Why Climate Matters

My knowledge of climate change is extremely small at this point in the year.  However, before I started this class I had an idea of the problems associated with the climate change.  After reading the texts for this first week I am now getting a glimpse of how society views climate change and what scholars have to say about this.  Don't Look Away by Naomi Klein brought up some serious questions to ask myself.  I had always liked the idea that one person can make a difference by taking the right step in their individual life choices to help create a better environment.  However the article says that there needs to be policy changes and getting all nations on board.  I would classify myself as a denier to climate change currently.  I absolutely recognize the reality of it however I easily push it aside as a problem for someone else to deal with.  That was a little tough for me come to terms with since no one likes seeing himself or herself as the bad guy. This article was the motivation I needed to see that the climate really does matter.

In the article entitled Climate Fight Won't Wait for Paris by Bill McKibben, I got an idea of the politics involved with the climate and some examples of divestment.  I found his arithmetic about climate change to be really interesting.  McKibben shows the exact problem and offers a solution, which made it really easy for me to see what needs to be done especially since I am unaware of much of the information on climate change.  The whole idea of climate change appears to me to be so complex but after reading this article I saw the problem broken down into easily digestible information.  To be honest, I didn't realize the full extent of what was happening to the world and the predictions for climate change; this article cleared much of that up for me.