I was reading an article today about combating climate change on the online Guardian website and it reminded me of a conversation me and my mum had the other day. We were talking about how the seasons all seem to have blurred into each other now (we seem to miss out the majority of summer) When I was a bit younger the sun was always shining in "summer" and snow fell in winter, but now we get a few days a year that we can barely call summer and snow appears in April! I remember being taught about the seasons in primary school, we would make bright colourful pictures in the summer and snowy xmas cards in the winter. But what do we teach children now that the seasons are barely separated from one another? When does summer end and autumn begin? Afterall its a bit unfair to psych children up for a white christmas when snow doesnt come until the latter part of "spring". Obviously teaching children about the seasons its a tiny part of this global problem. We need to seriously crack down on carbon emission and other contributing factors to the global warming thats slowly but surely altering our planet for the worst. Money needs to be invested by the government if we are "to show we are serious about enabling the massive transformation to clean future we'll be in touble without" (guardian). Serious investments need to be made if we are going to save the future of the planet, not just cash investments but investments in a new ways of life, we cant continue as a global nation to use more resources that we have or give off more carbon than the world can cope with. Clearly some countires have a much larger carbon footprint that other and we do need to see bigger changes from the big offenders but when it comes down to it we all need to pull together and try and tackle this together. The sad thing is everyone knows this, everyone knows something has to be done, everyone can see that the planet is in far from perfect condition but not enough is being done. We need to "think big" not just as designers but as a whole global nation, we need some big changes to happen if we are ever going to sustain our planet for future generations and ... I want summer back!
The Guardian article can be found here: :)
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