1. Modern people tend to do exercise to stay in shape. They are in fitness clothes, shoes and drive their cars to gym, not willing to climb up stairs. They are wasting both energy and money.
2. People in the past might chop down wood or run a long way because they needed fuel or wanted to get somewhere. On the other hand, in this modern society, people do such things just to fit into new pants or to develop the biceps. Also, we have different kinds of exercise equipment, and we labor at them while gong exactly nowhere.
3. Michael Barlow has a solution that she wants people who works out on exercise equipment create useable energy. As they burn off their calories, and hook up engines as well as drive shafts that will rotate turbines and generate electricity. Let those exercisers light the health club itself. In addition, she thinks that the clubs can store excess energy and sell it to nearby shop owners at low rates. What’s more, the health clubs could have energy nights where singles get together to pedal, chat, and swap phone numbers.
4. I think “Entropy” is the main subject of this essay. Barlow thinks something wrong with the fitness mania that has swept the Western World is “Entropy.” In this essay, the writer is trying to figure out why there are so many people do exercise while polluting the planet earth. In the last paragraph this essay, Barlow also mentions that we cannot afford much more entropy, if we forget that, we might as well be rodents in cages, running into the night.
5. I agree with Barlow’s thesis. I think it is a cool idea because as people exercise, they can produce the energy by themselves. It’s not only good for healthy but also eco-friendly.
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