- After reading the “Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change”, I was surprised by the second question which was “how much trouble are we in?”. I remembered when I traveled to the Maldives with my family a few years ago, my mom told me that if we the island that we were traveling to might be flooded 40 years later. I was very surprised and sad at that time because it gave me such a good and relaxing time when I was there. And now, this article confirmed with me again when I read, “Over the coming 25 or 30 years, scientists say, the climate is likely to resemble that of today, although gradually getting warmer, with more of the extreme heat waves that can kill vulnerable people. Rainfall will be heavier in many parts of the world, but the periods between rains will most likely grow hotter and drier. The number of hurricanes and typhoons may actually fall, but the ones that do occur will draw energy from a hotter ocean surface, and therefore may be more intense. Coastal flooding will grow more frequent and damaging, as is already happening.” With that being said, the future generation will face a bigger natural disaster than we have today because of how much emission that we had released. Something that I learned by reading this article was that each can help by dieting meat, especially beef to reduce emissions. A lot of people like me would think that eating meat was such a normal thing to do because we never acknowledged how much energy that the production of a meal needed. I was definitely very worried when I was reading this article, but with all the methodologies that it had taught, I felt like I was more knowledgeable about the problem of global pollution and had more confidence in helping the world by my own effort. I think that my family and my friends are not very aware of this problem but I will spread the word not only verbally but also in actions.
- My process of cleaning up my school email was very frustrating because there was too much of them. It took me about 30 minutes to trash my email from over 2000 to 18. I only saved those that I thought would be handy when I need them. At the same time, I found that there are a lot of emails rewriting the same information that was being posted on canvas; thus, the school was as well sending a lot of information that I didn’t need. After deleting almost every email on my email drive, I felt relaxed and definitely would say that action as an act of sustainability.
