Personal Opinion
(Post 8)

Choose 4-5 of these questions. For each of them, write a 40- to 50-word response describing your personal opinions on the topic.

• What is your opinion about women in the military?
• What is your opinion about the Chilean politicians?
• What is your opinion about violence on television?
• What is your opinion about buying instead of adopting pets?
• What is your opinion about having an exotic pet at home?
• What is your opinion about legalizing marijuana and other drugs?
• What is your opinion about climate change?
• What is your opinion about cloning?
• What is your opinion about recycling?
• What is your opinion about Immigration?
• What is your opinion about the legalization of abortion in the 3 cases?

Total number of words: approx. 240

Do not forget.  Leave comments on 3 of your classmates' posts 

 


My opinion...

The consensus of the scientific opinion on climate change is that earth’s climate has warmed significantly since the late 1800’s, that human activities; primarily greenhouse emissions are the primary cause, that continuing emissions will increase the likelihood and severity of global effects and that people could manage future climate change impact through intense efforts at reducing further warming.

In my opinion, environmentally-friendly practices seem very difficult, but when you learn about them you realize that are much easy practices that help the environment immensely.

I hope and believe that most people are learning about environmentally-friendly practices throughout their families, TV advertisements, schools, and friends in general. People, today, are aware of the need to take care of our planet.

I can say that I'm somehow green in many of my daily practices such as separating my trash, using public transportation as much as I can, reusing many containers and transforming them into useful utensils in my kitchen, etc.

In my case, I have not joined any eco-friendly organizations mainly because I need to rearrange my schedule to make time to do it. However, I am planning in the future to become a volunteer at Greenpeace.  I believe this organization is one of the most important one in the world. They have been fighting for the environment for many years, for example, the forest, the climate, the oceans, etc. Also, I would like to help to develop more campaigns to protect our city, commune or just the neighborhoods.

In order to reduce carbon footprint, I have been using less spray products in my house, more public transportation, as I said before, and try to eat more raw food so I do not need to use my stove often.

In Santiago, we need more campaigns to raise a higher awareness about the necessity of having a cleaner city. We need a city where the pollution level can be lowered, for instance, by having a better public transport system.  We need many actions to have a better environment in our city.