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 Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:23 pm
What got you into helping the environment?
For me it was way back in the early 90's when i was a kid i would always watch captain planet and how those kids would try to save the enviroment from people who wanted to destroy it. Watching That cartoon really got me into helping the environmet. Since then i always try to get other people to do something.
I know there are alot of different ways that gets people into it, but what is your story?
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:27 pm
My Dad got me interested in environmental issues initially, although eventually my views evolved to become more radical than his. When I was a kid, he was a member of a local environmental group and used to protest against housing estates being built in the countryside. I started going along to meetings, attending demonstrations and writing letters of objection to housing planning applications at quite a young age and it developed from there.
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:47 pm
I'm really not sure. Maybe the people who came into my preschool or kindergarten to talk about it. I honestly don't remember...just that I've always been an advocate for the environment and will always continue to be. smile
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:27 pm
I was always sort of concerned about global warming ever since I heard about it. Then I joined the environment club at my high school and that's when I really got into it. Both of my sisters were interested in the environment too... so I guess I was encouraged/inspired?
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:21 pm
Well, it all began whenever Al Gore's movie were all just rumors and such, details that leaked out to the interwebs.
It wasn't Al Gore that convinced me though, I was a bit of a science geek and was intensely fascinated by all these green technologies, I would hear about these new cleaner forms of energy and all of this talk about the hydrogen economy and I was positively thrilled.
Then, I took a more serious turn whenever I read "Plan B 2.0" by Lester Brown (now it's Plan B 3.0), it described a world that would be so much more different and dire then what the media said, on the few occasions it did mention global warming or deforestation. This future terrified me, yet thrilled me at the same time when he mentioned the solutions, that's whenever I really got active.
It was a while before I read "The World Without Us" which absolutely changed my whole perspective. Before, I cared about the environment only because it impacted humans, afterwards I seemed to really care about every single creature, and even the plants, on the planet. That book can really affect you.
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