#paulinebourdon

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Dead Planet

 For one of our lectures, guest speaker Pauline Bourdon came in to talk to us about climate change and how we and others can make a difference. The talk started with a video that shows other parts of the world that have had a great negative impact from climate change. The talk continued with Pauline telling us how people help with securing our beautiful world and reduce the amount of fossil fuel and rubbish that causes the world to change. The talk then opened to audiences discussing these issues and how changes could be made with the first unsurprising question being, “how can we help?” this was met with what I thought was quite controversial. “grow your own food” was what we were given and considering most people in that room bar 1 or 2 don’t own a garden but what I thought was just one of many suggestions turned out to be one suggestion which started a debate of how we are told by Pauline “we are responsible for our future” and we “should be doing whatever we can” was hypocritical and a little insulting since climate change has been around for a long time and that everyone else is just as responsible as people who have not been around long. The question I would ask is why is climate change placed and pressured on us when the rest of the world and people before us should be just as responsible? This world is all of our home and should not be placed on the younger generations to be responsible for the world becoming worse.