Blogg #3

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.