World environment day 2010

The Earth, a beautiful and lush green planet that is inhabited by many different species of animals and plants alike that is shared with us humans. They have been built into the ecosystem of the planet so that every single one of them balances each other out to create a peaceful existence on Earth. Humans have also been part of this balance for many millennia, and yet recently many of us have been unknowingly upsetting this coexistence that has been created.

For a few years ago we have almost completely forgotten the responsibility that we have towards the Earth. The reason for that is that many of us just do know or do not take the time to know what is going on in our environment. Even if a child is taught at school or see an advertisement on the television he or she only see as a passing phase, that it does not have anything to do with them and will simply forget about it. The child may participate in environmental activities held by the school, but unfortunately for most of them, that will be it and they would not volunteer or bother with such activities when they grow up. Only a handful of the children would grow up to continue and help to take care of the planet for future generations, but this is not enough as there are more of us who blatantly continue to damage the Earth. Like the recent incident oil spill following a ship collision off Changi on May 25. People or beach-goers can't enjoy the water at Changi beach as usual. Not only in Singapore that has such kind of incident but in America also recently has, such as the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We can look at some of the pictures here as the incident had affect the animals there. Oil Spills Are Devastating to Ecosystems and All Life.

We need to really make everybody aware that the next generation of children may not be able to enjoy the natural wonders of the Earth, like a jungle filled with the sound of animals or a meadow with the forest creatures squiring about. The first step to make it a realization is to let them see for themselves what the state of the world is in now. For example the polar ice cap is melting away and the existence of the animals there like the polar bear is threaten because of the side effect cause by us humans, called global warming. They have also only recently realize through the studies it shows that on parts of the world there have been a rise in sea level and that some places have begun to be submerged underwater. The world needs to work together to create a solution for this problem.

Maybe this video can make the views and our responsibilities towards the world much clearer:-



Or maybe this video will make us realise to start saving the earth quickly into a reality :



The World Environment Day and Earth Hour are one of the steps taken to unite the people of the world in working together for a better future. On these days everyone, young or old are encourage to try and do something to save the environment, like switching off electrical appliances for an hour or recycling. Electrical cars and cars that do not give off those harmful fumes or hybrid cars have also begun to be sold around the world. People are also motivated to recycle the trash that they throw away or reuse those that can be used again.

The ever vast developing technologies in this world are actually having dangerously threatened the wildlife lifespan. We human might conveniently have been using and depending on the technologies nearly most of our lives but we unconsciously or maybe purposely being an ignorant person to ignore the other living things that actually live with us too in this world. Example like the animal, plants etc.





In some places they have begun to use wind and solar energy to generate electricity. This is a great step in helping to conserve the environment as these two methods are considered the clean way to generate power, as they do not produce waste of fumes of any kind. A dam is considered as a good method too but unfortunately not all the country and places in the world have such landscapes available to them.

Remember the late Michael Jackson song on earth and environment awareness? He's an influential celebrity that never stops or fails to effortlessly to remind other people about the welfare of this world through his songs. Michael Jackson has put his musical talents to good use and often participates in charity recordings and gigs such as Live Aid and The Green Concert.

Michael Jackson was not the only celebrity that have tried their best to increase the public awareness on environmental issues but there are other international celebrities too that are willingly to help such as Brad Pitt, Leonardo Dicaprio and the popular model Gisele Bundchen by trying their best in going green. Our local media and celebs have also recently collaborated to increase the public awareness with the logos and mastheads of MediaCorp's platforms adopt a green hue and the ad where celebs make bold statement on the endangered environment.

Other examples are you can also buy the environmentally friendly products for the households such as:

1. Products with refillable containers
2. Unbleached paper products
3. Recycled paper products
4. Phosphate-free cleaning products
5. Organically grown fruit and vegetables

• There are a lot of fun and inspiring things to do to save the earth as well as the environment. Here's a website that I chance upon that are targeted at the locals mostly, to start conserving the earth.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/savinggaia/

• Another article I chanced upon is the definition that I think will make people understand better on the importance of sustainable living by protecting the environment welfare.

http://www.ciel.org/Biodiversity/WhatIsBiodiversity.html

All of us want a healthy and peaceful world that we hopefully can live in, in a longer period that is free from major environmental issues. How I wonder whether this world will live longer than us or it might be that this `world' life span will be shorter than ours; us humans......

It would be impossible to turn yourselves into a vegetarian or someone who totally environmentally friendly in an overnight transformation but we have to start from the basics such as recycling and try to conserve the resources whenever possible. Every little things that we do, does counts on what the world will become. It's best to inculcate green habits from young in a green household such as start purchasing organic cotton clothes. Apart from that we would like to see a cleaner earth.

What I've realized and remembered was that the only one time the human start to realize the importance of protecting the world environment issues was when the unexpected and a big Tsunami that had swept away Aceh; Indonesia, Thailand, part of India and Malaysia where a lot of their beloved ones died swept by the big tidal waves just in front of them while watching helplessly. To that I think it triggers them to voice out on the environmental issues and start on conserving one. But, do we really need such a thing happen again just to make us humans back on our feet and start the action to protect our world and the animals that are naturally have always been part of our life, again?

Conclusion: We must look into what we have done for all this years.... as what it says in the Michael Jackson Earth song and lyrics.

Please donate your time to protect the environment. The earth is our responsibility and please don't ever forget that.