Greetings,
It's an exciting time as the snow continues to fall upon my dwelling here in Osnabrück, Germany. I've been having a good time recently continuing my daily school routines and whatnot.
I had the opportunity to go to a local football match a couple weekends ago. It was very exciting, and Osnabrück won! They are actually now first place in the third German football league. If they keep up the good work, they will be moved up to the second league for next season.
VFL Osnabrück Football Match
I am greatly concerned for the future of our world as today is the last day of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. I fear that this generation will look back on this day, December 18, 2009, and see it as the point when we could have done something to stop a perilous foe but didn't.
On that note, I'd like to share with you all a culture experience I have recently had.
In my European politics class, we have been discussing energy politics and specifically the politics in regard to the pending climate crisis. Unlike anything I have ever experienced in the U.S., we actually study the science of global warming and the possible implications of the threat. It's actually very interesting. Germans learning about the science of global warming in class instead of just being entranced by the latest Sarah Palin op-ed certainly explains part of the reason why Americans are relatively so stagnant on the issue of climate change. (Germany is offering a 25% cut from 1990 levels of carbon emissions, whereas the United States is offering on a 4% reduction.)
Servus,
Alex
