YouTube to the Environmental Rescue

The Scientist Magazine along with the University of Singapore are sending out a call to the global community of scientists for videos documenting environmental damage. Most people are aware of degradation and abuse to the environment, but little has been done by governments to create and enforce real change.

In an attempt to bring this issue to the awareness of world leaders, editors at The Scientist along with scientists from the National University of Singapore and the social video website YouTube, are joining forces to establish a “crowdsourcing experiment”. YouTube is dedicating an environmental damage channel where short videos can be posted documenting environmental abuse within a local region.

Their intention is that actual videos created throughout the world will have a strong, visual impact and move governments to make changes. By building a collection of videos, the project creators hope to provide a compelling snapshot of our world and the environmental effect caused by the refusal to take action.

Videos posted to YouTube’s Save the Planet channel can range in topic from the effects of pollution, loss of habitat, environmentally unfriendly activities or damaging behavior towards a species.

Richard Gallagher, editor of The Scientist explains, "The visual image has always been a catalyst for awareness. The problem with global environmental damage is the effects are often far away from the source, making it easy to avoid the problem. The more videos posted, the more the public can learn about the problems at hand, and the more that governments will find it difficult to ignore the need to act any longer."

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