After reading the Fish article, I couldn’t help but laugh. The poor man, as he says, does not want to save the planet he just wants to live here in peace. He is very cynical about the changes he has made to “better the environment”. He points out common issues that a lot of people have with more environmentally friendly products such as the cost or the differences such as dimmer light bulbs or bad tasting meat. I think it is safe to say that if it wasn’t for his wife, Mr. Fish would probably go back to the products that he is used to. It just shows the dilemma of living as an environmentalist; however as Lisa stated being educated and informed on the issues is a good first step.
This just reflects one issue facing the environment and that is the idea that huge changes need to be made and not everyone is willing to make those changes. Feelings and attitudes toward the environment are a huge challenge facing the global environment. During my sophomore year, I participated in the Washington Semester international environment and development program. It became very evident after a trip to Ghana that semester that the global environment is not something people really care about. In Ghana for example the people had more important things to worry about than whether or not their actions were hurting the environment so for example people would burn forests in order to clear land for their personal needs. Overall people are not as worried about the future of the environment and are only living for the now so they are not willing to make changes. The global environment is a very big thing that needs collaborated work in order to deal with.
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