Well! How exciting was yesterday re: climate change?? If I wasn't passionate about it already, listening to Leonardo DiCaprio saying "For the economy itself will die if our ecological system collapses" at the UN Climate Summit would have definitely inspired me to really start thinking. I am aware that there have been many passionate and exciting speeches surround the real threat that climate change is, but it is the way that the media, and social media have grasped this Leo speech that is exciting me most. We need to talk about it, and open conversations, the more people get talking, the more ideas can start flowing. It is not something that needs to be left to the ideas of just scientists, it needs to be opened up to everyone,new innovations are needed.
Climate change is a huge threat to our continuing to live on this planet. It is looming and there isn't enough being done. I've always thought that there is a feeling of "why does recycling matter?" and "there's no point, what difference can one person make?", but the information about that difference, and why recycling matters needs to be disseminated and communicated to everyone, clearly. We know that we should, and we know that it is 'good for the environment', but is that enough?
There can't be the change in thinking and the shift of ideas that is so desperately needed if we don't know WHY it is we need to do it. Not just the why of 'or else we're going to be submerged by the sea, and all of the planets creatures are going to become extinct', but the why behind the actions. How recycling relates to climate change, why turning the tap off whilst brushing your teeth is important, why you should turn the lights off when leaving a room, and why you probably shouldn't hire a hot tub for your birthday weekend even though you super want to!
I think that might be my next blog, all the things that we are constantly told to do, and why?
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