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Group 1's Simulation Discussion (Members: Maheen, Jillian, Kent, Mohammad, Muntaha, and Trisha)
Blog Post Group Members: (Leader) Maheen Kahlon, Kent Tseng, Mohammad Ahmed, Muntaha Fatima, (Writer) Jillian Nieberding, Trisha Ramakrishnan.
How do these simulations relate to your community? Do any of them feel irrelevant to your context?
These simulations relate to our community because these are worldwide problems that everyone faces. As a global community, we have to work together to limit our effect on climate change and these simulations emphasize the importance of inclusion. Without everyone working together and pulling their own weight, it will become very difficult to reverse the effects of carbon emissions and destruction of natural habitats by our over consumption. We believe that money, effort, dedication and time is required and at times the public is not willing to accept that. This was portrayed in the Climate Challenge. Making actual policies that affect our nation seems irrelevant because no one our community is the prime minister but what does feel relevant is making little changes that make a global change one step at a time.
How do these simulations help you (or not help you) find your place in combatting climate change?
We realize our impact on our planet and are more informed on what actions we should take to care for the world in which we live. . We are also able to take actions that make it better, such as recycling. Recycling is better than trashing what we have, as products which require a lot of energy and resources to create can be reused/recycled. This avoids using the extra resources and energy, furthermore conserving natural habitats and increasing the sustainability of our planet. Our places in reversing the effects of climate change are to make the choices every day to reduce, reuse, and recycle. These choices could potentially include carpooling, taking public transport, buying local old products and using less energy.
Have these simulations changed how you think climate change should be tackled?
Simulations have changed how we think we should tackle climate change. The second simulation showed how leading by example is far more effective than by words. This brings into focus the knowledge that actions speak louder than words, and are far more effective when tackling an issue as far-spread as climate change. This calls all global citizens into action, to work together. The same simulation showed that your game was more successful when the whole UN was working together to set goals to limit carbon emissions.
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I believe that recycling will help reduce our ecological footprint and will benefit the environment. I think that if you start recycling more, people will see what you're doing and will follow.
I agree fully that we must all work together as a community to make a difference, meaning us as individuals have to do our own part. I think that we should always do our best to recycle and work on reducing our ecological footprint in order to have a healthier environment.
Most of your points are valid and I agree with most of your points. In order to reduce our ecological footprint everyone needs to work together as one whole community. Everyone needs to pull their own weight, but sometimes the public, government, and corporations don't want to accept pulling their own weight, which makes it a lot harder to do something good for our world. We are the cause of our own problems. As said in your third answer, actions speak louder than words. If we see someone helping the environment and reducing his/her ecological footprint, we are encouraged to do the same. Seeing the population and governments working together to reduce our ecological footprint and tackle climate change, would be far more effective in making other people do the same rather than just talking about it.
Moomal Panhwer
Sep 23, 2015