Guest Speak Jean Lavigne

This week we had the privilege of having Jean Lavigne come and speak both days to our class. Jean is very well versed in the topic of climate change among many other areas in relation to our climate or environment. A great deal of what we talked about was climate change, and more specifically as to why there are certain groups of people that will firmly deny that climate change is even a thing that we should be concerned about at all. We talked about how a lot of the people do not believe there is climate change nor do they want to believe that climate change is real at all. A very large reason that Jean gave us while she was speaking to us about why there are climate change deniers is that certain groups of people believe that climate change is a hoax or a scam. She told us about how there are large groups of people that believe that climate change is a made up concept in order to generate. While addressing this she elaborated on how some people believe that climate change is made up in order to raise large sums of money that will be put into the economy in attempt to better benefit our economy overall. Another large part of the climate change deniers philosophy was a belief that climate change is being made up by the scientists in order for them to generate large sums of money for themselves in order to be able to do further research. I personally believe that there is clearly shown evidence that essentially proves that climate change is not being "made up". We as a society need to convince all of the climate change happenings and dangers in order to show them that it is real, and alert them of the great dangers that lie ahead in our future if we do not change our harmful ways we act toward the environment. If we are able to do this, I believe that this will a great step in reducing our overall consumption and climate change causing actions because we all need to be on the same page when facing this very eminent problem.