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Group #4- Helen M./Mario G./Keren D./ Meaghan H.

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Group #4- Helen M./Mario G./Keren D./ Meaghan H.

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One of the main concerns in trying to improve climate change is the distraction of misinformation of climate change to the people. The people that misinform the public are mostly industries that can lose money or get effected by the true information of climate change like oil industries, tobacco industries, etc.... Their are many ways of stopping this wrong information given to the public by giving people more correct information thru media, making groups were people join and have the same opinion and making organization that can work on researching more on how the climate change is happening to have a stronger argument and better interaction. In order to have media like news media to inform the public you need a really strong argument in order for them to cover them. Without strong information most of these news media will not have any importance in giving information that you want them to give to the public. Small groups can also help the public change and get informed by climate change because with one group more groups can be formed because the information is spread and more people in different places can start making groups as well, which can help a lot, since it can spread in different locations. Small groups may be the easiest way to inform the public because it can be made thru small communities and it can spread. Bad information to the public about climate change is one of the main problems that needs to be fixed mostly thru informing the public and having more agree with you.

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Today’s society is greatly impacted by misinformation by many organizations and companies. These organizations and companies want to deny the issue of climate change. They are aware that if people believe that global warming is happening due to the burning of fossil fuels, they will lose money. Many industries like the oil industries will do anything to stop climate action at any cost. This is the primary goal of the Koch brothers, one of the richest and powerful people in the global oil industry. One thing that people can do to reduce “information pollution” is to inform the public and prevent them from believing that global warming is not happening or even worse, prevent them from believing that climate change is not caused by the burning of fossil fuels. If people start believing this and are aware of this, then many can push a change in the United States government and promote laws and legislation's that can benefit planet Earth. One problem within our society is that big corporate companies only worry about one thing and one thing only, money. Without it there would be nothing to feed the greed and corruption that these organizations were based on when they were first starting to become highly profitable. They knew when they were first having their product or service go public the kind of damage and harm it would do, not only to the people of our great society but our environment we call home. Then, instead of just admitting to the truth and damage they caused, they decided to use their power and connections to cover up the lies they were first feeding us and just wanted to delay the truth from coming out because everyday that the truth was delayed, they would get more and more money from what their company was providing to make such high profit. Our society is often unable to recognize a company doing their part in bettering the economy, and simultaneously destroying our environment. This blindness is caused by a number of things, but mostly it’s caused by no exposure to the truth. One way we as citizens can understand what companies intentions are, is understanding which groups are endorsed by the wealthy oil industries and the most powerful industries. Most of these industries won’t publicly share how they endorse anti climate change groups with their wealth, leading the public to think they are something other than what they are. Companies are being protected by these groups, and therefore paying for the security of their destruction. We must make a conscious effort to change our habitual ways to increase sustainability to our world.

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Group 7-Shannon, Victoria, Christian, Justus

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Group 7-Shannon, Victoria, Christian, Justus

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Information pollution is a very problematic issue since people are being misinformed about very important matters that affect everyone. It is one of the worst ways to get your audience to side with you and your opinion. The lobbying industries use of think tanks is one way to disinform the concerning science of climate change. These fossil fuel and oil corporations thrive off of the misinformed public. This way they are able to push forth their ideas and make their profits. Our own involvement in these issues and educating ourselves is a way to progress towards getting involved in issues that affect the wellbeing of us and the environment. A method that could lead to any possible solution of information pollution could be a voting system or consensus that is pushed towards the important decisions that must be made about the environment. This voting system can also be used to view or disband think tanks or any organized group that are misleading the public on the concept of climate change and the process will be as a community. Another would be trying to develop a way to reduce the influence of corporate money on our political system. Corporations have made their way into politics. They have been buying out officials that will pushing forth laws/bills that will only benefit their business. Our involvement is the only way to find any sort of solution to information pollution and the unity of the people will be able to overcome any obstacle.

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Nghia, Stephanie, Amy, Bryn, Kassandra
Information pollution is something that is blinding citizens of the truth behind our world slowly dying because of climate change. The huge corporations that are in charge of doing this are wasting money on hiring people to create lies but these people are not people we should be trusting. A way that we can get people open their eyes is to get a corporation to inform them about the reality of things and how they have been deceived this entire time. This way people will be be informed and will be able to use the decision making methods of voting correctly by knowing all the facts behind the problem. Using this method helps everyone have a voice without one person speaking for the majority of people.
Information pollution- a danger to society, a danger to our youth, a dangerous danger. How can we know
what we are being told is true? With information pollution we will never know for sure.  Big corporations distort the truth of what they are saying to protect their agendas, and lead us into the dark when it comes to what needs to be fixed in our world.  We need to demand the truth from our media company's and begin to focus on truthful events that need to be addressed. We must put an end to information pollution today!
One effective way to educate the public about information pollution is to reach the youth. We can effectively do this by creating a group to help educate the youth to show them that they can make a difference in the future, because the conversation about information pollution has gone on for quite some time. We can assume the children of the future will also be involve in the conversation but if we educated them first they can also become aware of the issues and choose not to feed into the deterioration of the planet.
Being able to education people and providing proper information for them is the most crucial step in being able to slowly stop information pollution. But sometimes even then education might not always be a solution to information pollution because some will believe that the education is biased and will be targeted as unfit to educate some people.

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Melina Ramirez, Cynthia Nava, Athena Garcia, Ivan Lopez

As a group we agree that in today's time the majority of the public will be influenced by anything that is presented to be credible. These credible sources are not necessarily false rather have a negative impacts on the environment as a whole by misinforming the public. Understanding what influences climate change is crucial to understanding how information pollution really works. In realizing how things really are then we can truly understand how to formulate proper solutions. Because the presence of information pollution is so high then the evident realization that most major decisions are binary. Having that said in regards to possible solution to this situation are the aspects of  decision making styles such as Rational, Intuitive, Dependent, Avoidant, and Spontaneous can provide a more convincing conclusion. Imposing a group consensus can ensure the most prosperous decision based on a collaborative effort to achieve a common goal. Because we are constantly being lied to by mainstream media the lack of realization in regards to corporate businesses influence on public policies. Understanding the relationship between the corporations influence on political decisions, which ultimately impact the increasing issue of climate change.

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Group 6- Sarah Wortman, Lisette Torres, Karen Rodriguez, Sebastian Sosa

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Group 6- Sarah Wortman, Lisette Torres, Karen Rodriguez, Sebastian Sosa

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Our group has come to some conclusions about some solutions to the multiple challenges posed to the human species by these disinformation practices or campaigns. One is how we could vote on what we want and so we could let people hear our voices and  express our feelings and our own thoughts on situations, but before voting we should do our own research and not believe what we see online or the TV. We should not believe every word that we here from multiple campaigns. By doing our own research we open up to real facts that these campaigns are actually about. The more aware we open up to be the more we will realize who are the ones that pose a serious threat to our future. By having the ability to vote we could decide by majority vote so big corporations can be removed from power, and also remove those organizations that are creating the polluted information and we would make the decisions as a community. The spread of information through computers or other sources of technology, such as e-mails, text messages, and social media since many people have and are in it for several hours a day. With the power of social media we are able to get people to be more aware of the great harm campaigns and companies are doing to our environment. Getting people alert of what is happening really helps bring their attention and support our ideas to help us stop harmful practices.

What society needs to learn to do is how to teach future generations to become open minded. Something that has been done for the longest in this society are adults forcing opinions onto their children, and if they are not forcing intentionally, then it is the things that they do that the children are witnessing which could be potentially dangerous. The reason being because then children will think it is okay to do something that could be harmful to society. If they are taught young to be open minded, then they can learn as they grow up to see a situation from both sides of the story and decide to do what they think is right. This can apply to environmental issues because there are many people in the U.S who think certain topics are not issues because of their personal beliefs. If individuals were more open minded they can eliminate a bias and do research to decide what is the right thing to do.

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Group #4 -- Bridget Licari, Ian Eynck ,Tanner Sevcik, Arturo Cerda

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Group #4 -- Bridget Licari, Ian Eynck ,Tanner Sevcik, Arturo Cerda

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Information Pollution is a terrible side effect to the time we live in. Today there is so much information available to everyone that it is almost confusing. With so much information around us from vast sources like the internet and also biased tv media sources it no wonder that many people out there are misinformed. This is how those corporations thrive. They thrive off of confusion. They thrive off of misinformation. They thrive off those who don't know whats going on. They know that in order for the people to be powerful that they must unite. The people must find unity and come to an understanding of what condition our environment is in. We are only strong once we unite and the corporations are secretly terrified of this happening. The idea of losing profit and power and control is a nightmare to these people. So the corporations have established a stronghold in our government. Even if they don't directly work "for" a corporation many politicians nowadays are paid off by corporations to obtain and objective. My group believes that something must be done not only to prevent corporations from influencing politicians but also to remove those in power who work for these corporations. Unfortunately in modern times there are almost no politicians that are not being financially backed by a corporation and therefore have a secret agenda. Our group believes that the first step is to educate ourselves about our government and the current situation and also spread the word to those who don't understand. Once we have power in numbers than we take it to the government and demand change and oust those backed by corporations with secret agendas that destroy our environment and future. Below we have attached some good links that explain a little bit about how our government is controlled by corporations. We have also attached a link to a music video that we thought was appropriate for this topic.

Music Video--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV4oYkIeGJc

https://www.sott.net/article/298989-American-politicians-are-owned-by-a-handful-of-oligarchs

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Group 2 Joshua, Avery, Jake, Delia, Kyara

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Group 2 Joshua, Avery, Jake, Delia, Kyara

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The human race faces many issues regarding misinformation due to the information pollution of mainstream media. There are many possible ways to find solutions to resolve these issues.  Effective communication seems to be the most beneficial form of problem solving.  As a society, we must analyze the problem, debate all possible pros and cons, and develop options in order to begin resolving the issues that we face.  It would be a great idea to create multiple solutions, then choose the most productive solution out of the available options.  In order to do so, we must ask questions to decide where the problems may take us.  If everyone inputs their own ideas into the plan, then that makes finding an agreeable solution much easier.  Although that sounds simple, it is much easier said than done to find a solution that a whole society can agree upon.  Everyone involved must be open minded and listen carefully to the input of other members and take all information into serious consideration.  It is important to welcome differences in opinion in order to gain a better perspective.  In order to get as many people involved as possible, a community outreach would be a positive way to organize a group to find these solutions.

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For this padlet I would like each group to take a look at their individual contributions to Discussion Forum 4, synthesize/summarize these and extend if you wish.