{"id":215,"date":"2011-08-31T02:22:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/?p=215"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:59:31","slug":"have-you-ever-heard-the-story-of-the-starfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/2011\/08\/have-you-ever-heard-the-story-of-the-starfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever heard the story of the starfish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Conservation always seems to cause conflict within individuals.\u00a0 It is often hard to believe that one person doing one small action can make a difference in the world \u2013especially for something as critical as climate change.\u00a0 If you have ever heard the story of the starfish, you might be a bit more optimistic when it comes to conservation\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The story begins with an old man walking along a beach.\u00a0 A young boy watches the man as he picks up a starfish off the sand and gently throws it back into the water.\u00a0 The boy watches for a while and sees the man saving starfish by starfish.\u00a0 The boy finally walks up to the old man and asks him why he is bothering to throw them back.\u00a0 The beach is covered in starfish; he will never make a difference.\u00a0 The man responds by picking up another starfish and telling the boy, \u201cIt made a difference for that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-217\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/08\/starfish-on-beach1-200x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/08\/starfish-on-beach1-200x300.gif 200w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/08\/starfish-on-beach1.gif 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This story exhibits how the little things in life may not start a movement, but it can make a difference somehow. Maniates (2001) refers to this type of action as \u201cindividualization of responsibility.\u201d\u00a0 This could be described as a calling for \u201cindividuals to understand themselves as citizens in a participatory democracy arst, working together to change broader policy and larger social institutions, and as consumers second\u201d (Maniates, 2001).\u00a0 There is an obligation for citizens to respect natural resources and upkeep the land.\u00a0 This theory blames the consumer for choosing unsustainable lifestyles and often lacks collective, public action.<\/p>\n<p>Maniates suggests that the proper course to take for environmental action would involve long-term projects encompassing communal policy throughout the public that encourages conservation and reduces the use of fossil fuels and other harmful facets from industrial products.\u00a0 This makes me wonder: why can citizens not work together to each do their part to conserve while creating a communal responsibility of sorts?\u00a0 This may be glass-half-full; but haven\u2019t you ever heard the story of the starfish?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservation always seems to cause conflict within individuals.\u00a0 It is often hard to believe that one person doing one small action can make a difference in the world \u2013especially for something as critical as climate change.\u00a0 If you have ever heard the story of the starfish, you might be a bit more optimistic when it comes to conservation\u2026<br \/>\nThe story begins with an old man walking along a beach.\u00a0 A young boy watches the man as he picks up a starfish off the sand and gently throws it back into the water.\u00a0 The boy watches for a while and sees the man saving starfish by starfish.\u00a0 The boy finally walks up to the old man and asks him why he is bothering to throw them back.\u00a0 The beach is covered in starfish; he will never make a difference.\u00a0 The man responds by picking up another starfish and telling the boy, \u201cIt &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}