While working on my pre-writing pyramid today I chose to try to come up with three questions/ solutions to how we should live (ethics) because that is the issue I think about on a personal level all of the time. One of my responses to this portion of the work sheet was that we should live with current human issues in mind such as how to empower peoples marginalized by imperialism, how to empower woman, and how to create a way to live that is sustainable for our planet. These issues are huge and how do they really relate to one another. If you help allot of people come out of poverty, you tend to over use resources more quickly. Can part of the solution even be linked to people living a certin way?
I was overwhelmed by these questions by just thinking about them and feeling really low for a while. After doing some research I found some good starting point responses to these questions. I watched tons of ted talks!! I have attached one of my favorites so far. It is a talk given by Jane Goodall who I know now should be everybody's hero. She speaks about how humans and animals are correlated and things that we can do to mend our problematic relationship with nature. Watch this video there is a link right down there VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
Jane Goodall helps humans and animals live together | Video on TED.com
It is really inspirational to me because you can tell that Jane has really spent her whole life and career thinking about these issues and has come up with wonderful cohesive solutions. I enjoy that she has advice, often we here the statistics and the problems with no way to practically apply any solution to what we have just learned. I feel that her philosophy has to do with thinking about every aspect to a problem and seeing conservation and human needs as one united issue. She also emphasizes personal responsibility which was eye opening for me. You don't think that turing the lights off when your not using them, or mending old jeans instead of buying and buying and buying more makes a difference but after listening to this talk I realize that it can, and that we as westerners need to be very conscious of how we utilize resources. We have the power to make so many things better in the world but also to make so many things much worse. Let me know what you all think. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
P.S. There is a really nice 1960's documentary done by national geographic about Jane and the chimps during her early years. I used to watch it over and over when I was a child. I think it is called "My Life Among the Wild Chimpanzees". That would be good to watch if you enjoyed this talk.
I was overwhelmed by these questions by just thinking about them and feeling really low for a while. After doing some research I found some good starting point responses to these questions. I watched tons of ted talks!! I have attached one of my favorites so far. It is a talk given by Jane Goodall who I know now should be everybody's hero. She speaks about how humans and animals are correlated and things that we can do to mend our problematic relationship with nature. Watch this video there is a link right down there VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
It is really inspirational to me because you can tell that Jane has really spent her whole life and career thinking about these issues and has come up with wonderful cohesive solutions. I enjoy that she has advice, often we here the statistics and the problems with no way to practically apply any solution to what we have just learned. I feel that her philosophy has to do with thinking about every aspect to a problem and seeing conservation and human needs as one united issue. She also emphasizes personal responsibility which was eye opening for me. You don't think that turing the lights off when your not using them, or mending old jeans instead of buying and buying and buying more makes a difference but after listening to this talk I realize that it can, and that we as westerners need to be very conscious of how we utilize resources. We have the power to make so many things better in the world but also to make so many things much worse. Let me know what you all think. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
P.S. There is a really nice 1960's documentary done by national geographic about Jane and the chimps during her early years. I used to watch it over and over when I was a child. I think it is called "My Life Among the Wild Chimpanzees". That would be good to watch if you enjoyed this talk.
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