Climate Change 1.0

Discussion: Discussion about climate change, on the internet, like any other topic, seems to get really confusing. I literally just typed "climate change" into google... and these are the search topics that came up.

Climate Change Facts
Climate Change Definition
Climate Change Hoax
Climate Change 2015
and a few others... 

Sort of all over the place, but through these "most searched" terms, we can see that people are at least trying to educate themselves.

But basically, what I have deduced from my research on this topic is that people care about climate change. Some people care that it's happening, and want to reverse it, some people care that it hurts them financially, and the people who don't care probably would care if they put in the effort to learn a little bit more about it, because it effects us more than we think. It seems to me, that climate change has become more of a political agenda, rather than a cause.

I want to relate back to my On The Media post about Exxon's climate change controversy. Like I said in this post, I wonder if the leaders of Exxon factor in the fact that their future posterity are going to have to live with the consequences of their actions today. I'm sure that Exxon is not the only one. In fact, I know they aren't. Take Volkswagen, and the deceit that has been coming out of that company lately. They literally proved that they do not care about the environment, and outlets like social media helped to spread that like wildfire.

Position: I think it's great that society has tools like the internet, and opinions stated on social media to help educate them on important topics such as climate change. But like I've said multiple other times, relating to various of research, I think it's important to be careful what you believe. Big corporations who have a financial agenda, or uneducated people can say whatever they want, and if you don't get the actual facts from PRIMARY sources, such as credible scientists (I saw that NASA has a page up about climate change) it's easy to form an opinion that you otherwise wouldn't have formed if you were accurately educated.

I think that social media has been a great help in spreading awareness about climate change, and I think that this is one of the most important roles that the internet plays today. It gives people the option to care. It gives people an easy outlet to go to, to find out what's going on in the world, and then it gives them the opportunity to do what they want with that information.