Tamara Ribbers
We’re ruining the earth. No, don't say: “it’s not that bad”. C’mon guys, it is! Remove the plate out of you sight and see clear. Stop sitting lay-back in your grandpa chair and stand up. Stand up for the world! Stand up for your health! And stand up for your next generations!
What really annoys me, are all people who are afraid for a change or provocation, but who own the cash flow. I don’t like serious people, who cannot see how changing attitude can lead to innovation and only use boring strategy’s and policies. Those people are always beating around the bush, but don’t come to a solution. Such as our own bureaucracy. C’mon don’t be so serious, be innovative, creative and think out of the box! Only this way you can change the world.
Wubbo Ockels said in an interview of the ‘Milieudefensie Magazine juli/augustus 2007’:”Sun and wind produce more energy we can use, a factor of 8000 worldwide. We must use this more elegant. The industrial revolution went through nature as a bulldozer. I see us as a part of nature. The post-industrial revolution, where we are now, must exists out of an intelligent, nice game with nature, which ruins nothing but is only value increasing. This wakes you up. A lot of things we do now are narcotic”. Seems clear, people must wake up and something must change.
Of course I can understand your fear. Each radical innovation includes an uncertainty. But the reason we have to, is that only a dramatic change can transform existing markets or industries, or creates new ones. Our markets and industries must be changed to sustainable markets and industries. The capitalism and governance how it is at the moment will not give the acceleration which we need to introduce a sustainable lifestyle on time (Europa Nu, 2007). A high power like the United Nations must oblige sustainability within business models of all organizations within the world. At the 30th of November till the 11th of December 2015, the 21th yearly climate conference of the United Nations finds place in Paris (Sluiter, 2007). If United Nations reads this, please force all countries to action. Only then we can save the world.
The world is dying. Since we are part of the world, we are dying too. Do you want to walk around with surgical masks like in China every day? To clear this up. China was the country who didn’t agree on a convention on climate change because of their capitalism (Europa Nu, 2014). We are going the same way as China due to the environment. There will be a moment we cannot breath in our air, cause we will get ill of it. Nice living. Thanks Humanity.
Change.. or dy. It’s your choice.
Sources
Europa Nu. (2014) Klimaatconferentie Lima 2014 (COP14). Consulted at the 2nd of October 2015, Retrieved from http://www.europa-nu.nl/id/vjmhfqyoelrv/klimaatconferentie_lima_2014_cop2014
Liesbeth Sluiter. (2007) Duurzame toekomst. Consulted at the 2nd of October 2015, Retrieved from
https://downtoearthmagazine.nl/wubbo-ockels-duurzame-toekomst