Climate Change
14 Wednesday Oct 2009
Written by Corve DaCosta in Love & Relationships, Thoughts & Commentary
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This blog post is to celebrate Blog Action Day 2009 on October 15, 2009.
The planet is ours to take care of and each one has a personal responsibility to do whatever they can to make that change. Surely, we like to place the blame at the politician’s feet to make the policies and legislate and we ought to. However, in the catastrophe we can act in some way to make Earth a better place.
We are blessed with a wonderful world and it pains my heart to see how come industries treat the natural resources we have in the name of profitability. We all can agree climate change is on everyone’s mind because we see not only the changes presently but also ramifications of our bad habits.
We know some of the effects of climate change – change in temperatures, water supply, animals, wildlife etc.
I want to focus on the effect on transportation. I am on the roads almost every day of the week and the traffic is terrible. We are not car pooling, we have awful images in our minds of public transportation at the same time damaging the environment we should be caring for.
If one driver per household switched to taking public transportation for a daily commute of 10 miles each way, this would save 4,627 pounds of carbon dioxide per household per year – equivalent to an 8.1% reduction in the annual carbon footprint of a typical American household.
We can do that much if we begin to think about the Earth and not ourselves. Surely we want the convenience of driving comfortably to our locations but sometimes we can suffer a little bit to benefit a wider cause and that is to preserve the world we live in.
Years ago in university I received an assignment that included climate change. My team mate (Annette Brown; God bless her heart) and I decided to create a video to emphasize our main points. We used our own Jamaica Urban Transit Company (public transportation) brand to promote the use of public transportation as it relates to climate change. We did so and the class at that time found climate change rather scary. It is scary because all we have to do is give up a little.
Today, climate change should not scare us but urge us to be different world citizens. It may be an inconvenient to some of us but something will have to give for us to save ‘Mother Earth.’ If Earth could speak s/he would be crying, shouting at us to care better for our world, to preserve what we have and change our lifestyles to make future generations live in peace.
I uploaded the video we produced years ago to http://www.youtube.com I must say if I were to create that advertisement all over again it would have looked different and the quality of the pictures used would have been better. I must apologize to all who will view this video and comment on the images/quality. However, I want you to focus on the message that was created for the presentation and now it is presented to you on this Blog Action Day – Climate Change.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQGZwOLDEGU&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b]
This was my first time creating a video with the Windows Movie Maker program now I have upgraded to the Adobe Premiere CS4. I will post that video in another post at another time. Stay tuned!
Source:
http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/PublicTransportationsRoleInRespondingToClimateChange.pdf
14 comments
October 15, 2009 at 4:15 AM
We have to change our lifestyle and that takes change in the way we think. We have to learn to live a simpler life.
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October 15, 2009 at 8:34 AM
The problem right now is that people are caught up arguing over whether or not the melting ice caps are due to human activity and failing to recognize the real reasons why we should be concerned about our polluting lifestyles.
I don’t have my driver’s license so public transportation is the way to go.
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October 15, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Unfortunately, I live in the country and public transit is not an option. However, we do things around the house to try and lower our carbon footpring.
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October 15, 2009 at 9:11 PM
One of my dream is the heal the world and make it a better place to live. Nowadays the Green House Effects is much disastrous and we need to build a much safer and cleaner environmental for the sake of newer generations to come.
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October 15, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Hear hear, Corve! I thought your video was great, with a very pertinent message. As Ken said, we live in the country, so there is no public transport available. But our recycling is probably 10 times what our actual garbage is, so we try to recycle as much as possible!
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October 15, 2009 at 9:53 PM
I am feeling the heat of climate change today.
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October 15, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Great post. I can appreciate this post
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October 16, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Wonderful thoughts. Small changes can make a big difference!
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October 16, 2009 at 8:17 PM
glad to see you participated in blog action day this year as well ^^
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October 16, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Great thoughts and wonderfully written. If we all made small changes it would make such a BIG impact!
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October 17, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Excellent post, and timely. We all need to do more individually, and still, I believe government needs to press hard on large industries across the globe as well. Thank you for stopping by my blog. It’s allowed me to find yours and your inspirational writing. best regards, Liz
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October 18, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Thanks for stopping by and following my blog. Have a great day.
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October 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Oh dear, in our country, transport is a big issue as public transport is not good. people are always screaming ‘jam, jam, jam’! and excuses are also the same! we can’t wait for big changes – right in the homes, tons of action can be taken to get it RIGHT for Mother Earth!
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October 21, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Give the president a chance! He inherited more problems than any before him. We DO need to rein in the malefactors of great wealth aa they are enslaving us all. Good post! FOX is relentless, the others merely clueless :]
Aloha, Friend!
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