Blog #1

I think this course will further my experience with working in groups and will be a great opportunity to get involved in the USC community. I’m a marine science major and care greatly about the environment, specifically bettering it. I expect this course to give me more experience towards environmental activism and taking charge towards promoting a healthy environment. I hope my actions during my green action projects and community building will inspire others that don’t care as much about the environment to switch directions. Green politics interests me because I believe that the only way to create change is to take action. Too many people take our world and its natural resources for granted. Not enough people give back to the environment because they are too busy exploiting it for all its worth. I've grown up being taught to help sustain the environment and now that I’m at an age that I am capable of making a difference, I want to. I want to explore about recycling and preventing littering, since most of that litter will end up in our oceans and harming marine environments, plants and animals. I have never heard of ecofeminism before the first day of this class so I looked it up and I have an interest in learning more about that too. I think environmental issues are similar to women’s rights issues in a sense that both require action to make a difference. I think this class will educate me on current environmental issues and help me make a difference in the world at some point in my future.