Global warming

I have recently finished a course called teaching for sustainable development. This course dealt, among other things, with how we humans are using the earth’s recourses and the big gap between the richest countries in the world and the poorest. It definitely made me realize that we can’t go on like this forever, we are consuming far too much and the impact on the environment is huge. One of the main messages with the course is that you as a consumer and individual can make a difference, we can try to cut down on waste and also try to buy more food witch are locally produced.

I and a friend have been intensively discussing global warming during these five weeks. I do think that we humans are contributing by letting out huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere whereas he thinks it also could have something to do with natural variations. We saw Al Gore’s film “an inconvenient truth” the last lesson and it is a pretty strong message in it, but it is also important to be aware about the fact that the movie is biased and some facts have been left out. I have also seen another movie called “The great global warming swindle” and it is, as you can hear, claiming that global warming is a myth. It is interesting to observe how you can come up with two totally different conclusions based on party the same facts. I mention this only because there is a general view that global warming is an unquestioned truth and that all scientists see it as a universal fact but that is not the case. I got annoyed when I saw it but it definitely made an impact and I can’t wave it aside as humbug. Anyway, be as it may with that it is still of vital importance that we find a way out of our fossil fuel need and face the truth that the consumer society of today is not the society of the future.

The arrival of the Wii

At last it is here, the long awaited game console. My brother and I ordered ages ago in the beginning of January. (Together…? But you two don’t live in the same house, well we have worked out a great way of solving that, the wii will be moved around and I have the honour to have it the first month) I haven’t tried it out yet so I won’t be able to give you a hand to hand experience, but it will come later.

I have talked a lot about this gaming console with my friends and I have tried to put forward all the positive aspects like motion sensor controls which give the player more freedom than before. There are still some scepticism but they wiill be won over to the right side.

All this may sound a bit geeky but it is actually a console that everyone can enjoy, even those who haven’t played TV games before.

Cruise

Ah sometimes you just need to get frustration out of the system and that is exactly what I used the blogg for that in my previous text (I have also used my brother and two friends). It feels better now which means that I can write about what I intended in first place, my Easter brake. So what have I been up to? Well, the male part of the Wassing family went on a cruise to Tallinn, in other words my brother, I and our father. The whole adventure got a shaky start since it turned out (we were on the motorway towards Stockholm) that no one did know from which harbour the boat was about to depart from. Dad (Tuve) took the blame since he is well dad and must be seen as the person who should take the blame when something like this happens…anyway Tuve phoned mum (she is sometimes regarded as the all knowing oracle in our family) and we got a perfect road description from her and were able to find the harbour without delay.

The cruise itself was as pleasant as I had expected a delicious buffet (I’m not sure if that way of dinning suits me since I ate a little bit too much…) a nice 6 hours stroll in Tallinn and sauna with a could beer at the boat’s spa. The only disappointment was the lack of party it would not have been a problem to find people to dance with if I hade been 50 years older). Anyway, we had a good time and that is the most important thing.

university standard...

Mackos blogg has been inactive for quite a long time now, and the explanation behind that fact is not that I haven’t got anything to write about it just that I been neglecting the blogg. I’m now in Umeå again and I feel that the Easter break was good for me. I intended to do some studding but I gave up my ambitions rather quickly. One thing I did prepare for though was a presentation about environmental goals. I was about to present four goals, and each goal would take approximately 5 minutes, which means that the presentation should be around about 20 minutes. I don’t like to make things half-finished so I was well prepared for the seminar with a couple of OH colour (!) figures and a written script. So how went the presentation?? Well, we had only to present one of our four goals (at least some of us) which basically meant that you could sit and read from the basic material that were handed out to us the week before Easter and that was exactly what some people did. Okay this was not a huge assignment and yes I could have spent half amount of the time preparing but I do think there should be a co-variation between performance and grade. As far as I’m concerned everyone in the room passed, hardly university standard.