I'm ashamed to say this, but up until college I've been the least green person I know. Throughout high school I drove my Toyota Pickup to the grocery store(it was half a mile away), I treated the sinks in my house like fountains, and left the television on for hours on end. The finite supply of energy and melting ice caps meant nothing to me. I don't exactly know when, but sometime this summer I decided I wanted to be more like
this and less like
this. As I slowly try to put my carbon-induced lifestyle to rest, I find myself becoming more fascinated by the environment and, more specifically, how I can do my part in fighting the inevitable concerns of global warming and the world's diminishing energy supply. Through my inquiries, I've realized how the government holds such a significant role in these crises and I've inadvertently become fascinated by government policy.
I chose to be in this group because I hope to get a better understanding of government and it's relationship with the environment. While the government has a relatively large scope over our lives, the environment has the potential to have a large scope over the government (as well as our lives). Through environmental policy, issues such as employment and health care can also be addressed. In this blog I want to observe how politician's and media address global warming and come to some conclusion as to how important the environment is on Capitol Hill as well as in the rest of the country.
-Michael Silvestre
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