Why do you care about climate change and what are you doing to reduce your impact on the environment?

Question

Hi, my name is Cate Blanchett and I’m working with the Australian Conservation Foundation to promote Who On Earth Cares, a new campaign bringing together all who are concerned about climate change.

If you care about climate change, I urge you visit http://www.whoonearthcares.com and put yourself on the map.

I am looking forward to reading your responses.

For more information about the Who on Earth Cares campaign and to see me asking this question on video visit the Yahoo!7 Answers blog - http://au.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-txN._0woRKfpYuTJw9rObY.WmgiUW5xm?p=1631

Answer 1

Hello! I just put myself on the map! That's cool!

My answer is I care about Climate Change because I don't want it to keep getting hotter every year! If recent weather patterns aren't enough of an indicator that we need to address this issue then I don't know what is!

Ok so what am I doing? Well we wear jumpers at home instead of turning the heater on and I hang my laundry on the line whenever I can. My husband and I also try to buy organic because the farming processes are generally better for the environment.

Bye!

Answer 2

I do care about climate change because it is a world problem, therefore it affects us all. Maybe not at the same time or with the same intensity, but sooner or later we will all have to pay the price. Some regions are already suffering from the effects of contamination and the predictions for the near future are really deppressing. So the way I see it it's this generation's duty to solve the problem, not only for our benefit but for the following generations'. It is their right to enjoy this planet as much as we do.
I live in a small town in the centre of Argentina, Latin America. This year I worked with some classmates on a project about the vital importance of preserving the Polar zones, which are an essential part of the mechanism that keeps the planet alive. Well, maybe not alive ; ), but providing life to all of us and every living creature.
Regards from Argentina : )
PS: keep up the good work Cate! (And I mean both the "green" and the acting work)

Answer 3

I care about climate change because i can't stand the heat and the really long winters aren't that fun either. what am i doing to reduce my impact on the environment? well honestly i guess i'm helping to be part of the problem, being i'm an electrician and everyone knows electricity is a big hurt on the environment(at the nuclear power plants anyways...). although in my spare time i like to make little projects, and already have a scratchy design for a fully electric car..who knows maybe it will work....

i also have designed plans for what me and my two good friends call "The Mermalair" so when the planets temperature becomes so unbearably hot a select few of the earth will have a place to go for the next few hundred years until the planet is livable again...although this is kinda "after disaster" not so much preventative steps..

Answer 4

I don't care about climate change, I believe the climate has always fluctuated and it will continue to do so. Further I don't make a significant impact on the environment, none of us do. If all humans died tomorrow, 25 years later you would never even know we had existed. You are an actress, correct?

Answer 5

I'm 16 and climate changed really concerns me, I try do my bit like switching of light bulbs when I leave a room, recycle and reuse, use public transport. In the past 4 years I have already seen the quiet significant changes. I go skiing every year in France, when I went 4 years ago the whole of the bottom of the valley was covered with a decent amount of snow and it was very cold but going back to the same place this year there was no snow in the upper villages of the valley and I was walking around in a thin jumper. Talking to people who have lived there for many years they have noticed these changes too, winter has been starting later and they get rain when they expect it to be snowing.

The climate really fascinates me and I would really like a job in environmental science study the effects of climate change and way to reduce and prevent it, any suggestions of what sort of jobs I could look in to would be very helpful!

I hope everyone does there bit to help.

Answer 6

I believe that the climate change cannot be stopped.
Make the best of what you have and make records. All things are cyclical. Next it will be the big freeze. But not in my lifetime.
I've just moved to the USA and despite everyone slagging this country off for polluting the air, on a domestic front, the recycling works well. Big bins collected regularly, only a few restrictions on what can and cannot be recycled, it all goes in the same bin too.
My family only produces 38 litres of waste a week. We're careful with our resources because we have to pay through the nose for them!
We do have 2 cars, but one is idle most of the time. We walk to school and back daily.
That's about it.
What can be done in reality?
It may pull on the heartstrings of some, just as the poverty in Africa and all the campaigns in the world have made very little difference. Greedy governments hinder such efforts and poor old Joe Public is expected to cough up once again.

Answer 7

Yes Cate, I use public transport, and if I do have to travel on my own where public transport is not available I use a motorcycle. I do have a car, because I have a 6 year old daughter, and at times it is handy. It gets used once per week. Recycle everything that can be, reduce electricity consumption in the home (not that hard really), investigate how much power an appliance uses before purchase, no more incandescent light bulbs. go back to uni as a 30+ year old, study as an environmental engineer so that I can become part of the solution, even though all humans are automatically part of the problem

Answer 8

I believe we should all care. I live in a place that's pretty polluted and I would love to help clean it up. But I'm limited to just getting energy efficient light bulbs and keeping the air conditioning setting to around 78 degrees during summer during winter it's not cold enough to run the heater. Also I have been driving a lot less since I moved. My job and all the places I go are a lot closer. So I've been saving about 10 gallons of fuel a month and around $30.

Answer 9

I care about it because I have been affected by it, along with everyone I know. There have been increasingly destructive weather and climate events all over the world, some of which could not have been caused by anything but the general global trend of gradual warming.
I advocate vehicles that use less gasoline, or no gasoline, I recycle plastics and paper, I keep the heat low in winter and the air conditioning temperature high in summer, i walk more places or bike, I turn off lights in the day time, I have a battery powered lawn mower, and a manual lawn mower, and i argue with people who call global warming a hoax.

Answer 10

Hi Cate.. or should I call you Miss Blanchett :-)

It's nice to see you on answerer's and better to know you are asking a real question that concerns .. well most of the world.... or should concern all of the world.

On that note I'll get straight to answering your question.

Well I'm concerned about climate change for some very basic reasons.
Firstly I want to leave this world in a condition that my kids and future grand children can live in.
At the rate we are going the impact on our climate will/ is having an adverse effect in our life time. It is up to this generation to stop repeating our forefathers environmental blunders so our children can have a future.

Secondly our energy resources are running out and we are in desperate need of developing realistic sustainable renewable energy sources that do not destroy our environment.
Sustainable renewable energy does mean more jobs for every one, it's an economically sound policy which is being missed by large corporations and governments.
Our short term instant cash frame of mind needs to change to achieve this though.

I want the next generation to be proud of what this generation has achieved and not be ashamed of the way we have abused our environment.

Answer 11

I am not sure if caring is going to help. Climate change is inevitable. When and how fast are the issues of concern today. As an individual I do small things like use energy efficient light bulbs, walk or bike to places, etc. etc.. the real issues are what are the industrialized nations going to do. There is where global changes must be made.