disgust at all the bad things that happen on the news. Everytime reporters report a death, suicide, rape, abduction, etc., she mumbles about how awful the world is. Yes, every death, suicide, rape, abuction, etc., is awful, but what about he good things people do; what about lives that were saved and not lost? Do we ever about the good events in life as much as the bad ones? So on that note, I am going to clarify about some myths that people love to panic about. Everyone of these facts were reported by a 20/20 anchor, John Stossel, so I hope you know I am not talking out of my... well, you know.



The first myth I want everyone in the whole world to stop panicing about is the big cancer scare. Every day we here about new cancer cases. But what happens if one looks at actual cancer stats? If one did, it would appear that only lung cancer has really inclined since the 1930's. Other cancers such as uterine, stomach, breast, and lukemia has all stayed realatively the same since the 1930's. And also keep in mind that some people today are living long enough to have cancer. So if anyone uses cancer to try to scare you, just think to yourself about how the actual number of cancer death rates has flatlined for the past eighty years.



Another myth I want everyone to stop worrying about is that our forrests are getting diminished by the day. In grade school, I heard frighting statistics about how all the forrest lands won't be around in the next 40, 50, or sixty years. I remember actually going home and wondering about how the inevitable day that no more forrests will be around. But what I heard wasn't actually true. Today, the United States has 747 million acres of forrest. In 1920, we had 725 million acres of rainforrest. So in actuality, forrests are not actual getting cutdown, but are actually growing. The main reason for the increase of forrest is that farmers are five times more efficent, which means farms are smaller and forrests have replaced the unwanted agriculture farmers once had. And to be quite honest simply cutting down trees isn't going to deplete a forrest. For example, if people were to vanish off the face of the earth, every big city, no matter how paved it is, is going to turn into a forrest. Only problem of deforrestation has been in under developed countries where an increase population has caused and increase in food demand.

And one of the last myths I want to debunk is that the United States is getting overwhelemed of trash. This is simply not true. The whole trash crisis got started when a barge tried to dump out trash in North Carolina, but didn't get accepted there. When the barge arrived at the location is what suppose to go to in the first place, New Orleans, it didn't get accepted there either because of all the bad publicity surrounding it. In actualality, there is more than enough land to dispose our trash. According to Jeremy O'Brien, a member of the Solid Waste Association of North America, we have enough land to last for thousands of years. If you can believe this, land fill owners actually compete for our trash. Garbage crisis? Hardly not.

To end my blog, I want to answer the one big question about why would anyone want to scare us into believing in this myths. The answer is money. Associations make money off our fears. People watch the news because hearing about a murder is much more interesting than hearing about how a local school donated food to a local pantry. Think about it, would an organization get money donations if it tried to convince you that there is no problem actually happening? Of course not. I think the one thing you should learn from this is to stop worrying about what people are telling you and actually research what is actually true.