The current generation of humans is truly living in a unique time period, we are fortunate enough to still enjoy an abundance of resources but have enough awareness to realize a looming danger. Let's skip forward 200 years, the world's population exceeds 12 billion, fossil fuels are becoming scarcer by the day, water that we take for granted is a valuable and conflict inducing resource, and despite the rising need for energy and resources, ironically, the lack of energy and resource is crippling research and efforts into solving these problems. The people of the world of 2216 think back to this era, their perceived golden age of humanity, and see how it was spent in abundance, negligence and missed opportunities to make a better future. Now is the time to prevent this dark future from happening.
This is the opportune time for serious and efficient steps to be taken, we have yet to start feeling the strain of global warming or resource and energy scarcity as a result it is difficult to motivate government and companies into adopting serious sustainable development efforts.
The key to effective and real change are the people. By including and focusing on these matters in education more of the world's population will become aware of these issues and generate pressure for the large entities to move. Change has always comes from the bottom to the top, it begins with the people, and there is no better venue than education to move towards realistic and long lasting solutions, not just flashy slogans and reactionary band-aid action.
However, efforts to conserve resources and stop global warming cannot be lead by a single entity or government, the UN has to encourage, and most likely lead, a world wide initiative. That initiative might seem like a near-impossible task, but if we do not address it while we have the resources, we will have to battle it eventually but without the resources.
This is the opportune time for serious and efficient steps to be taken, we have yet to start feeling the strain of global warming or resource and energy scarcity as a result it is difficult to motivate government and companies into adopting serious sustainable development efforts.
The key to effective and real change are the people. By including and focusing on these matters in education more of the world's population will become aware of these issues and generate pressure for the large entities to move. Change has always comes from the bottom to the top, it begins with the people, and there is no better venue than education to move towards realistic and long lasting solutions, not just flashy slogans and reactionary band-aid action.
However, efforts to conserve resources and stop global warming cannot be lead by a single entity or government, the UN has to encourage, and most likely lead, a world wide initiative. That initiative might seem like a near-impossible task, but if we do not address it while we have the resources, we will have to battle it eventually but without the resources.
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