Global warming
and climate change has always been an interesting debate between politicians
and scientists in the last decade or some. For some, like Al Gore’s “An
inconvenient truth”, I urges people that global warming is happening, and
happening at an exponential rate. I found his film very engaging with his
presentation of data and facts in a very visual and comparative method. His
delivery of outcomes and consequences to the result of global warming, if not
acted upon to be extremely provocative and a real sense of fear and
responsibility is truly driven to our senses.
Others, argues
that global warming is over rated, inaccurate and says that such a claim as an
intellectual fraud for Al Gore to use such an issue as a foothold for his next
presidential run.
Whatever it is,
there is no harm in making the Earth a greener and cleaner environment, right?
I have always
been aware that our daily activity has some sort of impact to our environment,
but it was not until I watched this video that I was fully aware the extent of
damage we are doing. As Al Gore said:
”each one of us
is a cause to global warming, but each one of us can make choices to change
that with the things we buy, the car we use, we can make choices to bring our
individual carbon emissions to zero…”
While that is
true, I feel a sense that as designers it is our responsibility (as well as
scientists and engineers) to produce products to help consumers make that
choice. There is no use if the community does want to make choices for a
greener environment without the option or resources to do so.
I believe this is
a new direction for all emerging industrial designers that whether if you do
believe in the occurrence of global warming, there is no harm in reducing
carbon emission and toxic byproducts.
