This weeks guest lecturer was Dr. Aaron Sachs. He spoke about the lack of humor in environmental issues. The way a problem is portrayed affects how people perceive the situation. Humor has been used to relieve stressful situation, and to put people at ease. While making people feel more at ease, humor can still effectively get the right information to an audience. If humor was introduced to environmental conservation maybe this would help people see it in a different way. Making a bad situation funny can sometimes help people realize the severity of the problem. It might cause people to act instead of taking a passive approach to the problem. Many times if a problem does not impact someone immediately they are not concerned with it for the time being. I think that is how many people view environmental conservation, as if it can be dealt with at a latter date. However, this problem needs immediate attention before it is too late to do anything. I think humor may help people realize just how serious the current situation is.