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Temitope Adeoye Oketunji
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Environmental Awareness
April 1, 2011 - 05:58 PM
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The quality of the environment affects the quality of our lives. Our actions as youths have a cumulative impact on the quality of the environment that sustains us. Our future, and the future of generations yet unborn, depends on choices we make on a day-to-day basis. we all have part to play.
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Re: Environmental Awareness
April 1, 2011 - 07:29 PM
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the awareness is growing everyday but with limited efforts towards solutions. like my big brother just said, it is time for actions that carry solutions. This is the most effective way to protect our planet.....knowing how we can do things better.Brother I support your course
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Re: Environmental Awareness
April 1, 2011 - 08:42 PM
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I have been around for some years (I'm soon 65!) and have noticed that companies during the last10 years have been increasingly more and more conscious about the environment. Now I think we must force the public institutions to take the environmental problems really serious and take bold actions! But they must act according to political "decsions" and then we have a clash between two (at least) systems, based upon different assumptions, desires and "weltanschauung". In the end, as you say Tope, it is a matter of doing, not analysing!
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Re: Environmental Awareness
April 1, 2011 - 08:42 PM
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I have been around for some years (I'm soon 65!) and have noticed that companies during the last10 years have been increasingly more and more conscious about the environment. Now I think we must force the public institutions to take the environmental problems really serious and take bold actions! But they must act according to political "decsions" and then we have a clash between two (at least) systems, based upon different assumptions, desires and "weltanschauung". In the end, as you say Tope, it is a matter of doing, not analysing!
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Re: Environmental Awareness
April 2, 2011 - 07:59 AM
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Hi  I've been a member for a while but I never really took part in anything. I'm from the Philippines and I'm a high school student. I've always wondered how we could really influence more people to be more aware of their actions towards the environment. Do you have any feasible ideas? Your reply would be great since I really want to do something and I'm really truly concerned for our environment.
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Temitope Adeoye Oketunji
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Re: Environmental Awareness
April 2, 2011 - 08:19 AM
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I am pleased that my posting has encourage someone who has been seating on the fences to jump down for action. In this part of the world, what has been encourage is to burn less energy/power. like walking/jumping on the bus instead of driving; switch off any unused appliances in the house. dispose off properly the ones that are not in use anymore. Basically, whatever generate less heat.
And very importantly, keeping your environment clean and tidy; sewage and so on.
Lets see how much response we get from these!
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Temitope Adeoye Oketunji
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Re: Environmental Awareness
April 2, 2011 - 08:21 AM
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Per, what sort of action would you have public institution take? As I am sure some of them might be reading, and observing this discussion
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Re: Environmental Awareness
April 2, 2011 - 08:22 AM
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Chijioke, I make bold to say that charity begins at home, we need to get it right from our closet before we take it out on the street.
Are we doing it right in our own home
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Re: Environmental Awareness
April 3, 2011 - 06:02 PM
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topeoketunji wrote:
Per, what sort of action would you have public institution take? As I am sure some of them might be reading, and observing this discussion
Hard question, Tope! Government can reduce taxes for renewable energy for example. They can contribute to wind or solar power plants, they can encourage research in sustainable issues and they can make it harder to build new coal or nuclear power plats for example. In the end we have to use less resources but such a policy will not attend voters so probably n othing will happend! :-(
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Re: Environmental Awareness
April 25, 2011 - 10:48 AM
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You are write because the environment we abused today will take vangence on our children or future generation
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Okonkwo Chijioke O.
heal the world and make it a better place
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Re: Environmental Awareness
May 2, 2011 - 10:10 AM
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Environmental awareness is inherent in human beings if we are not separated from nature. One of the key reasons why there are so much ecological destruction right now is because we are totally alienated from nature. People do not even know where they get their food from, where their rice come from, where their bananas are originally from. If we are able to manage this separation, we will certainly develop a deep compassion for nature and sympathy for all living beings on this planet. And we will be able to restore the earth to a healthy condition. So let's help our planet heal and go out in the ICU room.
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Re: Environmental Awareness
May 13, 2011 - 09:23 AM
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the concept of sustainable development came with no accident,it is through the planning for the future that we and they need be safe,healthier and hopeful towards the future which all together depends on the better living environment.
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May 16, 2011 - 03:38 AM
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I agree with that. Sustainable development is a good way to keep in searching and developing science in the world in daily life. We cannot stay and keep the development off but what we can do is keep learning to develop the world with ecofiendly way.
Young as leader in the future have to learn much and understand about this issue stand for so everybody in the world in the future will have a better life
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Re: Environmental Awareness
May 20, 2011 - 12:01 AM
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I think one of the problems with environmental awareness is that we are unwilling to spend money when we have it. We can replace fossil fuel emitting gases with alternative sources such as wind, solar, and renewable sources which are far more expensive but environmentally sound. We don't want to spend enough money campaigning, because people continue to use their cars and consume more than they need. I hope that environmentalists such as David Suzuki and others have the ability to endorse environmental awareness to others out there.
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Juan Camilo Velásquez Buriticá
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Re: Environmental Awareness
May 22, 2011 - 02:31 AM
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I think part of the problem is that it has taken us a lot of time from awareness to action. Although awareness is very important, it is not the end but it should just represent the means to achieving sustainable development as an ultimate end.
The effort in raising awareness has been outstanding and crucial in the attempt to make our actions "eco-friendly" however, the real change ought to come from government efforts that change the problem from its roots and at a larger scale. Awareness should be followed by clear action to change the structural basis that gave rise to the problem in the first place. This is the only way we can actually restore environmental order in the planet.
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