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This day is about putting a single important issue on everyone's mind — the environment. In partnership with Eden CC we at My Opera have tried to build awareness around this issue for our bloggers.

For me, it narrows down to active or passive environmental engagement. I haven't done anything actively to reduce my carbon footprint, but I've passively encouraged others to do so. Of course — I recycle my best both at home and at work, but this is because I've been taught to do so. As a child of western society I've embraced modern capitalism and egocentrism. I know this, and it directly affects who I am and what actions I do toward the environment. Therefore, I don't think it's sufficient for me to just listen to promises and speeches; I need action. I need something to change in society in order for me to help save the environment.

I think this years Nobel Peace Prize was a step in the right direction. It was shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore. I'm not familiar with the IPCC, but I reckon most know Al Gore (especially from "An Inconvenient Truth").

I'll end this post with a quote from the Norwegian Nobel Committee:

By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.

To me, this is what Blog Action Day does and will hopefully help me think twice how to protect the world's future climate.

Which I think this post has already done.