“We are entering a new era, one of rapid and often
unpredictable climate change. In fact, the new climate norm is change.” (Brown
56) This quote by Brown is quite profound for me. It highlights how we as a society
have become so complacent in our current means of living which negatively
affect our environment, that we just look the other way when it is suggested
that we should be thinking harder about the way we live. It makes me more
interested in exploring the ways in which my major, software engineering, could
be used to have some positive effect on the environment, even if minute. As I’ve
stated in a previous journal, my major inherently has a negative effect on the
environment, so I’d like to explore in the future ways which use software in
order to model negative trends related to our relationship with the environment
which could be used as an educative tool.