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03. The topic of climate change arouses a number of strong emotions in people.

Asked by: Lycée Pasteur | Colegio Cooperativo San Felipe

a) Write down your emotional feelings for the words “anger, responsibility, hope and indifference” in connection with the topic of climate change.

 

b) Which kind of emotion do you feel most strongly in connection with the topic of climate change? (This does not have to be one of the four mentioned above). Explain the reasons why.

A) Emotions, feelings... all taking part in all our lives. Just like Neil Gaiman wisely representend as the endless in his comic The Sandman: dream, destiny, desire, despair, delirum, destruction and death. They will all takepart in our lives, and they trascend culture, time and space. Everyone and everywhere will succumb to this emotions. But its up to us how to face them. How, then, could we face, for example, destruction? Not with fear and reluctance, but with the conviencement that some things disappear to let some others have place in our world. How do we face despair, if we don't realice that whithin despair hope is reformed and transformed. Every problem can be a chance to show the best of our selves.

 

B) More than feelings we think that this are attitudes towards certain factors, in this case, trying to think about environmental responsability. Pehaps none of us has ever felt something so deep with that subject, althought we have experienced the consequences. But as young people, and aware of the problems climate change causes, we think that the most terrible attitude to have is indifference. Because knowing and doing nothing is as well as not knowing anything at all. It's not worth a life of achievements and recognition if we on't put it in practice. That lack of commitment can sometimes make us angry, specially against some policiy makers.

 

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