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3 PH 101 Oct 12 #1 KQED Perspectives Submission Role of Students in Pollution Prevention The role of the youth of this generation is required to spread awareness against climate change Oct 12 With the outbreak of recent coronavirus pandemic many of the population of the world have become quite concerned about climate change and its ultimate effects but can have a huge impact on the future generation. Climate change has been a constant to raising concern but many of the educations from the past have not quite concentrated on it. But some recent activities relating to climate change have been an eye-opening event for many us and they are taking proactive actions in order to create a solution for climate change actions. Growing up in the first world, the effects of climate change has always been quite here to me and that if I from a very young age and has started to find solution for the prevention of pollution at a basic scale. It is when we have started learning about the negative effects of climate change and how it can influence the living creatures of the planet. We are starting to learn that the future of our generation and the next generation is at Angel during the constant rise of climate change and that is why we wanted to start doing some projects to create collaboration with other students of our school to form a group for spreading awareness (Sartika & I.). Once we started to make progress about it started doing a survey to understand that how concerned the rest of the world is about climate change and its drastic effect that will be on the people of the world. From the server we have understood that the science-based knowledge about climate change and its horrific effects are not knowledgeable to many people and that is why the unnecessary use of various objects catering to pollution are constantly growing (Schmaltz et al.). Especially in a first world country the industrial waste of plastic is a huge factor and many of the people are not aware of the fact. The results from the survey have taught us how important it is to make an impact among student for them to understand the effects of climate change and its destructive power. That is why, we have felt that as a student it is our duty spread awareness among our fears and other people to know about the consumption of plastic and other objects that can cause pollution and we should also actively work on preaching about climate change and its bad effects (Sandu). We believe that a small contribution to the society regarding the awareness will help the society to learn more about climate change and they will be able to reduce it. Despite our noble enthusiasm, it is important for the world leaders to contribute in this Endeavour and create certain laws and regulations to use of plastic and other objects that cause pollution (Spencer Jr). I believe that some changes and maintenance of our constitution need to be made for the people to abide by that. It is also important to have the support of the international associations like United Nations to work on teaching the foul effects of pollution to people for creating differentiation in the society. Works Cited Sandu, Cristina, et al. "Society Role in the Reduction of Plastic Pollution." (2020): 1-27. Sartika, R., and I. Kurniawaty. "Establishment of student characters as citarum river pollution solution program." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 683. No. 1. IOP Publishing, 2021. Schmaltz, Emma, et al. "Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collect marine plastic pollution." Environment International 144 (2020): 106067. Spencer Jr, Erwin A. "Analysis of Pollution Prevention Business Case Analyses." (2021). Media Advocacy Assignment 2021/11/6 下午9:39 Media Advocacy Assignment https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1505977/assignments/8283042 1/8 Media Advocacy Assignment Due Oct 18 by 11:59pm Points 50 Submitting a file upload New Attempt Instructions Communicate the importance of a sustainability related topic that you’ve learned about in this class to the public (can be local, state, national or international level) through either 1) a KQED Perspectives piece or 2) an op-ed/letter to the editor. While this is technically an opinion piece, it is important that all of your arguments are backed up with concrete data/evidence. Strong op-ed articles have a convincing, straightforward, well-argued call to action. We will not require you to submit the article for publication, however, those students who have their article submitted and published will receive 5% extra credit toward their overall grade in the class. Due Date Due by Monday 10/18 at 11:59pm Guidelines 1. Choose a media outlet (one of two options below) 2. Recommend a solution that focuses on systemic changes for what you think should be done. 3. Your piece should be clearly written, with one or two main points. 4. Present fresh facts or a unique perspective. Remember, creativity increases the chance that your piece will be considered for publication. 5. Include at least three sources using any formal citation style with which you are familiar. In-text citations and a works cited page/bibliography is required. Make sure your sources are credible! See this web resource (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/resources.html) for assistance with citations. 6. Your piece should be around 500 words, font size 12 and around 1-inch margins. Media Outlets Choose ONE of the following media outlets to submit your opinion piece: #1: Perspectives Submission to KQED Write the script for an opinion piece that could be aired on KQED. See official submission guidelines here (https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/perspectives-submissions-guidelines) . NOTE: If you are interested in submitting your piece to KQED and having it accepted, please note that they prefer discussions about regional or personal concerns over international issues. 2021/11/6 下午9:39 Media Advocacy Assignment https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1505977/assignments/8283042 2/8 #2: Letter to the Editor/ Op-ed Respond to and reference a news article that was published within the last month. Note that newspapers are typically interested in letters that link directly to a recent article they have published. We recommend reviewing this guide (https://commskit.duke.edu/writing-media/writing-effective- op-eds/) for writing a strong op-ed. When submitting your assignment to this class, please include a copy of the original news article. Examples: #1. KQED Perspectives Submission Grace Jones: Youth and Climate Change Oct 22, 2020 Grace Jones says the urgency of climate change is motivating her generation to political activism. We hear the words climate change all the time. On the news, during debates. For many it's faded into the background, softened into something too far in the future to have any effect. But if we're looking at the facts, that's not the truth. We see the effects of climate change every day. As the climate becomes hotter, the snowpack decreases. Growing up in California, this relationship between climate and water has always been clear to me. The state has been in drought for more than half my life. And it's not just rain that's affected by climate change. According to the EPA, rising temperatures are increasing the number and severity of wildfires. In this year alone, more than 4 million acres burned in California. We’ve all walked outside and seen an ash gray sky, the sun a pale orange circle just visible through the haze. This stunned me at first because in my little coastal town the air always seemed clean and filled with the scents of redwood forests in our hills and the Pacific Ocean at our shore. I'm scared of what the world will be like when I'm an adult. And if I'm thinking that now, what about when the next generation are adults? We have a duty, not just to today's world, but to all future generations to work hard to solve this huge problem we've created. Last year I marched down streets and went to rallies filled with children carrying signs saying Climate Justice Now! The thing is, the youth can and will make an impact, but nothing will change unless those who have the power of voting elect those who will work hard for us all. We need leaders who will, in the words of the Preamble to the Constitution, establish Justice, promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity by ensuring that, someday, our posterity has the chance to live in a world where no one has to worry about smoke-colored skies or drought. 2021/11/6 下午9:39 Media Advocacy Assignment https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1505977/assignments/8283042 3/8 With a Perspective, I’m Grace Jones. Grace Jones is 14 and attends the Kirby School in Santa Cruz. Her Perspective was produced by KQED Learn for its Let's Talk About Election 2020 youth media challenge. Hear more student voices at learn.kqed.org (https://learn.kqed.org/) . Source: https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601140347/grace-jones-youth-and-climate- change (https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601140347/grace-jones-youth-and-climate-change) #2. Op-Ed/ Letter to the Editor Opinion: We must consider the profound toll of climate change on public health Opinion by Vijay Limaye August 9, 2021 at 1:22 p.m. EDT Vijay Limaye is a climate and health scientist at the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council. The expenses of this summer’s grim and growing list of historic environmental disasters are staggering. We are already paying for decades of government inaction on the accelerating climate crisis through crop losses (https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2021/07/record-heat- wave-scorches-crops-across-oregon-and-drought-could-worsen-loss-to-growers.html) , social disruption and severely damaged homes (https://www.usnews.com/news/best- states/michigan/articles/2021-06-28/people-suffering-from-flood-parts-of-i-94-still-closed) , and infrastructure (https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1011269025/photos-the-pacific-northwest- heatwave-is-melting-power-cables-and-buckling-roads) built on the assumption of a stable climate. These costs are likely to worsen without action, as a recent U.N. report (https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/08/09/ipcc-climate-report-global- warming-greenhouse-gas-effect/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3) makes clear. But there's another serious cost that's hard to quantify: the profound toll of climate change on public health. We need to fix how we account for this mounting problem — and soon. Due to fossil fuel-generated climate pollution that is accumulating in the atmosphere, once unthinkable extremes have become commonplace this summer. Recent events vividly demonstrate the range of menacing climate risks that endanger our country from coast to coast. The Pacific Northwest and California recently set scores of high-temperature records in an intense heat wave that experts found to be “virtually impossible (https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-american-extreme-heat-virtually-impossible- without-human-caused-climate-change/) ” without climate change. Early reports (https://flashalert.net/id/OSPOre/146352) indicate that nearly 200 people died from heat-related illness in Oregon (https://flashalert.net/id/OSPOre/146352) and Washington 2021/11/6 下午9:39 Media Advocacy Assignment https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1505977/assignments/8283042 4/8 (https://www.doh.wa.gov/Newsroom/Articles/ID/2857/Heat-related-deaths-in-Washington-state-climb- after-historic-heat-wave) state while roads buckled and public transit service halted (https://news.trimet.org/2021/06/trimet-immediately-suspends-all-max-service-until-tuesday-june-29- due-to-record-setting-temperatures/) due to scorching heat. Meanwhile, the West struggles through a severe and prolonged “megadrought” (https://cpo.noaa.gov/News/News-Article/ArtMID/6226/ArticleID/1917/Megadrought-in-southwestern- North-America-and-implications-for-the-Colorado-River) that especially threatens farmers (https://www.drought.gov/sectors/agriculture) . Millions of people brace for perhaps the worst wildfire season (https://www.predictiveservices.nifc.gov/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf) in living memory and toxic smoke chokes the air (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148610/smoke- across-north-america) hundreds of miles downwind, making it hard to breathe. Residents of the Upper Midwest are coping with intense flooding