To what extent do you think that it is your duty as a citizen to be 'informed'? Are you informed? How do you get to be informed about serious issues? To what extent do you think that you should leave the complicated decisions up to others?
As an inhabitant of the earth I believe that I should be fully informed as to how to live as sustainable as possible and therefore help save the environmental, both local and international.
Empowered citizenship, to me, means that everyone both knows all (if not, then almost all) the facts about a certain issue and also does things to help the situation/issue.
I think that it is my right to know as much as I can about the environment and sustainability and how to live a sustainable lifestyle, but within reason, I trust the government to a certain extent, it that their sensor ship that they put into place is probably well founded. Although some times I think that the government are holding something back that could help the environment, or just not doing all it can in order to fully reduce greenhouse gases or just help the environment, for its own benefit.
Personally I think that information that I have received over my lifetime is sound enough that I have a fairly well rounded and informed Idea and knowledge of sustainability and global warming, in that way, I am fairly well informed.
Everyone should be informed as to sustainability and greenhouse gases, it is our right and duty as citizens of local areas, bigger scale governments and international conventions.
The way in which people get informed is by the media, the media Is the most powerful propaganda tool in the world, people all round the world can read a blogg, a website or watch something on youtube.com and form an opinion on a matter and even learn something useful.
When people become more informed and more involved, they start wanting to make more decisions or at least get more involved in the decision making process, lowering their trust of someone else’s decision making about the big decisions.
Empowered citizenship is a tool of the media; it is being used to, make the public feel like they can make a difference. They can, but in other ways, learn more about a subject that you feel part of, or something you’re passionate about. Write a blogg and use the worldwideweb to exploit and advertise your views and opinions, this will create a multi-national citizenship and global community.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Sunday, 1 November 2009
blogg #2
Al Gore (and the IPCC) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 (BBC 2007) largely for the production of the film 'An Inconvenient Truth'
The committee cited "their efforts to build up and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change".
To what extent do you think this was deserved? Having watched this film in class did you feel that your opinion (or perhaps the opinion of others) to the issue of climate change could be positively influenced? What did you think of this film? Was it effective?
The film ‘an inconvenient truth’ was created to highlight people’s knowledge (or lack of) of global warming, Al Gore, as a major promoter of ‘green living’ (http://www.algore.com/) presented the film as a documentary in a hall in front of not only cameras but an audience as well. The film did highlight the fact the people in general really have no idea of the damage that we are doing to the world and the fact the although global warming is a major newspaper seller, we really don’t know the extent to which we are polluting the atmosphere and causing ‘never before seen’ weather patterns, areas that once were covered in permafrost and sea level rises.
However, as good as the film was and as educational as it seemed this doesn’t mean that he was a worthy winner of one of the world’s most prestigious awards whose list if previous winners include the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Bunche and Martin Luther King to name but a few. The reasons cited for Al Gore being given this award include ‘for his efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change’. I wouldn’t say that Al Gore didn’t illustrate that problem of Global warming, but did he do it on a wide enough scale? Did he address any alternatives to the way in which humans live their lives, non-energy efficient way, people still doubt that global warming is happening or at least being affected by human impact (ILoveCarbonDioxide.com).
The film is almost like just watching a PowerPoint in a lecture hall, the most important age group that Al Gore needed to address and influence is children, and I don’t believe he did this at all. Apart from a small clip from futurama (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=futurama+global+warming+clip&uni=1) he didn’t address the one group of people that are really going to make a future difference to the state of the planet and the ones who are going to have to deal with the problems that the previous generations have left them.
Al Gore also didn’t seem to approach the problem of the growing number of Americans who just seem to want to ignore the problem of green house gasses; it just seems to be one of those things that he simply accepts.
Al Gore being given the Nobel peace prize is a good way of enhancing the reputation of the film and of keeping the public eye on global warming but there were probably more worthy candidates for the prize in 2007.
The film did highlight the point that we as a race on this planet are seeing, even if not doing, things that have never been seen before and we need to keep being reminded that the earth was here long before us and it will be here long after we are gone.
The committee cited "their efforts to build up and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change".
To what extent do you think this was deserved? Having watched this film in class did you feel that your opinion (or perhaps the opinion of others) to the issue of climate change could be positively influenced? What did you think of this film? Was it effective?
The film ‘an inconvenient truth’ was created to highlight people’s knowledge (or lack of) of global warming, Al Gore, as a major promoter of ‘green living’ (http://www.algore.com/) presented the film as a documentary in a hall in front of not only cameras but an audience as well. The film did highlight the fact the people in general really have no idea of the damage that we are doing to the world and the fact the although global warming is a major newspaper seller, we really don’t know the extent to which we are polluting the atmosphere and causing ‘never before seen’ weather patterns, areas that once were covered in permafrost and sea level rises.
However, as good as the film was and as educational as it seemed this doesn’t mean that he was a worthy winner of one of the world’s most prestigious awards whose list if previous winners include the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Bunche and Martin Luther King to name but a few. The reasons cited for Al Gore being given this award include ‘for his efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change’. I wouldn’t say that Al Gore didn’t illustrate that problem of Global warming, but did he do it on a wide enough scale? Did he address any alternatives to the way in which humans live their lives, non-energy efficient way, people still doubt that global warming is happening or at least being affected by human impact (ILoveCarbonDioxide.com).
The film is almost like just watching a PowerPoint in a lecture hall, the most important age group that Al Gore needed to address and influence is children, and I don’t believe he did this at all. Apart from a small clip from futurama (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=futurama+global+warming+clip&uni=1) he didn’t address the one group of people that are really going to make a future difference to the state of the planet and the ones who are going to have to deal with the problems that the previous generations have left them.
Al Gore also didn’t seem to approach the problem of the growing number of Americans who just seem to want to ignore the problem of green house gasses; it just seems to be one of those things that he simply accepts.
Al Gore being given the Nobel peace prize is a good way of enhancing the reputation of the film and of keeping the public eye on global warming but there were probably more worthy candidates for the prize in 2007.
The film did highlight the point that we as a race on this planet are seeing, even if not doing, things that have never been seen before and we need to keep being reminded that the earth was here long before us and it will be here long after we are gone.
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