Monday, March 24, 2008

An Inconvienent Truth and my Ecological Footprint

So after watching Gore's film An Inconvienent Truth I have some mixed feelings about global warming. I do tend to believe in it; however, I'm not entirely sure Gore is presenting it in the most conceivable way. The graphs and visual aids were useful in helping me to understand Global Warming, however, it at times seemed over the top.I do believe that global warming rests entirely on the shoulders of the human population, specifically the american population. This distresses me because I don't know how to convince other people to do something about this. I've done a little bit, but I know it's not enough- I've replaced all my light bulbs with low-energy bulbs. But I should still continue to do more. I need to figure out how to live in an energy efficient way that reducing my own waste in terms of what I'm putting out into the environment.

I took the quiz at www.myfootprint.org and discovered that if everyone lived like I do, we'd need 3.4 planets to sustain the earth. I use 15 acres of resources... which I think is good considering that the average in this country is 24 acres. I try as hard as I can not to live "extravagantly". My biggest use of resources is in food, I know that I should do more in terms of eating locally grown and produced food, but what is local? I mean we're in NYC--- I eat from the green markets as much as possible, but during the winter that is not always possible. Perhaps I should try a bit harder.

M

3 comments:

Erin EK Kim said...

I agree with your feeling. It definitely has a certain limit to do something for nature individually. But there will be a huge senergy effect if both individuals and whole country is working together. I hope this class helps us to find a better solution for our life with nature.

Roach Dumpling said...

I am sometimes in depression because of the reality we have to face, on the other hand, I still hope to make "the world" beautiful more than anything, even more than poem. Grobal worming is serious problem because nobody really don't care even though they say it is serious. But I strongly beliave that some prople are truly thinking this problem and actually working hard to recover the world. And I am sure you are one of them. My job is to make others who keep hurting the world disappear. Let's do our best from each position.

Roach Dumpling said...

I have just seen the movie, inconvenient truth now. I tihnk the movie is good and relating to the book in addition to Gore's clear thesis and questions to make us think what grobal warming is.
However, I prefer the book more than the movie because if auther of the book want to make us think more than he controls readers, the book, itself works. Influation from movie is strong because of sound, image effect. But, it makes one site and stereo type too.
And before we are asked by others, we need to ask to ourselves what we face on.