Interactive Journalism - Tutorial 2

Peoples' living actions have an impact on the environment

Sources: Sciencing

The way people live for their humanity, such as in communities and economies is having a negative impact on nature and the services that power and sustainability onwards people.

According to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018, human activity is impacting the world’s rivers, oceans, wildlife, forests, and climate, emphasizing the rapidly closing window for the action, and the global community must collectively rethink and redefine how to value, protect and restore the environment.

There are populations such as mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians that have decreased by 60 percent on average in just over 40 years.

“The statistics are scary, but all hope is not lost”

Carter Roberts, President, and CEO of WWF-US said that these declining statistics is a reminder to people are needed to change course to balance consumption with the needs of nature and protect the only planet human lived on.

Everyone's collaboration can assist to achieve that ambitious agenda for change that will allow coexisting in a sustainable way with the wildlife depend upon.

In the past 30 years, the Earth had estimated lost about half of its shallow-water corals and 20 percent of the Amazon has disappeared in just 50 years, and without changing the behavior of the society might speed up the destruction of the planet.

Another Possible Story

Is Earth conservation possible despite economic development?

Idea: The global economy had become the main focus on the development of each country and at the same time, the environment will be invaded and destroyed by people’s activities such as pollution, burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and so on. The balance between economy and environment is a very important issue for everyone.

Interviewees:

1. Carter Roberts (President, and CEO of WWF-US

2. Inger Andersen (Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme)

3. Jill Tiefenthaler (CEO of National Geographic Society)

4. Tim Cook (CEO of APPLE)

5. Elon Musk (CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX CEO of Tesla, Inc.)

Questions:

1. Are the development of the global economy affected the environment?

2. Are those public and private companies nowadays that help to develop the global economy had affected the environment?

3. What is the reason do you think that those companies affected the environment?

4. How should the public and private companies help to improve the environment with also developing the global economy?

5. Are there currently more environmentally beneficial ways for companies to support the environment throughout development?

6. Are there any examples of more environmentally beneficial ways that will be used for those companies?

7. Except for those companies, the public took in important roles too, so that, what should the public do for the environment?