I learned how most people might react to the sensitive and violent truth of post-colonial Africa. I made me feel some pride and disappointment as while there wasn't a reaction, it wasn't as profound as the one I was perhaps silently hoping for.

Truth be told my experiences while eating are sort of just limited to boredom. I have gotten something from meditation and mindfulness before, but I find it takes anywhere from 4 to 10 minutes for that to be possible. I tend to be a fast eater and just with my nature my mind ends up being filled with either thoughts of needing or wanting to be productive on my phone with Duolingo or something similar.

While this is simultaneously less than I expected, I think I'd like to plug that money back into where I get my food and invest that $1,500 in a small windowsill herb garden or something more extensive so that I can eat environmentally and economically.

Being as I don't pay for my electricity bill, nothing. But I find the peace of mind knowing I saved someone money priceless.

Where I currently live electricity is primarily generated by renewable energy sources. Those energy sources as with any modern day product use up a finite amount of resources we have on this earth that every day become increasingly scarce. In the short term, this benefits humans massively but risks their ability to survive at such prominent rates hugely. The environment we live within at the moment is harmed but not destroyed, used and bleeding. Animals within my local area are protected yet effected in ways unique to each energy source. Solar takes up space for creatures to graze and sometimes burrow or a food source that would normally lay beneath. Wind kills birds and disrupts echolocation among sea life when offshore. This said everything is relative and comparatively there are much dirtier methods that do much more to animals.

A sharing economy is one that I am such a ridiculous fan as it offers and entices both the most selfish and selfless parts of me. It offers me much more than that though, I am brought community, friendship, and moral development by practicing a sense of shared humanity. It offers my neighbors the same and much more than this, it offers them my cool stuff!

Locally, urban pollution from littering as well as waste from pets primarily pollute my currently local water systems. While there is likely to be some industrial pollution the extent of that is likely not as significant as civilian actions. Globally, there is much the same where seas are being overused and polluted. I can help the health of these systems through activism and local representation.

These numbers don't surprise me, as those figures represent the discretionary spending, not mandatory spending. Most of the US Government's mandatory spending goes towards welfare, not the US Military. But to engage the prompt, I would lower the military budget as well as the welfare budget. I would instead focus our spending on domestic, economic, and poltical security.