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Simulation Discussion- Group 5
- How do these simulations relate to your community? Do any of them feel irrelevant to your context?
- How do these simulations help you (or not help you) find your place in combatting climate change?
- Have these simulations changed how you think climate change should be tackled?
- The Ecological Footprint was relevant to us because it showed us how our daily routines can affect the environment. The climate change game was less relatable because control over policies is not in our hands.The climate change game wasn’t as applicable to us as we currently are unable to change policies, but it was important and interesting to see the balance we have to make from economy, resources and environment.
2. The Carbon Footprint simulation helps us become more aware of what our carbon footprint is and what we can do to improve. The Climate Change simulation teaches us how to compromise since we can’t have everything and it teaches us how the government tries to balance the environment and the economy as well as how the government(s) has to work together on issues such as these.
3. From the simulation we discovered there are 2 ways to change the environment, one being use government policies and the other being the people’s life styles. Our group felt that the people need to reduce their resource consumption rather than rely on the government to enforce strict policies, as the government has many things to worry about and many people don’t listen to the police and other authoritative figures.
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I believe that there is some relevance in the climate change simulator it teaches us what legislation we need to encourage with COP21 and how those legislation will impact carbon emissions in the long run.
I disagree with just one point. "there are 2 ways to change the environment, one being government policies." I think this is totally wrong. The ONLY way to reduce resource consumption is to act as a population, not individuals. Sure you may say "it starts little by little." Personally I don't think that little is enough. Spending resources is convenient. It's cheaper and lazier. The government, and corporate bodies are a DIRECT reflection of what the population is as a whole. This is obviously true due to the fact that we directly or indirectly elect the government. If we really wanted to reduce resource consumption why not start a boycott on products on the market that are unnecessarily environmentally unfriendly. The reason is obvious we as a population - as a whole do not care at all about what happens to the environment, our resources. Sure as individuals we may say "I care about the environment" but in reality each and everyone of us are to blame - we are the cause of our own problems. We buy products that hurt the environment - and by doing so we are not only supporting the unnecessary depletion of resources we will also eventually in the same way cause our own demise.
Of course if you read on in your statement you say things I agree with like "people need to reduce their resource consumption." It's just that point I disagree with - otherwise I agree nearly entirely.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
I agree fully on your answers. As that we can help in our community little by little, but we can also help out worldwide. Every little thing help. In the large and small spectrum.
stephanie zawaduk
Sep 23, 2015