Blowing Up Your World
by Jean Harding
The Blowing up your World activity illustrates that an individual’s everyday decisions and behavior affect the environment. It can be used or adapted as a quick introduction to a variety of environmental topics, or as an opener for discussions of personal responsibility for protecting the planet’s resources. It also can be used to demonstrate the concept of carrying capacity and our potential to exceed the Earth’s limits.
This activity can be very moving — I have had students cry. Therefore, it is important during the activity that you release air from the balloon for good environmental behavior and, at the end, explain that the balloon is only a model. It is highly unlikely that our collective behavior could blow up the world.
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