Journal 18

-My though on Climate Change and the human impact on the planet

My thoughts on climate changes… where do I begin? Should I start of by telling you my thoughts on the oil crisis or how it seems like we as a species are going to end up starving ourselves to death? It feels like more and more no one cares. No one cares about their environment, not one cares about education, no one cares about anything. Only thing that people care about is whether or not they are going to be able to get the new iphone when it comes out at four in the morning. The things that humanity finds value in are things that are cheap. TVs, cars, reality shows, fast food. All these things are relatively cheap. Clean water, clean air, renewable energy resources, all of these things are PRICELESS, but these are the things that people value the least. This probably makes our ancestors roll over repetitively in their graves. It’s almost like everyone is only looking out for themselves, which leads to countries only looking out for themselves, which makes no sense because everything is connected.

I feel like many people think that climate change is a joke or just some hypothetical thing that might happen a hundred years from now. Climate change is saddening. As we read all the different articles about the large about out species that are either already extinct or on the verge of extinction, I think “When are we going to go extinct? When is our expiration date?” I hope that we will be able to find the technology that it takes to keep living great adventurous lives. I don’t want to have to tell my kids to go on the computer to see what a lion or grey wolf looks like.  I want them to still be around for my kids, and I am not talking about in a zoo where there are only three of them, and they were bread and born in captivity. I want them to be able to go and take trips all over the globe without feeling guilty that their ecological foot print is getting bigger and bigger. I just want them to be able to enjoy life like I do without worrying about destroying the world.

Like the saying for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, for everything someone does in one part of the world it has an impact on someone else in another. I think the key to stopping all of the madness is education. Education is the key. Through education people can not only learn about how what they are doing is impacting other people, but they can learn how to live better lives. Lives that don’t always involve sitting in front of TVs, or driving to the grocery store to buy one thing. We can learn how to grow our food in a more sustainable way and how to live with the resources that this ONE Earth provides. I think that in order of us as a species to survive the next thousand years we have to make huge strides in many different ways. We need to become more eco friendly, we need to find renewable energy; we need to renew ourselves.