The Earth Day of 2009 is coming on April 22. There are “footprint” notes about environment protecting and energy saving slogans on the floor in our campus everywhere. We want to know how people in Hong Kong understand Earth Day. So we choose one aspect-the energy. Do they have basic knowledge about energy? We interviewed people along the Somerset Way to the station.
Do you know any of the Non-renewable energy?
A middle age man passing through Somerset Road: Non-renewable resources? Air!
Two female college students from mainland on Kent Road: Of course we know! It includes coal, oil, and natural gas.
A road worker resting at the side of Kent Road: I don’t understand. Don’t ask me. I am not educated.
A driver of a kinder garden in Kowloon Tong: body? Gas? Money? There should be many, but I can’t think of it at this moment.
Ms. Lan, a MA student of mathematics: Wood is non-renewable! And I think it also include coal, oil and nature gas?
A housewife waiting outside a kinder garden: my scientific knowledge is quite bad, if you ask me how much my son eats, I can tell you. By the way, you should tell me the answer before you leave.
A female foreigner beside the Kowloon Tong MTR Station: I think it include coal, oil. But as for oil, nobody knows how much they are there, so I don’t know for sure it is non-renewable. May be solar-energy, oh, no, that’s renewable. Because, you know, sun is there.
A Cable reporter in his car on the Waterloo Road near Hong Kong Baptist University: it’s hard for me to think it out…wood? Carbon? What about bull shit?
An elder people waiting outside a kinder garden in Kowloon Tong: I haven’t heard of this name before. I don’t know how to say….
