Blog Action Day 2009

I love Blog Action Day and its intention. The idea of trying to bring many individual voices together in order to bring attention to one important issue.

This year’s topic is Climate Change. And to be honest, that means very little to me and I’m a bit disappointed. 2007’s topic was Environment already. And I understand they’re different, but they’re still very closely related. Couldn’t we find a more pressing issue? Maybe it’s me being selfish, but the economy and the employment market worry me a lot more than climate change right now.

I believe that no matter what we do, there’s really not much of a difference we can make. You can lower your carbon footprint, change simple things and habits to be more environment friendly… But it’s all mostly politics. And unless the ones in charge make the important decisions and the changes that must happen for them to work out, anything you do isn’t really going to have much of an effect.

I’ll still do my part, the simple things and habits that are within my power to change. But I don’t think it’s really all that helpful. Actually, some of those are more helpful to me personally on a financial level that anything else, I believe.

That being said, it is important to keep pressuring the said ones in charge. And for that, I’m all for.

Sorry I don’t have much more to add or contribute, it’s just not my thing, I guess.