First Blog...

• At the moment many people are worried about environmentalism even if they don't know it. Many people are scared about Global Warming and chemicals that affect nature (DDT).
  
• In the 18th Century is really when environmentalism started: the government started getting worried about the amount of lumber being used and the forests that were being deforested to build ships. In 1962, when the thought of having huge industrialized cities blowing smoke into the world and chemical plants that would poison everyone and deforestation of the world, Rachel Carson wrote the book Silent Spring. It talked about how everything was dying off as all the animals such as fish and pigs could not be found or born. Then people started getting worried about the environment, which is when the big environmentalist organizations like Green Peace and Friends of the Earth began.
  
• Now there are major movements promoting environmentalism by Green Peace, along with the Green parties in the government who campaign for saving the environment. Then there's April 22nd, which is the annual Earth Day, where children are taught about what's happening to Earth. Last week, I read an article in the "Times"saying that Kyoto had decided to stop using cars or electricity for on day a week, and the only transportation citizens could use were the local bus.
• I would intend to learn about the Green parties political agendas and how they intend to support environmentalism if they were elected and how Global Warming has changed and what chemicals were banned with the help of environmentalist movements.
  
• Mostly I am interested in how Global Warming has changed and what governments around the world are doing to help save the world (similar to Kyoto).