Blog Action Day

Today is BLOG ACTION DAY, a fantastic project started by a friend of mine that is reaching millions of people around the world. Blog Action Day is an initiative to have as many people (or bloggers in this case) unite to write about an important issue all on the same day. The issue being "the environment".

In thinking about what to write on the environment, I was reflecting on how important is the environment to me personally and all I could think about was well it is extremely important, as everything is related to the environment. The environment is all around us, every second, minute and day of our lives, its simply there. We can't escape it. Everywhere we go it's there. Every action we do affects it (which for the most part unfortunately has been negative) and without it we can't live. Yet this mere and essential basic thing in our life has for the most part been forgotten and taken for granted. We forget that every little thing we do will inadvertently come back and affect us. For example a simple thing as walking on the street and accidentally stepping on an ant and killing it without realising, has a significant impact on the environment, and when the environment gets affected, we get affected in the cycle process.

The issue of trying to rectify the problem of global warming and the preservation of the environment is one of the most debated topics in the world today. Developed and developing countries are in constant argument as to who should reduce the most gas emissions, whose problem it is, who is responsible to fix it etc. Individuals including myself feel that such issue has no relevance at our level of society and that it is something that the governments of the world can try to solve among themselves, because there is nothing you or I can do to solve the problem. And I believe that's where the problem is, in why we are not fixing the problems affecting the environment. We as individuals can do so much more even at the smallest scale in a faster way than what the governments and international institutions are currently attempting to do. If as individuals we take conscious decisions to try to become more aware on what and how our daily actions are affecting the environment, we will be able to reduce the problem of global warming and other environmental problems significantly and quickly.

As individuals we spend so much time and money in trying to take care of our physical bodies. We spend time and money on various cleansing treatments and products, cosmetics and surgery, haircuts, gym memberships, particular foods and other dietary supplements, the list can be endless and we do all these things because we care about our bodies and what it to be the best that it can be, so why don't we spend the same amount of time, effort and money for taking care of our outer unnoticed body "the environment". If one looks at the environment as the body of the world and as the outer layer or skin that enables us humans to live comfortably in the world then we would most likely be spending the same amount of time and money in keeping it as best as we can. Just as when one of our organs isn't functioning well affects the rest of our body, so does a problem in one area of the environment such as polluting in one country have on the whole world.

So basically if you didn't understand what I was blabbering on above, what I'm trying to say is that individuals can do so much for in trying to keep and preserve the environment and that we shouldn't leave it to governments or institutions to try and solve the problem. Every action we do to improve the environment from recycling, taking public transport etc can do so much to help the environment. The preservation of the environment is the responsibility of every single one of us and we shouldn't pass the buck as they say to someone else.