Humanities reflection
- Describe the project that you did and your experience at exhibition.:At this exhibition I learned that I was not ready for what was going to happen there, but I did learn a lot about climate change and global warming that is really important to me because of my point of view on the earth and the fact that I am vegan myself. I really do want to learn about climate change/global warming and when I did was kinda disgusted by the world from learning what we do to it, it is incredible how much people just don't care about the wellbeing of the place we live in and we are going to live in for the next hundred or so years.
- Now that you have looked at both sides more deeply, how and why has your perspective shifted?: my perspective has shifted now that I know that people from both sides share a common goal of changing what they do in there lives.
- What do you now understand about your own values that you didn’t before?: I understand a lot better now that veganism is helping the world a little bit at a time, I knew that being vegan helped but I didn't know how much it really would change some things like my carbon footprint.
- What do you understand about the “other side’s” values that you didn’t before?: I do now understand a lot more about what I was studying from both sides of the argument like how everyone does not want the world to end because of the climate, as well as people are willing to change their lifestyle to change the environment.
- What have you learned about democracy after completing this project?: I learned that democracy is why nothing is why no one is making an effort to change the world.
- How have your political views changed as a result of this project?: I don’t think my political views have changed at all in fact they have gotten stronger from my point of view.
- What role could Rogerian rhetoric and/or a “willingness to be disturbed” play in a democratic society?: I believe it would most definitely change people's view and have a willingness to be disturbed by our world which might actually have us to change what we do.
What Will Happen to the World?
Elise Vogel
As you can tell the world is changing around us, in Alaska it has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the nation, bringing a widespread catastrophe.
Sea ice is rapidly receding and glaciers are getting smaller. Thawing of the glaciers is leading to more wildfire, and affecting everything with wildlife and habitat. Rising ocean temperatures and acidification in the ocean will alter valuable marine fish.
Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, what we do from today forward makes a big difference. Depending on our choices, scientists predict that the Earth could eventually warm by as little as 2.5 degrees or even 10 degrees. In different countries other than America the greatest decreases in crop yields from climate change will likely occur in dry and tropical regions. In some African countries, for example, wheat yields could decline by as much as 35% by 2050.
Climate change is most likely going to affect global, regional, and local food by disrupting food availability, decreasing access to food, and making utilization more difficult, so if we changed and cut down the meat industries we would have less CO2 in the air which would help the climate and have less waste on the planet.
But I do want us to change theses things with the right motivation form both sides of the government.
The government might agree on carbon taxing witch would most definitely reduce the carbon in the air by a lot, I feel both sides would share the common goal of not wanting the planet to die in the next hundred or so years.
Fewer than a third of registered Republicans nationwide say that climate change is caused mostly by human activities, while nearly half say it’s mostly due to “natural changes in the environment.”
Republicans in the New York City area are about twice as likely to agree that human activities are driving global warming as their counterparts in Montana witch think it just natural for the environment to change.
Our solution to climate change and global warming would be getting rid of gas-powered cars and using electric instead. As well as electricity from the sun instead of what we do now, and to shrink our CO2/carbon footprint making vegan more of an option for people and not killing and polluting our planet more than we already have by killing things that the earth gives us.
We could also make buildings out of recycled materials as well as create biodegradable houses so we do not have the waste that destroys the ground with plowing and pouring cement for a house that someone most like will not stay in for the entire lifespan of the house, and the same goes for cars all of the parts in a car do not biodegrade and just leaves waist as well as all the CO2 that it creates for making the car and from what it creates itself.
When people eat meat it creates so much carbon in the atmosphere that destroys the climate which causes it to change, to build a world that is entirely vegan and plant-based would be my dream goal if I ever have the chance.
In my opinion, Climate change is legitimately happening around us I am on the liberal side of climate change and how the world should be changed.
We need to regulate the plastic and waste on the planet needs to be regulated.
Republicans have grown increasingly doubtful about climate change, even as Democrats have grown increasingly convinced that it’s happening and is caused by humans, Republicans nationwide say that climate change is caused mostly by human activities, while nearly half say it’s mostly due to “natural changes in the environment.”
What I believe is true, is that humans have been the cause of environmental change throughout history, from what I understand the world has been changing ever since life has started, when people were able to document the climate the world has not stopped changing climate wise but from my research I have found that from the past few years the world has gotten worse with climate change/global warming because of the burning of fossil fuels and the CO2 emissions from cars as well as carbon footprint of
people alone has affected the planet and its atmosphere for hundreds of years.
There is no saying how long the earth will last if we don’t change what we are doing now I know that most scientists will say that it is too late to change what has already been broken but I believe that we could change what is going on and stretch the lifespan of the earth if we just change what we are doing now.
I wonder if both sides would agree that climate change is caused by humans and what we do to the earth from what we buy to how we eat if the world would be willing to change its lifestyle for the better of the planet, in these bad times we are in.
Elise Vogel
As you can tell the world is changing around us, in Alaska it has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the nation, bringing a widespread catastrophe.
Sea ice is rapidly receding and glaciers are getting smaller. Thawing of the glaciers is leading to more wildfire, and affecting everything with wildlife and habitat. Rising ocean temperatures and acidification in the ocean will alter valuable marine fish.
Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, what we do from today forward makes a big difference. Depending on our choices, scientists predict that the Earth could eventually warm by as little as 2.5 degrees or even 10 degrees. In different countries other than America the greatest decreases in crop yields from climate change will likely occur in dry and tropical regions. In some African countries, for example, wheat yields could decline by as much as 35% by 2050.
Climate change is most likely going to affect global, regional, and local food by disrupting food availability, decreasing access to food, and making utilization more difficult, so if we changed and cut down the meat industries we would have less CO2 in the air which would help the climate and have less waste on the planet.
But I do want us to change theses things with the right motivation form both sides of the government.
The government might agree on carbon taxing witch would most definitely reduce the carbon in the air by a lot, I feel both sides would share the common goal of not wanting the planet to die in the next hundred or so years.
Fewer than a third of registered Republicans nationwide say that climate change is caused mostly by human activities, while nearly half say it’s mostly due to “natural changes in the environment.”
Republicans in the New York City area are about twice as likely to agree that human activities are driving global warming as their counterparts in Montana witch think it just natural for the environment to change.
Our solution to climate change and global warming would be getting rid of gas-powered cars and using electric instead. As well as electricity from the sun instead of what we do now, and to shrink our CO2/carbon footprint making vegan more of an option for people and not killing and polluting our planet more than we already have by killing things that the earth gives us.
We could also make buildings out of recycled materials as well as create biodegradable houses so we do not have the waste that destroys the ground with plowing and pouring cement for a house that someone most like will not stay in for the entire lifespan of the house, and the same goes for cars all of the parts in a car do not biodegrade and just leaves waist as well as all the CO2 that it creates for making the car and from what it creates itself.
When people eat meat it creates so much carbon in the atmosphere that destroys the climate which causes it to change, to build a world that is entirely vegan and plant-based would be my dream goal if I ever have the chance.
In my opinion, Climate change is legitimately happening around us I am on the liberal side of climate change and how the world should be changed.
We need to regulate the plastic and waste on the planet needs to be regulated.
Republicans have grown increasingly doubtful about climate change, even as Democrats have grown increasingly convinced that it’s happening and is caused by humans, Republicans nationwide say that climate change is caused mostly by human activities, while nearly half say it’s mostly due to “natural changes in the environment.”
What I believe is true, is that humans have been the cause of environmental change throughout history, from what I understand the world has been changing ever since life has started, when people were able to document the climate the world has not stopped changing climate wise but from my research I have found that from the past few years the world has gotten worse with climate change/global warming because of the burning of fossil fuels and the CO2 emissions from cars as well as carbon footprint of
people alone has affected the planet and its atmosphere for hundreds of years.
There is no saying how long the earth will last if we don’t change what we are doing now I know that most scientists will say that it is too late to change what has already been broken but I believe that we could change what is going on and stretch the lifespan of the earth if we just change what we are doing now.
I wonder if both sides would agree that climate change is caused by humans and what we do to the earth from what we buy to how we eat if the world would be willing to change its lifestyle for the better of the planet, in these bad times we are in.
Beautiful words
2/1/18
By: Elise M Vogel
Beautiful words never were spoken,
I will not feel it,
My soul unmovable,
All I hear are simple whispers,
Like a little rain on the ocean of my thoughts
It will never be as simple as a thimble,
I won’t take your comments,
Genuine, or postiche
Nothing holds me, hostage,
I have been told
“You are beautiful”
“you are strong”
“you are important”
Nothing holds my hope,
No advantage to my broken soul,
You can tell me a million times
Yet it all feels unspoken,
Oh, beautiful words,
I will tell myself I’m not enough anyway,
I’m not beautiful,
I’m not strong,
I’m not important,
But that is what makes me move on,
All of the mistakes,
The fact that no one will notice me.
All I can hear is pain of others from there heart,
Not there simple words,
Yet they all still try,
I won’t take your beautiful words,
Dancing on your tongue,
But my heart is nothing you can buy,
With your dancing words,
Spilling out of your mouth.
Trying to fix my broken heart with words
Is as useless as trying to fix my soul,
Beautiful words,
Your words don’t affect me
Why tell me?
if all I hear is defect.
2/1/18
By: Elise M Vogel
Beautiful words never were spoken,
I will not feel it,
My soul unmovable,
All I hear are simple whispers,
Like a little rain on the ocean of my thoughts
It will never be as simple as a thimble,
I won’t take your comments,
Genuine, or postiche
Nothing holds me, hostage,
I have been told
“You are beautiful”
“you are strong”
“you are important”
Nothing holds my hope,
No advantage to my broken soul,
You can tell me a million times
Yet it all feels unspoken,
Oh, beautiful words,
I will tell myself I’m not enough anyway,
I’m not beautiful,
I’m not strong,
I’m not important,
But that is what makes me move on,
All of the mistakes,
The fact that no one will notice me.
All I can hear is pain of others from there heart,
Not there simple words,
Yet they all still try,
I won’t take your beautiful words,
Dancing on your tongue,
But my heart is nothing you can buy,
With your dancing words,
Spilling out of your mouth.
Trying to fix my broken heart with words
Is as useless as trying to fix my soul,
Beautiful words,
Your words don’t affect me
Why tell me?
if all I hear is defect.