My mother and I talked for around 20 minutes, and basically what we covered was how a lot of people are in denial of climate change and why that is. The hardest thing about addressing it would therefore be first acknowledging that it exists and that it isn't going to stop or go away if we ignore it. Something will have to be done about it, or it will continue to get worse. It may not even be 'global warming' that seems to be so controversial everywhere, the type of deal where people are imagining a picture of the earth being put in a microwave and left to warm. The climate is changing, be it warm, cool, or both and more.
Certain things that go on make this inevitable. Cutting down forests means less oxygen and greater wind strengths around the world, along with sands being able to move it and turn the land into more desert.
One of the things that was in most people's minds about the earth and how it's being treated is something along the lines of; I'm only one small person, and the world is so huge, how can I even have an impact, be it negative or positive? The same feelings are put towards what people feel they can do about the climate change and how to potentially reverse negative effects of it.
One of the points I brought up was kind of an analogy about how when someone wants to get a pet, all of their friends and family warn them to get a plant first and keep it alive for a year. Then move up to a fish, and from there maybe a cat, then a dog, and slowly work their way up to harder pets to care for. The way it worked for us as humans is, we got the earth, and we skipped all the other steps that prepared us for taking care of such responsibilities. Now that we've begun to realize this, we have to figure out a way to reverse some of the harm we've done, and turn it around to where we start taking better care of the earth instead of just using it for our needs and then moving on.
My mother feels that just in small cases where people have started growing their own gardens at home or with a community it's making a huge difference. Even by people coming to small realizations that something needs to be done, and taking enough charge of their own situations to start a garden, they're starting with that first step of taking a plant and working their way up to greater responsibility.
The second people realize that they don't have to take on the challenge of fixing everything that's going on in the world, things will start to change, and even if it's just recycling one little bottle cap that you happened to find laying on the ground, hey, it's a start.
