I am so glad that we watched An Inconvenient Truth. In today's society Global Warming or Global Climate Change or Global Climate Disruption is a highly prevalent issue that was human induced. The majority of citizens in our country are contributors to this global altering problem, yet they don't understand the ramifications of their actions. Global climate disruption as seen through our reading and through the movie is supported by all but a few scientist, yet I don't think that the common man knows all the results of this. Today there is a huge greenwashing campaign, and like we have discussed in class, its the popular choice to be green, but do people really understand what it means to be green and what might happen if we don't change our ways? Look at situations like Hurricane Sandy or the droughts that are plaguing the West. I think everyone needs to know the inconvenient truth that we caused these events and more like it are coming. Everyone needs to understand the ramifications of our actions. I am a huge supporter of public education of this this issue that rapidly changes with new data. Even the data in the movie was inconsistent with today's data and I believe all citizens need to be educated on this issue - and so does our President. He recently released a rollout plan for a new government website that is aimed at presenting climate change data in a visually appealing manner. I highly suggest you read the article from the New York Times that describes the site in detail that I've posted below, as well as the site itself which is also posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/us/politics/white-house-to-introduce-climate-data-website.html
climate.data.gov
When he chooses to speak about it, President Obama is indeed inspiring. Considerably more sustained action will be needed, however, actually to make a change of the magnitude we need to make.
ReplyDeleteAbbey, I felt the same way when we watched An Inconvenient Truth in class. I think you're right in saying that people need to be better educated on the matter because there is still a huge percentage of people in our world that don't understand the true ramifications of our actions on Earth.
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