Climate change is a recurrent topic in the examination to access university( Selectivitat)
Level: Upper
Procedure: Listen AND read a lecture on climate change.
The lecture deals with the evil of thinking there is an irreconcilable opposition between individual and collective actions and how this misconception (individual Vs Collective) has been used by corporations to continue making money while polluting the environment.
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Write 3 of 4 sentences that are key in the text. Explain why you think they are important. Indicate if you agree, you don’t agree or you think they need to be explained further.
Share new words or expressions that you have learned and that you think might be useful for future essays.
10 comments:
"According to the intergovernmental panel on climate change, full-scale societal restructuring is essential within the next 11 years if we are to keep global surface temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius, but in order to do that we'll need scientists, mathematicians and engineers, among others, to help envision and create a world without emissions." I think this is important because it show how blind people are these days. There are already sciences and people working and making all types of renewable content and materials. If we aren't getting any of these things or if those things aren't getting implemented is because of the fact that no renewable materials give more money to a certain amount of people than renewable ones.
One of the first points I agree with, is that politics transform people who wants to help as an individual into consumers. For them, climate change is a good way of money making.
By other hand, I also agree when the guy says that we are very dependent on harm-enviorment things as fuel, plastic... It's true that some of this have become something indispensable in our lifes, but there are others we could reduce.
To end, I'm going to highlight which is for me the key of the video: its good to think as an individual for changing things, but we must look further. We need to continue changing and doing it as a collective. For changing the world, we need to shout very very loud, and only doing it one person, won't change barely nothing.
The key sentence I would like to outline is: “Things that they can barely avoid doing because of the fossil fuel dependent system they are born into. We are essentially blaming the victim and, by focusing on the individual, we miss the much bigger culprits to the problem of climate change: the 100 companies responsible for 71 percent of the world's global emissions and the government policies that allow them to do it.” The fact that there’s so much pressure put onto citizens, when people live in very different conditions and maybe some can’t afford that lifestyle is frustrating. And, yes, we can do something, like it is said “to put a little grain of sand”, the bare minimum. But it is our system that has to change, and we have to make people see it. So, as difficult it may seem, it's not about buying a new car with ecofuels, it’s by, whether individually or collectively, stop supporting these companies, in order to boost the climate change movement. - Clara B
This video is really important, since we get to learn a lot about what we have and have not to do; and about what is going on at the moment.
As my other mates have said it is shocking to see how blind and ignorant we are, scientist and specialist have been talking about this throughout the lasts years and yet some of us have not changed a single thing of their behavior, either recycling, turning lights off, deciding not to take a drive when it is a short distance or just take care of water are changes on our daily lives that could help us.
Yet I do not think that his is something we can solve by ourselves, since this is mostly the fault of big companies and every government.
Even if we change things this change will not be as impactful as one made by a company.
In my opinion, a key sentence in the video is: Climate change is to act less as individuals and more as a collective voice to force emissions heavy industries to move past the age of carbon and urge our elected officials to represent our voices.
Specially the beginning of this sentence "Climate change is to act less as individuals and more as a collective voice". I think this sentence is very important because whilst making individual changes in our lifestyle is very helpful (having no car, less children, plant based diet etc), united as a collective, we can help change more and bigger things, we can protest, educate others, send letters to big companies...
Lola McIver
In my opinion, a key sentence in the video is: Climate change is to act less as individuals and more as a collective voice to force emissions heavy industries to move past the age of carbon and urge our elected officials to represent our voices.
Specially the beginning of this sentence "Climate change is to act less as individuals and more as a collective voice". I think this sentence is very important because whilst making individual changes in our lifestyle is very helpful (having no car, less children, plant based diet etc), united as a collective, we can help change more and bigger things, we can protest, educate others, send letters to big companies...
Lola McIver
Some of the key senteces for me are:
"The start the individual option is flawed because it subscribes to an ideology that continues to prolong the problem of climate change." Because it is true that people tend to think that if we have to such big effort, people give up easily becasue it is not only up to them adn have excuses like "if others don't do it why should I?".
"The only way we can truly stop climate change is to act less as individuals and more as a collective ". It is true that we have to, but I also think that it also has to do with the big companies or people that has more power and influence. I agree that the individualistic option is good but taking acount how much big factories polute and how people of power don't do anything about it, the problem should be solved starting by it's root.
"As a chaos caused by climate change grows larger year after year so too do the cries to action, but environmental action seems to have been cleaved into two distinct paths toward stopping and
ultimately reversing climate change: Personal actions and systemic changes"
I decided to highlight this phrase because it portrays the root of the climate change problem, the fact that no one does nothing. As this sentence says, climate change has been and still grows everyday and almost no one acts upon that. In my opinion to solve this massive problem we should all act as fast as possible. I believe systematic changes are the most important thing, for example if it was made law that it is compulsory to use certain kinds of renewable energy methods and overtime ban the most harmful ones, the recovery of our planet would be a lot easier than if we based it in individuals actions. However I think personal actions are truly important too as if millions changed some of their habits, it would make a difference, not just that, but promoting positive and renewable alternatives is key to an actual change of our mindset and therefore Earth's condition. How are we supposed to fix our collective error if we keep on blaming and expecting others to act for us as individuals?
Ingrid Masip
For me a key sentences of this video is ''climate change is the act less as individuals and more as a collective voice'', this sentence is really powerful because it defines what we are fighting for and how to start making changes that will benefit us.
-Mora Kiara
In my opinion, the actions that can present more solutions are those in which the countries fix an immediate action that includes: a deep decarbonization and the implantation of different solutions, like for example the renewable energies.
Unfortunately, most countries are not willing to make these improvements due to possible expenditures and therefore lower capital.
So, we are the people who have to take this big step. In short, the emission of greenhouse gases and products that contribute to increasing the ozone hole must be reduced.
On the other hand, there are different more concrete actions that involve a change in the methodology of our day to day. These are summarized in 4. Reduce, reuse, recycle and recover.
Lisa Campos
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