Cognitive dissonance is that awful feeling you get when something or someone goes against what you say or believe. You automatically become defensive in your belief and try to rationalize your idea, most of time without hearing the full idea of the other person. As human being this is just our natural way of reacting; when someone attacks us we defend ourselves. Applying this to our environment is something I have never thought of before but definitely will now. We are somewhat “attacking” the world we live in by polluting it with CO2 and other chemicals and in a sense the environment is defending itself by changing. Now that is pretty out there, but it is kind of true if you think about it. A more realistic idea is that people who are much more informed about our world and what is happening to the environment are trying to get our attention but too many times we just ignore them or disregard their argument. The truth is they are only trying to help us and the environment. We think that because we are not involved in agriculture and the environment a lot that these ideas do not mean much to us, but they really do. We live on this earth and that should be reason enough to care about it. Most people just need to realize that they do make a difference in our world and that we need everyone to be involved in making it a better place to live.
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