Choosing between whether your going to act, I believe is affected not only by your emotions in the moment but also by your morals. An individual’s moral regarding their religion, where they were brought up, their culture, their occupations etc helps to shape how an individual may treat a situation. Essentially to even act upon a situation, one needs to feel obliged to feel as though it can be accomplished. These factors previously stated contribute to the outcome immensely. For example, an individual of a wealthy background, living in a fully developed country, may or may not decide to help people in a developing country. This could be because the individual feels as though they could not make a difference or because they are in fear of their own life. Although this does have adequate reasoning behind it, in reality this occurs frequently. Nevertheless, there are many scenarios in which an individual can help, but choose not to because of some form of negligence. As a global citizen we need to step back and realize that any global scenario should be helped whether or not your particular country is being affected by it. The question is, how? There are many different ways in which individuals can help to act upon a global situation. I think a very influential choice to take action is making our government aware. This is because on a national scale, the government can educate their people through commercials etc and on an international scale; our government can make awareness at meetings such as the UN. A personal example I choose to act upon is helping the environment. Little acts such as sorting my garbage to see how much I can compost and recycle to hang-drying my clothes to avoid using the dryer. These little undertakings although make me feel as though I am taking action, if everyone took part in this, it would create a huge, positive impact on our world.
Yes, the frequent question is how. How do I help or how can I make a difference? But if people start changing their perspective and mindset from questionning how to help, to answering the questions, thousands to millions of more people can be helped!
ReplyDeleteRaising awarness about issues is a very important to taking action. As for your personal example, what you have done has made a beneficial impact and difference on our environment. Through your actions, awarness can be made about the environment and various green initiatives that can be done to make our world greener. Awesome job!
Raising awareness is definitely a great way to solve problems. Many problems occur in our world simply because of ignorance. One cannot change something they do not know about.
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