Posts Tagged ‘mass movement’
Business - Written Friday, February 15, 2008 by Ming Kwan - 3 Comments
Too Much Climate Change Activism?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for the mass movement to curb global warming and all that…. But has anyone else noticed something interesting. There has been a lot of talk about it. (Almost) Everyone knows that it’s basically an inevitable truth … so why does it seem like nothing’s being done?
Well, to the contrary – there’s a lot being done. Perhaps, too much being done. Now, this is just a theory of mine, but I would argue that there are too many different ‘curb climate change’ initiatives going on. There’re so many, that people get confused, don’t know what to do, don’t know where to start.
For example, Al Gore gets credit for getting the ball rolling with his documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth”, and as I pointed out in a previous blog post– that really spiked people’s interest in the topic of global warming. Gore also has affiliations with the ‘Alliance for Climate Protection’, a web 2.0 initiative to raise awareness about global warming and things you can do. But here’s the thing – I was charged a little while ago to go searching for some ‘mass collaboration’ projects on the web dealing with climate change, and I found over 20 different websites, blogs, social networks and mashups.


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