Reflection

Reflection

I was originally inspired by social media, and its toxic influence on adolescents. As I grew up, the people around me, including myself, began to become more consumed in social media. Social media can have positive effects but oftentimes, in order to gain popularity, much of its content has a negative influence on its audience. As excessive amounts of social media use becomes normalized, people lose focus on the major issues that encapsulates our generation, climate change. The message I intended to express was that lack of awareness will only burn down our society further; social media makes people lose sight of true problems and makes them think only about themselves, leading to devastating consequences for the environment. While researching climate change, I have learnt the impacts of greenhouse gasses on our environment; greenhouse gasses may be produced in many ways including factory emissions and forest fires. The extensive production of these gasses, such as CO2, can cause problems such as the greenhouse effect where light that is reflected off of the Earth is reflected again and comes back down to the Earth, eventually raising global temperatures. I believe that a step that our community can take to go against climate change is for everyone to educate themselves about climate change and get a true understanding of why so many people are adamant on making a change.