Paper 3 IB 6 Joana Sipe

                Ever since we had class on Friday I have been thinking about what topic I wanted to write a creative blog/ video upon. However, I have so many different ideas it has been taking me a while to pick a really good one, since a lot of the ideas I have are too broad. I even talked about it with my family and looked up some ideas online but I still feel like a lot of them have been done really well and I cannot expand and make them better (if that makes any sense).  So, imagine my excitement when I found out that today’s invention blog was not a topic proposal exactly, but investigating what topic to research upon and what audience to write to in the first area! (WOOHOO! *jump in the air*) Hopefully, I will get some feedback and ideas from you all as well in order to pinpoint exactly what I should do (since I trust you have good tastes).

1.       Here are a few current events topics I brainstormed about:

 

Artic Drilling (ANWR) - This relates to the first research topic on oil dependence and how oil supply is running out and destroying the environment called Earth. It is important to save this pristine environment and to decrease oil dependence.

 

*Water quality and conservation in Arizona (especially in Maricopa County) – Through Arizona is a desert; it uses more water than those in rainy cities such as Washington. This is a grand issue because the Colorado River is shared between 5 states for water and it is decreasing dramatically. * This is currently my most specific topic because it is local. It will be my go-to topic if the next is not specific enough or fits in with the environmental issu. This goes hand in hand with an environmental dispute that is shaping not only locally but around the US as well.

 

**Animal endangerment and extinction due to global warming – I thought this would be the most fun of a topic to write about; however I might have to make it more local to make it more specific. I wanted to write about perhaps Polar Bears in the artic or Orangutans in the Rain Forests. That would be SO EXCITING (and cute) to write about!!! This would fit in with the first research essay on how oil dependence is tarnishing the environment and into the Lorax paper that a change must be made and CAN be made with little hands and a little help from everyone. **LOVE this topic but I don’t know if it is too broad and if it fits in with my overall topic well enough. This is what I will write the rest of the audience proposal and stakeholders about.

 

2.       List of Stakeholders:

Stakeholders in my two favorite topic choices are mainly the same actually. People, The Environment, Animals, Businesses, and The Government.

 

People… Have the choice and means to make a change in the world, although they are not completely aware of it. They can affect actions that occur halfway around the world simply with a purchase of a good for example.

The Environment…Cannot speak for itself, it needs a mediator, A modern-Lorax to speak for the trees and conservation of the beauty it holds. They prove to be the dependent variable to affect the survival of animals in the wild.

The Businesses…Have the responsibility to keep the economy intact but also protect the consumer and its resources used. They need to realize that progression can be synonymous with protection.

The Government… Job is to Protect the people, therefore rather than Protect their pockets with the large CEO’s and protect the land they are given. Therefore the animals should be protected as well IF the people make a voice to change it.

 

3.       Cluster “Tree” Map:

 

 

 

The Tree is the main issue at hand environmentally, “Species Endangerment and Extinction” The Surrounding “Air” issues that contribute to the tree are the Human population boom (which is now 7 billion) inhabiting  animal’s previous homes, Politics either protecting businesses or the tax “budget”, blaming someone “else” for the issue or hoping someone else will make a change and being misinformed, global warming, the permanent industrial revolution which is not being modernized utilizing old technology, hedonistic society of materials and the economy idolization and, water and air pollution.  However, the ROOT of the problem is environment degradation as a whole which in TURN the main culprit is none other than FOSSIL FUELS (dun dun dunnn).

 

4.       Write to the Audience:

Currently, Endangerment and Extinction has increased dramatically in the world. Polar bears’ homes are melting; the orangutans’ rainforest habitat is exponentially smaller than it used to be. Many attain this to global warming and fossil fuels.  The choice of whether such occurrences happen are not solely based upon the government or businesses, such a change can happen from one individual. Take the instance of The Cove and the man who filmed dolphins getting caught in nets, there is now dolphin SAFE tuna and the word has spread to millions of people through the documentary. A large change can take place just by monitoring what you purchase at the groceries and whether they are safe to the environment, and many other little changes to daily life that are simple to do and make a monumental change. I want to post this article in the "oatmeal" blog foramt to enviornmentalblog.org hopefully, therefore most of the audience will be enviornmentalists. I might also turn it in through the oatmeal also so it acquires a larger audience than simply enviornmentalists to make a larger impact on society.

*My essay will have numbers and backup but this is a preview above*