This first weeks readings were very interesting and at the same time alarming. They made me realize that we as a society need to wake up. A big thing that I took away from this weeks reading was the terrible mindset of "I can't make a difference". Yes if a person was to only change their own personal habits, the overall change in the global climate problems regarding climate change seen would be extremely minimal. But I believe that we each must be held accountable for our own personal actions and should take pride in ourselves to do all that we can do to limit our own personal emissions and overall wastes that we continually all release into our environment on a daily basis. If the mindset of everyone goes from having the mindset that they cannot make a change, to if I do my part, and I trust that other people will do their part to limit their own personal emissions; then a change may be seen. I do however realize that this is unlikely to happen. Because of this I believe that there should be more strict regulations put into place that holds individuals accountable their own emissions. I believe that with strict regulations regarding emissions would eliminate the mindset of " why should I reduce my emissions if I get to see my friends continue their own more wasteful lifestyles that are more convenient while I am continually inconvenienced". I believe that we as a society need to realize that our harmful and wasteful lifestyles have gone on long enough and we need to make great changes before it is too late. This has been said time and time again yet we continually only say "we need to make changes" yet this thoughts and plan are never put into action in reality. It sounds good and looks good on paper but we need to take these great of ideas of change that we have been talking about and put them into action in order to essentially save the world as we know it that we live in.