Student wondering about the climachange

14 years old Noora Koittola is very worried about climate change and global warming.

- I´m afraid to loose our four seasons, she tells in the interview. Noora thinks, that it will be a very big loss for all of us and especially for our children.

- The climate change really means, that it is the event, when all the emissions will cause the change in the ozone layer, Noora tells.

She thinks, that she can easily find information about the climate change from the Internet. Also in these days in school they learn much more about the environment than we did about ten years ago.

Noora thinks that she can do very little about changing the world on her own. She thinks, that we all have to work together, if we want that our children will see the world as beautiful and amazing as we do now.

4.5.2005 Niina Koittola

Engineer student and the climate change

Engineer student has knowledge to find information about climate change, but does he have enough interest to do it and work against climate change?

21 years old Olli, an engineer student, understands the climate change as a climates up warming. In his opinion the climate change has no effect in his life nowadays, but he sees it possible that it might effect in his life in future.

Olli hasn’t been thinking about the influences of his acts to the climate change and he hasn’t done anything to restrain it. Olli hasn’t been trying to find information about the climate change, but if he would need to, he would try to find it from the Internet.

He hasn’t planned how to restrain the climate change, but he believes that he is going to more for it in the future than now. From Olli’s point of view Varsinais-Suomi is going to look a bit different in 2055 than now.

5.8.2005 Sanna Karlsson

Climate Discussion Makes You Think

26-year-old Karoliina, who is writing her doctoral dissertation, is concerned about climate change, but doesn’t think it has an affect on her life at the moment.

Karoliina is very interested about the media discussion concerning the climate change.

- A part of the news feels like stirring up panic, the point should be in the real facts. Then people might take climate change more seriously.

Karoliina thinks one can control the climate change by driving their own cars as little as possible and using as less water and energy as possible.

5.8.2005 Niina Pokela

Snow in the summer?

Teacher Tuija Rannikko says that the media offers a great deal of information about the climate change. She thinks that extreme weather conditions have increased all over the world. The influence of people has been considerable.

- Maybe there will be snow in the summer also, she laughs.

Rannikko hopes that the climate or flora and fauna would not change remarkably in Finland during the next few decades.

Environmental education is a part of teachers work. Even now, topics such as recycling and energy saving are taught in schools.

- There are a huge amount of things to learn in teachers’ education. Thus many important subjects have unfortunately to be left out. It depends partly on students own interest and capacity to study environmental issues, Tuija Rannikko explains.

3.8.2005 Elina Annala

Changes make cultivation difficult

- Old signs that farmers formerly used to decide on cropping, don’t work anymore, eco-farmer Laura Suvanto thinks about the alterations that climate change has brought.

Extreme weather conditions have increased and that affects on agriculture every where in Finland. There are long dry seasons and very long rainy seasons.

Laura Suvanto from Rymättylä has worked as a ecological farmer for two decades. She thinks that the choice that she made was based on the fact that nature and animals need protection and ecological farming fulfils this idea.

- For example the fertilizers that ordinary farmers use, consumes 40 percent of the hole amount of energy that is used in farming. So in ecological farming that amount is never used and our energy consumption is much smaller, says Laura.

12.5.2005 Anna Koivisto

Everybody is needed

- If everybody would only work together, is the main wish of a nearly 70-years-old pensioner Kirsti when facing climate change.

Kirsti does not see her own possibilities to affect on climate change to be that strong, but she still thinks that everybody has something to give for this matter.

Kirsti is my grandmother and has lived 50 years more than me. She is worried about the disappearance of the seasons even more than me, because she has experienced stronger change than I have.

- 50 years ago the winters were cold and the summers hot. But if everything will continue the same way than now, it might be that after 50 years there is only one constant rainy season, thinks Kirsti.

10.5.2005 Sanna Salokannel