A Life Changing Desicions

Ako ay hindi bulag sa katotohanan, nakikita ko ang inang kalikasan na unti unting bumabagsak dahil sa mga malulupit na tao na sumisira sa kanya. kitang-kita ko sa aking mga mata ang mga bagay na sumisira dito, sa aming komunidad pa lamang ay masasabi ko na sira na si inang kalikasan. Nakapaglakbay na ako sa iba't ibang dako ng ating bansa mapahimpapawid man, mapadagat at mapalupa man. kita ng aking mata ang polusyon sa himpapawid at ang nakakadiring mga kalat sa karagatan at and matitinding usok, alikabok at kalat sa lupa.

Pero ang pinakamaksakit sa lahat ay, ako na isa sa mga tanging mulat sa katotohanan ay ako rin ang isa sa mga sumisira dito, inaamin ko sa aking sarili na sa mga maliliit na nagagawa ko ay nakakadagdag ako sa pagsira ng ating magandang kalikasan. katulad na lamang sa eskwelahan, ako ay nagtatapon ng mga basura kung saan saan ka kadahilanang tinatamad ako na pumunta pa sa basurahan. katulad ito ng mga balat ng kendi, styro ng pagkain at iba pa. 

Ngunit matapos ako makapanuod ng mga bagay tungkol sa ating kalikasan at mga artikulo tungkol dito ay, ako ay napaisip na napagdesisyonan ko na baguhin ang aking sarili, dahil alam naman natin na hindi nman sa iba magsisimula ang pagbabago para sa ating kalikasan, kung hindi sa ating SARILI. tayo ang kailangan magsimula ng pagbabag para sa kalikasan, dahil aanhin pa natin ang paghihikayat sa ibang tao na magbago kung ang sarili natin ay hindi natin mahikayat na magbago. tandaan natin ang orasan ang tumatakbo na at kailangan na nating magmadali dahil kung hindi tuluyan nang masisira ang ating kalikasan kasama na ang ating kinabukasan.

TRANSFORMING CULTURES

After reading the STATE OF THE WORLD 2010: Transforming Cultures by the World Watch Institute, I realize that our economy should be about sustainability and restoration of our fragile planet, not greed and never-ending growth. When it comes down to it, we can buy what’s no longer available: clean water and air, healthy soil, a vibrant local community, a safe place to raise a family.

Pope Benedict's message has the same perspectice as what in the  State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability says. Without an intentional cultural shift , one that values sustainability not consumerism , no pledges from government or advances in technology will be enough to prevent the preventable calamity of climate change and ecological collapse, destined to forever change how we live on this planet. We must rediscover a story of living and working, quite different from the present consumption and material wealth-driven one that often defines meaning, satisfaction and acceptance for so many of us, with dire consequences for ecological systems and the billions of people who have been called the “have-nots” in the so-called developing world.

State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability is an insightful and powerful exploration of our culture, calmly calling for a peaceful cultural revolution and offering 60 distinct voices for change from today’s leading sustainability visionaries. In six succinct chapters; education, business, the media, government, traditions and social movements. And the role each must play in redefining the story of sustainability.

inspiredeconomist.com/2010/01/27/book-review-state-of-the-world-2010/

State of the World 2010 goes to say that while human population grows bigger the consumption grows three times more. in the book it was quoted that “Consumption has grown dramatically over the past five decades, up 28 percent from the $23.9 trillion spent in 1996 and up sixfold from the $4.9 trillion spend in 1960,” writes Erik Assadourian, a Senior Researcher at Worldwatch Institute and Project Director of State of the World 2010. “Some of this increase comes from the growth in population, but human numbers only grew by a factor of 2.2 between 1960 and 2006…People in the United States alone spent $9.7 trillion on consumption [in 2006], accounting for 32 percent of global expenditures with only 5 percent of global population.” 

all I can say is that these consumerism should be regulated and we should stop consuming more electric waste as possible like the gadgets that we are buying nowadays because in time, these gadget are the one who will destroy us, who will destroy this planet and time will come that we could not be able to have a cleaner and greener environment just like as we have when these are not yet invented. so start RECYCLING! REUSING! AND REDUCING!