How to Change the World: It’s easier to care about short-term personal problems, but they could be parts of Global Environmental Problem.

I think people don’t realize and don’t feel that climate change directly related to everybody. They don’t care about environment. But environment includes us as human beings, at the same time it is place where we live and it is stuff which we eat, at last. And in this system everything is related, like water circulation in the world. If somewhere people still pollute ocean, rain on your backyard would be polluted also. Acid rains kill trees and plants in your garden, so you get less of crop and in the end wouldn’t get it at all. Often I see that citizens know about climate problems but stay inactive, like a chrysalis, and are oblivious of fact that every single neglecting kills planet and us. “Right now its already five minutes past midnight”, as Elizabeth Kolbert said in “Field Notes from a Catastrophe”.

But it’s really hard to care about global abstract problem with a lot of scientific data as a climate change. For most of us it looks like sci-fi horror story about the end of the World in 9900, what don’t seriously related to us personally and right now. But it’s not so. The solution must be in dividing big problem into smaller parts, which trouble each person right now on the local level. More easier tries to solve smaller everyday problems, what you can’t turn blind eyes to. For example, in Ukraine citizens have to pay for clean water. Some people, who live in rural area, have their own wells. But the others have to pay about 0, 10-0, 30$ for a liter of drinkable water. Unfortunately, there are a lot of citizens, who can’t afford to buy it, because they earn only 2500-3000$ per year. And the cheep tap water is polluted too much; you can’t use it for drinking or cooking. This is issue of daily life what certainly is relevant to climate change. And nobody can avoid it, because it is question of their own health, what extremely is getting worse right now.

Also respond is more powerful, if talk is about you personal values, for example, health and safety of your family or your friends. Its a question of emotions, I think. I agree with Alice Haddad, assoc. professor of Government, Environmental Studies in Wesleyan University, what said “when artists are talking about material, they use a narrative. And they can make people feel and become emotionally connected to the material.” So, as she said next, it’s not just a number in their brain, it’s something in their heart. And art is one of the main ways to open people’s hart.

All over the world and in Ukraine also there are a lot of different festivals about healthy lifestyle and climate change. A lot of young people engaged in environmental movement through art even in small towns. More and more of them collaborate to build eco-houses and eco-farms, like farm Obyrok Art Island in Ukraine http://www.obyrok.com/. So, art is working.

And we should do environmental movement effective too.