Bevendre

toraokami303:

erthilo:

gearholder:

searchiebutt:

vivzie-pop:

wow. *slow clap* finally one of these I can get behind.

seriously guys, just donate and stop wasting water

it’s effecting the planet.

I also love deadmau5’s response to this

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“Indeed, there are many ways to look at the math. If it’s 5 million gallons of water wasted so far in three weeks, that’s a tiny amount compared to the 320 gallons of water used by an American household per day. Then, given 117,538,000 households according to the last census, that’s 37,612,160,000 gallons used in one day. Five million out of more than 37.5 billion gallons equals about .01 percent. 

That’s literally close to nothing.” -thewire

"While the monetary donations are absolutely incredible. The visibility that this disease is getting as a result of the challenge is truly invaluable. People who have never before heard of ALS are now engaged in the fight to find treatments and a cure for ALS.” -io9

“As of Thursday, August 21, The ALS Association has received $41.8 million in donations compared to $2.1 million during the same time period last year (July 29 to August 21). These donations have come from existing donors and 739,275 new donors to The Association. ” -alsa

Bolding the part of this post I agree with and pasting over my reaction to another thing saying the ice challenge is bad.

“I don’t see how ice negatively effects the environment. It puts water that would otherwise be digested and turned into waste into your backyards, clean where it can be evaporated into part of the water life cycle again. Unless you are in an area currently experiencing a drought I fail to see the negative side.

I also don’t see how it negatively effects the charity? Most people are doing the ice part to call out their friends and family, while also donating money to the charity themselves. Ergo more people hear about the charity more money gets sent in and people use social media to continue what is essentially a free ad campaign for the charity.”

That’s kind of what’s been bugging me about the backlash to this challenge.  From elementary school we are taught that water cannot be ‘wasted’ in the long run.  It may be moved from a place where it is plentiful to a place where it is scarce, and vice versa, but it isn’t wasted.  Conservation of mass, energy, and the water cycle kind of rules that out.

Meanwhile, the challenge is bringing a lot of attention, and a fair bit of money to a good cause.