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…]
In his piece “From Civil Rights to Megachurches,” Charles Duhigg outlines a basic formula in order for a social movement to me successful. He says “A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances” (87). Based on Duhigg’s example of Rosa Parks, her friends and close acquaintances … [Read more…]
Climate change is a topic that creates a lot of controversial arguments, one of which being if climate change is actually real. Climate change is in fact real and Juliet Schor discusses the damage of the fossil fuel industries in the movie “Do the Math.” Schor explains how we are still releasing carbon at an … [Read more…]
After looking at many different articles and discussing the matter with my classmates, I believe that technology can be used most efficiently when used in moderation. By only allowing yourself to use a cell phone for its intended purpose of making phone calls, you completely eliminate the chance of receiving an overwhelming amount of information online … [Read more…]
The argument around technology seems to consist of exploring the extreme side of things; living a life completely glued to your phone, unable to acknowledge to world around you versus shutting off your phone and unplugging entirely. The reason these extremes are at the forefront of how people view technology is because we have yet … [Read more…]
In her article “Plug in Better,” Alexandra Samuel discusses not only how unplugging causes more frustration with technology, but offers life altering advice on how to stay plugged while still avoiding the negative affects of technology. Samuel starts similarly to Anderson by emphasizing the negative ways technology has dictated our lives thus far, but then … [Read more…]
Technology is a topic fairly new to the world and yet has been evolving at an exponential rate for the last twenty years or so. From the release of the first smartphones phones came the spread of information like a virus through the internet. Everywhere you go and everyone you meet is engulfed by technology. … [Read more…]
