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.