What is the most effective way to get people concerned about their planet?
Preferably something short and simple that really hammers home the point, or tugs at the heart-strings.
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Umm i think movies affect me the most, the moving images and sounds make the most impact. Movies like Day after tomorrw, Water World, Jurassic Park etc made a lot of impact and the dicussions with my class after the viewing were exicting for me - because i could not only get across the message of the movie but also the syllabus i was teaching.
Besides taking the people for an excursion into the dumps, near the sewage plant or a certain scene is effective. We in india make ganesh idols and after worshiping them for 14 days, sumberge them in any water body especially the sea. This traditions of bringing idols home was started 300 years ago by lokmanya tilak - the idols were made of the pond clay which would dissolve without difficulty when sumberged into the waters. But now a days we use plaster of paris to make bigger grander idols. These dont dissolve well and hence we see the sea shore littered with the half dissolved desolate remains of our beloved ganesh - the elephant headed god. Not only this, the paints used to decorate the idols are poisonous but also the abulations litter the beaches!
I take my students to see this scene and since last two years we make a group to cleanup the beach - this activity lasts for 50 minutes.
We ask the students to suggest various other ways of pleasing the lord ganpati (he can do without this insult).
They suggested making pondclay idols again or keeping the idol at home to use for the next year only symbolically seeing the lord off for the year(recycling the idol - gods are wise, they will understand. Also i want them to understand that these only rituals made by us). They suggested using natural colours like turmeric for yellow, juice of hibiscus for purple, indian goosberry for black etc.
These are simple.
We bring out the seperation and recyling of waste matter and how much energy and resources it saves.
The Songs: We are the world by Micheal Jackson
and the song from Pocahontas
Song: Colors Of The Wind Lyrics
You think I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me
Now can there be so much that you don't know?
You don't know ...
You think you own whatever land you land on
The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know every rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name
You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hoop that never ends
How high will the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind
You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind
I will just leave it at this or it will become a huge lecture from me to you. :)
Hope this helps. :)
regards
ritu
Make them personally uncomfortable.
Like i know noone Cares
Sex sells? Portay mother earth as a milf in whatever campaign you're running?
awareness is the word.
I got easier way. FREE IPOD.
Make it so that it affects them personally. Then they will know what it means to care for the planet.
Tell them this ozone thing and global warming started when they first made cars that ran on gas and with the population that are driving now is not going to help, but if people quit cutting down trees and instead plant some , it could help those effects and save our air source
Education and facts are good.
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