Environmental day and green lies.

Today we can hear about lots of green activities. Why people began to talk about green all of a sudden? Until the nature began to punish human beings slowly, they did not want to talk about green. The development mindset does not allow people to understand the value of nature and natural environment. People still believe that the concept of development is perfect and totally progressive as well. People are talking about green activities while they are doing the opposite by giving their priority to the industrializing of countries and executing development plans.

                        Major fact is most of people have no nature friendly ideologies. If people cannot think in a nature friendly manner, they cannot protect nature as well. Ideologies like development, liberal democracy and western post modernism teaches people to be selfish, collect resources and riches individually and deem any activity which makes commercial advantages as the progress of humankind even they are not nature friendly. Political situation of any country is corrupted today. Present politics are aiming the development and other commercial tasks while disregarding the nature and natural environment in anywhere.

                        First we must teach future generation to think in a nature friendly manner. Then the next generation will raise nature friendly thinkers who can change the way of destructive thinking. We must develop the co-operation instead of individualism. Talking about green without doing these things is not meaningful. The concept of “green” is another popular lie which blinds us and preparing us to forget real problems related to the nature and environment.  

The long term solution for environmental problems

If there is an environmental management which is more successful, there should be a non destructive way of resource utilization. Gross utilization and higher wastage of every kind of resources will lead to destroy the environment too. Industrialization without any standard is the biggest reason for this situation. However some countries have industry centric economical systems. These economical systems are basically targeting the commercial goals. So the commercial goals are more important than the environment to the people who are depending on the industrial economy. However if we really hope to protect the environment, this situation must change.

            The best alternation is replacing the industry centric economical systems with agriculture centric economical systems. With the agriculture it is easy to manage the environment more efficiently without destroying. On the other hand food is a major requirement, so the agriculture is an essential part of any economical system in any country. And it is possible to maintain other industries with the agriculture, also with a proper standard. However this cannot be an easy task.

            First we must study again about how the world was changed after the industrial revolution. And also we have to research whether the way of changing the world can totally accept or not. It is clear that the people who lived in Europe in 18^th century when the industrial revolution is beginning were not thought of protecting the environment. They just wanted to establish and develop industries. The present generation has to take all the things which are happening as a result of the mistakes done by the past generations.      

             If we can control our selves, we can give the priority to protect the environment rather than giving priority to the commercial goals. To do this we have to control our minds. So we have to teach the future generation to live close to the nature and understand the value of natural environment. Then the future generation will control the industrialization with a proper standard. And they will be more sensitive to the environmental values.