chapter 3 - Sweatin' fot Nothing

1.
People take elevator instead of walking the stairs, drive cars to their destination insead of walking. At the same time, they pay a great amount of money on health club, Stairmaster. Barlow thinks these "extra exercise" cause waste.

2.
In paragraph 5 says that people keep wasting energy that will led to the world run out of the energy and pollute the earth. In paragraph 6, he compars the past and the present. He takes chopping wood and running for examples. In the past, people chopped the wood or ran a long way because they had actual needs. But now, people do works beyond useless. In paragraph 7, writer says that we can get these exercises in our normal life, we don't have to pay extra money to get them.

3.
Let those people in health club's exercis generate the energy suport the eletricity of the club even supply the energy to the neighborhood. Use those extra exercise well.

4.
I think is waste. Because the writer writes that the life we have now, full of the basic waste. Compare with the past century, we waste energy and pollute the world in rapid way. In the end of the essay, he writes his solution of this problem in s humorous way, basically, he wants these people don't waste these energy.

5.
Yes, I agree. I think people should take every chances they can exercise in their lives, such as walk the stairs and walk to their destination. We shouldn't pay to walk up stairs.