23 April 2020
No one is too small to make a difference
Yesterday was 50th earth day.
I did know that and I wanted to publish my article yesterday, but I couldn't do that.
This article is my first book review on this blog. (To tell the truth I posted several book reviews in my Japanese blog...)
This book is written by famous teenager environment activist Greta Thunberg.
This is the story of collection of her speeches which she did in 2018-2019 around the world.
Since she and world leader’s couldn’t reduce CO2 emissions, but COVID-19 reduced them significantly. That what a irony...
Some sentences which I highlighted.
I have a Asperger’s syndrome, and to me, amidst everything is black or white.I'm not expert on Asperger, but is it true? Is her aggressive speech related to this syndrome?
When I told my parents about my plans, they weren’t very fond of it. They did not support the idea of school striking and they said that if I were to do this I would have to do it completely by myself and with no support from themIf my daughter would told me like this, I will desperately to stop her to do this. And I believe most of parents would do so. But I think they are supporting you.
I want everything to be absolutely correct so that I dong spread incorrect facts, or things can be misunderstood.
I checked some of sources, and I think this is true. This might help understand why she refuse to get funded by other environmental activist groups.
I want you to act as if your house was on fire.
She wants us to be panic at climate change. She told this phrase quite a lot of time in early speeches. Not mention in later speeches I though.
I think, she felt people are acting too slow and she want us to act more quickly like we are in such condition.
But you must not spend all of your time dreaming, or see this as some political fight to win.
This is great phrase because the speech held in United States Congress and she used famous Martin Luther King Jr.’s phrase “I have a dream...” that reminds me this is new movements.
And also this is right after the story of J.F.K's "choose to go to the moon" speech.
We are the change and change is coming.
This is the title of her speech in Montreal. She started her speech with French this time.
Anyway, our small change might lead to bigger change.
I also doing small changes these days. I try not to buy PET bottles, and try to use my own bottle to bring water or coffee or tea. I also try to choose environment friendly products (such as FSC labeled paper). We are in tough time, but it might change our world significantly not only for environment. Hope you are doing fine.
Thanks,
14 January 2020
2020 New Year Resolutions
Hi nice to see you again!
It’s 2020!
Since I couldn’t update my blog last year, I hope I can update my blog more in this year.
It’s already fortnight passed since new year begins, but I believe it’s ok to showing off my new year's resolutions.
But before that I will review my last year's resolutions and quick reviews.
2019's new year resolutions and its review
I set 5 resolutions last year, and I achieved 3 of them. But 3 of 5 is not suitable for showing in this blog, then I chose 2 of them. In this 2 resolutions, I achieved 1 of them.
- Read 5 English written books
I set this resolution for 2019 because I need time to read English written books, and I wanted to read them more quickly. But unfortunately, I could read only 2 books in 2019. Which is Murder on the Orient Express and Clash of Civilizations. I believe my read time got a little faster.
- Run more
Yes, I could run more than 2018 but it was only 20km. So this year I will run 100km more than 2019. Actually, I could run only 75 km last year.
2020 New Year Resolutions
This year I put 17 resolutions (!?). This year my resolutions are more specific (last year's one are not so specified...). Here's some of my new year's resolutions.
- Read 6 English written books
Yes, it's similar to last year's one, but I put more challenging 6 English written books. I need to read 1 book in every 2 months, but I believe I can do it.
- Run more than 200km
Yes, it's similar to last year's one too. I put them in more specified. I will run more than 200 km in this year! (But it will start in April, because I cannot run on icy snow road...)
Check my result on Strava!
- Reduce the use of PET bottles
Trying to be more eco-friendly. I also donated some money for MyMizu(https://www.mymizu.co/home-en) Japanese start up which help people to find water refill station nearby.
I don't know how many PET bottles I bought in a year, but I believe I bought quite a lot PET bottles. And I'm going to reduce the use of PET bottles. Now I'm counting the number of PET bottles I used since 1st January.
- HelloChinese
I wanted to learn Chinese, but I couldn't continue them. This year I put this onto my new year's resolution.
Currently I'm learning Chinese with iPhone app which called HelloChinese(https://apps.apple.com/app/id1001507516), and I've just achieved 7th day.
I will update these resolutions!
Thanks,
Masaya
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