How Not To Save The World

If you are going to eat, the world is going to die. If you are going to breathe, the world is going to die. If you use the bathroom, the world is going to die. It’s not very encouraging, and there lies the mistake of people who want to save the environment.

Although environmentalist may have valid point when they spread their doom and gloom. It is only a point and a fact if we do nothing about the environment. However, if you are going to do something, you have to inspire people. There is only so much fear can do to push people forward.

The problem with environmentalist is that their messages is negative, and the point of the message or the motivation is fear. Fear makes people do stupid things, and fear only makes you do something quickly. Both things which you do not want people doing with the environment. Simply because, one it’s going to take a while. Two, because there have been enough stupid ideas or actions already done.

In addition to that, having a message of fear is teaching people to fear the future. And that kind of message does not spur people on in changing the future when they are afraid of it.

This brings several issues, such as, if there is no reason to do something--- Why do it? If no matter what you do, all is just going to end in pain and sorrow, why do it? While it is understandable that the situation is serious if not dire. Starting the very big project of saving the world with defeat is not going to end well.

The thing with environmentalist, and I say that in general with the ones we have, they are mainly people who are like a warning sign. They tell us that if we keep on going, we will fall off the cliff. However, that’s all it is, it cannot save you from falling off the cliff, that is something up to you.

That is why, in many ways environmentalist need to change, or people need to stop relying on environmentalist, because they have done their job. We know that the world needs better care.

And the good thing is, the world is changing, and turn around is imminent. People are learning,  to save the world you have to do something, instead of stopping something. For instance, never driving in a car is not going to save the world. Changing all the cars in the world to be more environmentally friendly will.

The world may have been in a critical state, but the world is changing and has changed. The world is doing something. Humans can and will do the impossible. However, if we are going to change the situation of the environment, we have to know there is point, and that we can do something. That is why, a message of the situation is good, but for it to be a rallying cry, not really. 

It's like how in the movie Braveheart, they don't yell out what situation they are in.  They yell how they want the situation to be.

If the world is going to be saved, it has to be people who can see beyond the future of the problem, and not those who only look at the problem. The thing about those who are really making a difference in this world, they are those who can see beyond the destruction of earth at our own hands. Those who are preparing beyond and into the future, are those who will live in a better world.