Climate Change is Hot News
April 19, 2007
I went to Scotland and then to London for a few days this spring break. After our long days of touring, I would go back to the hotel room and turn on the TV. Well, it turns out that over in Scotland and England, they do not have the best TV show choices…so most of the time I ended up watching the news. And let me tell you, I was shocked at what I was hearing. It seemed like every other news story they would break with an update about global warming and climate change. I was thinking to myself as if I haven’t had enough of this from my class at school now I’m getting it on TV while I’m on break too! But, I guess this just goes to show you what a huge problem this issue is. I know I’ve written about this before, but I just thought maybe this trip could shed a little bit of a different light on it.
My mom and I went on “The Big Bus Tour” ride for one of the days on our trip to London and I noticed on the side of the bus that there was a sign that stated that all of the buses that “The Big Bus Tour” Company uses have special environmentally friendly engines. This would be especially important since pretty much everywhere you go, you can see one of these Big Buses passing by. So with so many, you want to make sure that they are not going to end up hurting the environment to a huge extent.
The “Big Bus Tour” Bus
Image from: http://www.showbus.co.uk/photos/ohm712y.JPG
I thought it was so interesting how the people over there seem to have much more concern for the issue or at least much more open concern. Over here in America it seems like there’s a lot of doubters, meaning a lot of people who don’t believe that climate change is actually a reality. While I was over there I was just overcome with this overwhelming feeling of everyone wanting to make an effort and inform the people about what they can do to help reduce the effects of climate change. It was definitely an eye opening experience because we aren’t really bombarded with a whole lot of information on TV on a regular basis. I think that it’s starting to pick up a little bit, however. For example, today on 101.9FM “The Mix” they had a brief little message, I think they called it a “Green Message” or something like that, updating the listeners on one thing they could do to help our environment. Today’s particular “Green Message” was to encourage shoppers to use cloth bags as opposed to plastic bags. They stated that one plastic bag contains enough petroleum to fuel a car for a mile! So I think that over in the UK they are really trying to make a difference, and I think it’s starting to rub off over here as well, which is of course very good news.
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Camille | April 20, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Mary Alice- I was in london too over break (of course, we saw eachother!) and I noticed the same thing as well. It seems that everywhere we went I saw something related to helping out the environment. I saw hundreds of those tiny hybrid cars, signs in the tube stations related to how you can cut down on energy, shower caps in our hotel rooms that said “environmentally friendly material,” and of course London has that new law that you have a pay a fee to drive into the city. I guess I was shocked at the awareness of the issue and that it was plastered everywhere. HEre in America, it just seems like we have one group of environmentalists fighting for public awareness, but no one cares because no one wants to change their lifestyle.
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mcrane | April 21, 2007 at 5:21 am
I think that it is really interesting how much buzz climate change and global warming has generated. I did a blog about global warming and how many Americans do not believe that it is a real threat, which you mentioned in your post. But, I have definatley noticed that global warming has been appearing in the news more lately, in major fashion magazines, and greeting cards. I was at Walgreens a few days ago trying to pick out a birthday card and I was looking at all of the different cards in the isle. I found one card that said on the outside something like “You are so cool” and on the inside it said “If everyone was as cool as you, global warming would not be an issue.” I didn’t buy it, but I thought that it was really interesting to find a greeting card about global warming.