Saturday, July 22, 2006

WORLD OF OUR OWN

The very big problem with regards to the world trying to come together and solve the global environmental issues is the breakdown in communication. So what attributes to a breakdown in communication?

Well, it is simply distrust and self-interest.

When the countries come together and discuss on what to do about the environmental problems, everyone seems to be focusing on something that affects them the most. Well, it is undeniably for self-interest. Afterall, who really cares about the world when it is their nation's survival at hand.

Indeed, there are people around who really cares about the earth but when we really sit down and start thinking of ways to solve the problems, we will definitely start finding ways that do not shortchange us in the process. It may sound really selfish, but we are only humans afterall.

However, there are international organisations set up to counter this 'human' problem. For example, the UN bodies in the environmental field has been established and their role is to start finding ways to solve environmental problems with impartiality.

Armed with policies formulated cross-nationally and campaigns organised internationally, the fight to solve global environmental threats has just entered a whole new dimension.

What is the outcome depends directly on us.

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