Some Articles from our HNP Volunteers
Smoke billows in great heaps above a dry, smouldering forest. Thick ash darkens skies across the country, as far east as New Zealand. Entire towns are reduced to skeletal wreckages; evacuees gather in terrified groups on beaches that were once the image of an Australian summer holiday. Injured wildlife recover in loungerooms, turned into makeshift outpatient wards…
Climate change is an existential threat. Mostly framed around human existence, we cannot forget that threat extends to much more than humans. There are few, if any, species of life on Earth that will not be affected by climate change. Many already are. Conservation, with its key function of preserving the natural environment and all that lives within it, is inextricably linked to climate change. Conservation has a central role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation and adaptation exist in tandem in the response to climate change; our most effective responses require elements of each.
Social media is a platform for each person of the world to discuss different issues and as well explain their own ideas and share the staff that they think it worth it to share. But yet lots of people even now don’t know what social media is and what is the difference between mass media and social media? So social media are computer tools that allow us to share or exchange ideas, information, emotions, memories and even more with each other through a particular network. Through this paper, I will focus on the positive aspect of social media in environmental awareness and education.
To the people who act for life,
You know we are all connected to the Earth. Yet few of us act for it. And those who do, do so alone. This needs to change.
On 15th March, 150,000 students across my home country, Australia, chose to follow the example of a single Swedish girl the same age as myself and strike against our widespread inaction against climate change. After decades of denial, popular pressure for environmentally sustainable policies is mounting at a rate never before seen. This is overwhelmingly positive news… and yet it is not enough.
It’s no myth.
Modern people just don’t get nature. Scientists can speak all they want about ‘nature deficit disorder’ and other mumbo-jumbo, but at the heart of it, it really is simple. We just don’t believe that we need nature anymore.
The very act of naming it, of categorizing it, separates us. First Nations people speak of life as a whole, one single, cohesive unit without parallel. Why don’t we?
