My Take in Solving Global Warming

For today's blog, I guess, I am deviating from the normal classroom topics. We are now on the last leg of our free speech course, and I just want to share my little piece of advocacy, if I may call it as such, to every member in my group called the Movement for Free Speech group. I am an active member of the Sierra Club. I am also present in the SC Online Community, an action that I am doing as my small contribution to the world's global warming problem. I have decided to take on this action in order to leave our children a living legacy — clean air, clean water, and natural grandeur.

I would like to share with you that the Sierra Club has been instrumental in preserving wilderness, wildlife and nature's most splendid wild places. We also have the Sierra Student Coalition for those of you who might be interested. It is the student arm of the Sierra Club, which is a broad network of students from around the country working to protect the environment. It is my strong belief that students can be a big part of the grassroots action movement in fighting global warming!

Let’s help preserve irreplaceable wildlands and wildlife. There's just too many of us in the world today! Did you know that during the 20th century, human population multiplied from 1.6 billion to 6.1 billion people, and that heat trapping carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions grew twelve fold?

So you might say, "So what does population have to do with global warming?" Plenty! Population growth, global warming and consumption patterns are linked in the collective global environmental impact. The Summer Program of the Sierra Club, which is the Student Environmental Leadership Training Program, trains students every summer since its formation in 1991 as the Sierra Student Coalition. We have held week long training programs to give students skills and knowledge to successfully become agents of change in their communities. One will learn planning and running campaigns. Students also receive training on how to communicate effectively and build campus environmental groups.

This is something to think about as the Climate Challenge is heating up. There has has never been a better time when student organizers are more needed than now. The Student Coalition trains students during the summer break, so if you haven't been to one of these programs before, please give it a try -- we owe it to our planet. Please sign up immediately at http://www.ssc.org