Blog Assignment #3: Climate Change
We can hear warnings every day from different studies about our sick world. They talk about the catastrophic consequences by cars/driving and flying, poisonous smoke, dangerous productions, toxic outlets etc. This isn’t something new; we have heard these warnings for a long time. Still haven’t we changed our habits so we can be able to see a better world. Why has the realisation about the climate change been so slow?
The first reason for the slow realisation, and the biggest in my opinion, is money. Money controls most of the people in the world. If the rich owner of an industry can choose between two ways of production, one cheap but not good for the climate and one more expensive, I think he/she almost always choose the first alternative. If a driver can choose between petrol and ethanol I think it’s the price which decides what he choose. We can choose ecological food but the price will often make the mind up what we buy. Unfortunately, I think money make us forget the climate change.
As a second reason for the unhurried awareness, I want to mention the “It doesn’t happen to me” thoughts. Some of the biggest changes in the world’s climate and environment can’t easily be shown. It can be a long way from here geographical or it can be a long way in time. I think many people are here and now, they don’t think so much about what happens in 100 or maybe 1000 years. They can discuss about or even demonstrate against things in their neighbourhood, for example if the community has decided to take away a village school or a regain establishment. It’s not that easy to engage people in things happening far away or things happening in another generation. I think it’s easy to say” It’s such a big problem, it doesn’t matter what I do”.
My third and last reason for the sluggish understanding about climate change is the people in power. I think they have a big role in the worlds climate change. If they had really brought this catastrophe facts of the sick world on the agenda and done something about it I’m sure it would have been different. I think that most people are aware of money and the financial things in the world and I think that depends on that the people in power has made it so important. If they had done the environment to a big and important question from the beginning I’m sure we had had another world today.
All the facts about our sick world are really depressing. But even if we are slow in realize the big problem I think we can do something about it. I hope and think that peoples hunger after more and more money will decrease. We will value other things more like fresh air, green grass, a rich animal life etc. My hope is also that people can take care of each other. I don’t mean just the people in the family or in the neighbourhood, I mean to take care of each other round the world. I also hope and think that the people in power will open their eyes and do big things for the environment. In the end I would like to write a sentence I heard for some days on the radio, “One can’t do all but everybody can do something”. The meaning in the sentence is for me that everybody is important; everybody can do something for the environment. So let’s start!
We can hear warnings every day from different studies about our sick world. They talk about the catastrophic consequences by cars/driving and flying, poisonous smoke, dangerous productions, toxic outlets etc. This isn’t something new; we have heard these warnings for a long time. Still haven’t we changed our habits so we can be able to see a better world. Why has the realisation about the climate change been so slow?
The first reason for the slow realisation, and the biggest in my opinion, is money. Money controls most of the people in the world. If the rich owner of an industry can choose between two ways of production, one cheap but not good for the climate and one more expensive, I think he/she almost always choose the first alternative. If a driver can choose between petrol and ethanol I think it’s the price which decides what he choose. We can choose ecological food but the price will often make the mind up what we buy. Unfortunately, I think money make us forget the climate change.
As a second reason for the unhurried awareness, I want to mention the “It doesn’t happen to me” thoughts. Some of the biggest changes in the world’s climate and environment can’t easily be shown. It can be a long way from here geographical or it can be a long way in time. I think many people are here and now, they don’t think so much about what happens in 100 or maybe 1000 years. They can discuss about or even demonstrate against things in their neighbourhood, for example if the community has decided to take away a village school or a regain establishment. It’s not that easy to engage people in things happening far away or things happening in another generation. I think it’s easy to say” It’s such a big problem, it doesn’t matter what I do”.
My third and last reason for the sluggish understanding about climate change is the people in power. I think they have a big role in the worlds climate change. If they had really brought this catastrophe facts of the sick world on the agenda and done something about it I’m sure it would have been different. I think that most people are aware of money and the financial things in the world and I think that depends on that the people in power has made it so important. If they had done the environment to a big and important question from the beginning I’m sure we had had another world today.
All the facts about our sick world are really depressing. But even if we are slow in realize the big problem I think we can do something about it. I hope and think that peoples hunger after more and more money will decrease. We will value other things more like fresh air, green grass, a rich animal life etc. My hope is also that people can take care of each other. I don’t mean just the people in the family or in the neighbourhood, I mean to take care of each other round the world. I also hope and think that the people in power will open their eyes and do big things for the environment. In the end I would like to write a sentence I heard for some days on the radio, “One can’t do all but everybody can do something”. The meaning in the sentence is for me that everybody is important; everybody can do something for the environment. So let’s start!
