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COMM 3030 - Communication and Social Responsibility
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Posted posted by Chris Johnson @ 9:24 AM
In class we have talked about the damaging effect of green house gasses and what kind of threat they pose to future generations if not changed. There were many scholars in the class discussion who had more of an opinion than factual evidence that would support their argument toward melting ice caps and helpless artic and polar animals. Many of these students were taking the approach that everybody needs to do something and we should follow the advice that has been given to us from elected officials on saving the environment.I personally want to ask are we as a class being socially responsible with what we are saying in class? In other words have we all bought a hybrid car or paid out unearthly amounts of money (we don't have) to change our cars over to an alternative fuel source other than fossil fuels? Has everyone changed their house or appartment over to solar/wind energy and cut off their ties to the local power company. Many people have laptops that are made up of many types of plastic, plastic is a product that is manufactured from oil that is drilled and tapped from the earth. So where we think we are saving trees that are turned in to paper for us to take notes on and do our assignments on, we are really drilling for more oil. Speaking of oil; are we all growing gardens and kneeding our own bread, because many if not all products you buy at the store are shipped in from a diesel powered truck that burned diesel and not only polluted the air we breathe but filled up at Flying J with diesel which is a by-product of oil. Are all our notes that we take in class written on recycled paper or am I just going a little too far with this?
I think that if we are to get serious about sustainability we need to stop blaming the government and other people and start with ourselves.
