Final Blog

There have been so many highlights of learning in this class this semester. It has completely opened my eyes even more to the environment and how we treat it and the class has also made me more of a pain in the butt to shop with.

I am so thankful that we are more educated on various topics and that we are now ready to share our new knowledge with family, friends, and the community. Also with strangers too, lol!

I really enjoyed blogging with Angela and Matt! It was great to read about their perspective on the topics.

Some of the modules I wish we talked about as a class instead of just among the 3 of us because a lot of the the blogs would have been great discussions in class.

A few highlights I take away from this class is, I should be a hippy, I am not as green as I thought I was, my skin care products are causing more damage than good, disinfecting wipes are not helping anything, I should live in a bubble because everything causes cancer, and bleach is the devil!

M12: 9 Climate Change

1. What do you personally find most troubling about climate change?

What I find most troubling personally about climate change is the misconception people have about it or that people do not know that it exists! Am I mistaken that Trump said that climate change is not a real thing?? If he did in fact say that, I find it sickening, not troubling, that someone in charge of this country would say something like that. Like hello, haven’t you read about the glaciers and hungry polar bears? So yeah, misinformation being given or advertised is very troubling to me!

2. As a public health professional, what do you think needs the greatest attention right now?

OMG I have to pick just one thing that needs the greatest attention? I feel like I am going to pick the wrong thing but I would say that the health of our earth needs great attention. I say the earth because the land is vital to most things and if we take care of that then people and animals will be healthy as well. 

3. If you were visiting with a long-lost relative who had never heard about climate change, how would you describe it and its attendant human health and ecological threats?

I would describe climate change as the weather being unpredictable and off. Like it is hot out when it is supposed to be raining by now. Or climate change is because of fire smoke being the new normal. Human health is suffering because of the unpredictable atmosphere

M11:5 A Zero Waste Life

After watching and reading the assignments in Module 11, I came to the realization that I would not survive a Zero Waste lifestyle. At first, I just thought about food waste but then I thought about all of my hobbies that come with packaging or fabric waste that come from project scraps. After listening to the TED talk video, I feel like a hoarder and that I need to do some deep spring cleaning! 

While watching the food waste video with john oliver, I honestly got annoyed with him and stopped watching about 9 minutes in to be completely honest. I felt he was yelling and pointing his finger at America, or whoever his viewers are, for being a part of food waste. I got frustrated because as my blogging partners and I learned in our behavior change class, people do not like to be told what to do, especially in an aggressive manor. He was being too aggressive in my opinion without having any credibility to his name. In the nine out of 17 minutes that I watched john oliver talk about food waste, I was saying “who the hell are you?” I am a public health person and I was getting pissed with his platform but it is because it was his approach of information. I feel he should have had an environmental scientist or someone with credentials on his show to talk about food waste. It made me think of the exercise we did in class last week asking is the person credible and do we trust them? Did he even mention at the end if he lives a Zero Waste life? I doubt it he is but maybe I am wrong since he is schooling us on food waste!

I already shop with reusable shopping bags so that is the change I have already done years ago. I have thought about taking cloth bags if I buy bulk but I would be buying the bags or making the bags, which will be contributing to waste. it is a vicious cycle!