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Hello! My name is Brendan Jeffery. I'm an environmental student at Concordia University in Montreal, and I've been an environmentalist since I was 8. I've never "blogged" before, but I've been learning so much that I wanted to try and spread some of the information that I've been accumulating.
The Global Environmental Crisis has been ongoing for the past half-century. It's time to take action. But people seem to be preoccupied with their lives, without making the connections between the mall and the supermarket and Walmart and environmental damage. If you're in debt, ask why you're in debt; how does this system work? Why are so many people losing their jobs right now, and not greedy businessmen who created the situation to pocket even more of the world's money? Why can we afford so much food to be brought here, imported, and packed into supermarkets? How much are corporations really doing to help the environment? Why do we need the environment, and need to save it? What is our connection with the Earth?
The internet is an incredible thing. It has allowed more possibilities and awareness and availability of information than ever before. But we must also, as individuals, work, and make an effort to be informed, and then take action. One's own life is a start.
This will be a running log of issues and the connections between the plight of the natural environment, our own culture, individual choices and actions, and the global economic machine. And what we can do about it.