Hey I'm like Angelina Jolie!

Ever wonder why people buy those expensive clothes that celebrities buy? You know the prada bag that "Paris Hilton" wore last sunday. It is because when you look like them you, in a way, feel like them, or at least you think you do. This is why environmental activists want celebrities to become their "icon."

When famous people care for the environment their fans start caring for it too. The majority of people do not listen to what their politician says instead they are too busy listing to their favorite musicans song or watching them on t.v, that is why instead of trying to address the public the poloticans mostly address the people in the media because they know that to get to you they need to get to the media first. Celebrities are like the opinion leader, once they state their opinion to the media their fans will react either in a positive or negative way. They can do something big like Pierce Brosnan who mainly works with protecting marine mamals and wetlands to Kt Tunstall who ran her tour bus with biodisesel fuel, either way their fans will see their act of helping the envrionment and hopfully it will influence them to do the same.

I find this to be a great tatic to making the public go green. Of course these celebs are being green for their own personal reasons as well but they also know how influental they are to their "follower's." But do we really need someone to tell us to be environmentaly freindly? Are we that "brain washed" to only listen to what they say that we can not act alone? I remember how that was for fashion, how teenagers would only wear what the celebrities would where, is that how we are now about being green? I hope not because then we can never advance without a famous person doing it first.

"Going GREEN?"

My question is does "going GREEN" really make an impact on the environmental problems? Does one person really make a difference? Why are some things we do better than others?

To be honest I think all we're doing is changing from one earth killing method to another. Either way we're slowly killing everything around us so we can live the luxurious lives we've become accustomed to. Some examples are things such as using as little paper as possible. That seems like an awesome idea right? Save some trees and the world and rainforests will be saved. Well if we don’t use paper then what will we use? Electronic? Don’t electronics use electricity? But where does the electricity come from? Is it collected through solar power or wind power? Don’t both of those options require metal, buildings to collect and store the energy plus additional maintenance that requires more natural materials?

These are all question that people should ask but never do. It seems like people just see the positive side effects instead of the negative. The scientists just see that not using paper and other woods will keep the rainforest from depleting which is true and awesome but they still aren’t very good solutions. There must be better ones out there that just haven’t been tried before.

I believe there is so much more that can be done and just isn’t. Lets so back to the primitive styles of living and see how they’re sustainable. Maybe that’s the key to prolonging the earth and all that it has to offer. Another could be to help people recycle by allowing them to recycle for free and really educating people about the “going GREEN”. To many people just can’t afford it.

http://www.rnp.org/GreenPower/sources.html