Monday 16 May 2011

REFLECTION ON “AN INCONVENIENCE TRUTH”

After watching the video “An inconvenience truth” I realised that global warming is serious! And feel emotional after watched the video, because what Mr. Gore says in the video are the information that most of the people already know, but we just ignore it, because we didn’t feel any bad causes by this problems yet, we are still live in a convenience and comfortable world these day. But if we keep ignoring this issue, our world will be destroyed shortly one day.
From the video, I realised how important it is now for us to save our planet in order to save our next generation. From all the data show in the video, I get a clear image of what will happened if we don’t do anything to reduce the damage to our planet, which the planet will be destroy for sure.
More big natural disasters happened in the world these days; this is due to the human-induced changes in earth’s atmosphere. For example, human produced pollution that damages our atmosphere. By increase of the disaster all over the world, we are experiencing the beginning of the planet destroy.
From the video, it shows us the increased temperatures are causing the icebergs and glaciers to melt. They directly affect the sea level and salinity of the oceans. It is notable that such simple changes like the melting of huge ice can have so many disastrous effects on the natural environment around the world. And it also makes the people who live there homeless. Since the population growth, more spaces are needed for people to live, so it is bad if the population increase, but the land size is decrease and more population means more natural resources are going to be used.
Economic vs. environment is a big problem, many people nowadays care more about the economic than the environment. They do something that benefits the economic, which damage the environment at the same time. They think economic is more important for our world, but without the planet we lived, there will be nothing.
Like what Mr. Gore said, both economic and environment can be benefit at the same time, I strongly agree with this too. So as a designer, I think it is our job to design the products that are more environmental and eco-friendly to our planet and reduce as much pollution as possible while produce the products.

In conclusion,
without proper actions on our part, the end of the world would definitely become a reality. As a designer, I think its part of our job to design the products to reduce these problems, therefore save our planet.

Monday 9 May 2011

PEER COMMENTS

Xiao, RuYu Julia
Li, XiaoLing Susanna
Wang, FanRu
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