Question: What methods for approaching social change also aid in stopping climate change? Possible Solutions: civil disobedience– doing something uncomfortable with others doing the same thing can cause unity; morality– people feel as though there is a moral obligation to work together against climate change; protests– people come together in one place for one belief; weak ties/sense … [Read more…]
Climate change has become an issue so catastrophically large that people have begun to give up on it. What could one person possibly do on their own? Well, nothing. Which is exactly why social cohesion plays an imperative role on the road to end climate change. Both Kathleen Dean Moore, nature writer and philosophy professor, … [Read more…]
In Kathleen Dean Moore’s interview with Mark Democker, Moore begins to discuss the urgency with which to approach climate change and how exactly future generations have a chance to stop it from completely obliterating the Earth. In the interview DeMocker says, “…Paul Crutzen proposes that the planet has entered a new geologic epoch he calls … [Read more…]
Both Charles Duhigg, author of “From Civil Rights to Megachurches,” and Bill McKibben, featured speaker and climate change activist in “Do the Math,” have very opposing views on how exactly to go about initiating social change. Duhigg observes social change occuring in a three-step process; the process begins with close friends speaking out, then acquaintances … [Read more…]
