Taking, or attemping to complete a bioregional quiz is eye-opening. There are so many questions about local economy and the environment that most citizens could not answer. This lack of knowledge has lead to a lack of concern for the current economic and environmental crisis. In McKibben's podcast subtitled, "Eaarth", detail goes into explaining the correlation between the lack of citizens' awareness to the increasing need of environmental changes. For example, questions such as where food is grown to what species are extinct in relation to bioregion, stump the masses and warrant a cause for concern. McKibben being somewhat of an expert on Earth's growth and change over time, explained that while the population may be pondering a rescue for Earth's resources, there may not be enough time to think those ideas through before the resources run dry. Answering the questions on the bioregional quiz should not be a difficult task; however, the basics of bioregional elements are not relevant to the everyday life of a large population of people and are not something that is considered important or detrimental to know. However, citizens really should begin to start answering the questions to really understand a bioregion and how each compartment of a bioregional infrastructure works. In essence, the summarization of these two individual sources of information would be that with the increasing lack of bioawareness, the Earth will continue to lose in the battle with technological and economical growth and expansion.
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