why bother lying?

at this day and age only a handful of citizens take sustainability and climate change seriously and do all they can to make their lives more sustainable. Different activities they do include recycling, installing solar panels on their roofs, saving water and electricity, taking to public transport or buying emissions-free vehicles. Most of the populations of people who do recycle only do it if there are incentives laid down, and would only take public transport if it was cheaper; they seldom do these activities due to achieving sustainability.

I believe people do not make changes to their lifestyle unless they know of any actual negative effects on them and the people around them if they stick to their normal lifestyle. for example, a community who is frequently prone to flooding due to rising sea levels would do something about it, but a community that will not be at risk until the 22nd century would do nothing about it, and so would not bother to change their lifestyle.

in conclusion we should try to change the lifestyles of the people who are the most likely to be affected by global warming/climate change by showing them the direct effects on their lives, and also start educating people who are in "safe zones" about global warming/climate change and make them be aware of it. however, at the moment most people are ignorant and are beginning to deny the possibility of climate change despite scientific claims. most people are saying that it in a continuous and natural cycle and the world will return to its normal state in the next several decades. If this is true then we would not have to do anything at all.

blogprompt 3 - An inconvenient truth

I recently watched the first half of a documentary created by former vice president Al Gore called An Inconvenient Truth, which highlights all the causes and consequences of climate change and global warming on humanity and the environment. the documentary appears to talk about the comparison between the historical data of global temperature and CO2 levels from up to a few hundred thousand years ago to the data during the last few years. The documentary effectively points out the dramatic changes that have occurred during the past 100-200 years as a result of human activity, such as comparing images of glaciers at different times.

Although the documentary shows the changes that go on, it does not go deep enough into the causes and consequences of these changes. Also the themes that occur in the documentary are mixed. for example one scene features a public awareness meeting and the next scene shows images of the different natural environments. There are a few areas in the documentary that spark humour in the different situations, such as featuring a clip from a Futurama episode described by Al Gore as a "more detailed" analysis of the causes and consequences of global warming

overall the documentary is easy to understand but is a little mixed up  and does not go into the consequences of climate change deeply enough, but it is informative enough to make me aware that climate change and global warming is occurring and will cause dramatic changes/issues in the next 50 to 100 years