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This is a broad topic to talk about. Start from myself: honestly, I think it is too unrealistic to talk about how can we change the world, but ironically, I would love to do something to make a difference. It is impractical because there are too many people on this world. They can choose either to "care" or to "ignore". It is very hard to get everyone start doing something to change the world.
I do not know what I can do to change the world. Even if I do know how, I don't dare to take actions. Therefore I think the answer to "how" do I change the world is to have "passion". If I am ambivalent toward both sides of the issue, I would not have any preference on either sides. Oppositely, if I have strong passion toward certain issue, I would argue for the side I stand on. Such passion is the key to influence the world. You've got to use your passion to influence other people around you and get them stand on your side to do the same thing with you. Take the animal testing debate as an example, this debate really changed my point of view about animal testing. Before, I simply think it is immoral to kill the animals for testing; now, I agree that animal testing is necessary. It is even more immoral if we leave millions of people to suffer from AIDS, cancer, etc diseases. I was glad when the sixteen years old student marched onto the street with many other pro-animal testing people. It is something those people are passionate about such passion promoted action.
Some thoughts I have is that we as a class can come up with plans such as lights-off day per week, cleaning up the environment (which is what we are planning now in GEI), etc, and present our ideas to the Hsinchu government. It will be more effective if we present our ideas to the government.
