This is the day we have been awaiting for the past few weeks. Today we will talk about climate change as a contribution to Blog Action Day 2009. As I declared previously, positive thinking touches all walks of our lives, the same applies to Climate Change – we have a role to play.
It is very easy to point fingers at others when it comes to talking about climate change and global warming. Climate change and global warming are different things but they normally go together – the later is a sign of the earlier. In most cases, we put the blame to our political leaders both at international and national levels. There is another battle between the developed and developing world – each trying to prove that the opponent is more responsible for the climate change. The discussion hovers on the developed world putting the blame on poverty, while the developing world incriminating the opponent’s industries. I am not trying to nullify the arguments from each side but I rather feel that the fight is causing harm more than good to the efforts on climate change. Bringing this at a personal level, the result is the story of nobody’s job which is very dangerous to each if not all sides.
The Badge
Pointing fingers or search for the witch affects the way we feel about climate change. The effects are in two folds, one being the notion that climate change is something afar from our surroundings and the other being feeling unconcerned or rather unburdened. It is my feeling that it’s easy to think that climate change is a devil affecting people far from us and it doesn’t make sense to talk about it. In other words, there is a perception or belief that climate change is either non-existent and even if it does, it affects others. Although it is common to hear people among us mentioning climate change when we face high temperature increase and other things like drought, we still feel that the causes are either unknown or if they exist, they must be caused by other people than us.
It is time to change the way we feel about climate change. Climate change is in our vicinity and we are living with it. The effects of global warming are remarkable and terrific to us all. Upon this, it is my urge to all to take action (including myself). There is a very simple principle to help this agenda and that is “starting from within” or for simplicity we may call it SFW. Starting from within involves letting each of us feeling concerned and responsible to climate change. The word “starting” in the SFW principle has a very important meaning and thus shows a continuous process. In other words, the whole process will start at each of us and continue to others. Putting this into actions, it refers to feeling responsible for the climate change and taking actions by involving the issue in everything we do in our daily life. To my colleagues in the positive thinking journey, climate change alike, it is a life embedded endeavour. If we are able to do this (of which I know we can), I am confident and positive that the fight against climate change will have a real and desired outcome.
It doesn’t require rocket science to know that our societies and all the institutions embedded within are formed by individual or group of people. In simple words, it is you and me making the world. We can now see how SFW can result into a world free of blame but rather all people joined together with a common goal and efforts towards managing climate change.
Together we can!!!!
