Let’s face it, we Canadian are some of the luckiest people
to be living in the country we do today. With one of the strongest democracies,
the highest percentage of available fresh water and are generally respected
around the globe. Yet, within the next 50 years there are some issues we could
potentially face if we do not try to fix them today. I believe the threat
Canada will most likely be effected by in the next 50 years is the way we are
treating our environment. The way we treat our environment now does not have
instantaneous effects but rather will affect us with time. Since us human do
not see any drastic problems at the moment, we fail to realize that we will see
effects down the road. For
example, the basic standard green house gas affect, primary seen through the
excessive use of vehicles on the roads. We do not see dramatic affects right
now, but until we see extreme changes I don’t think Canadians wont do anything
to alter their lifestyle. As sad as it is, it seems to be the reality of the
situation and us world issues students need to continue to educate others on
these issues. This is because education has a long term affect on individuals,
and if we start to educate young child, they can bring it through their primary
and secondary education experience. If we put that into perspective, that’s
almost 20 years of influence! Being seventeen years old, there are certain
things in my education that I never seem to forget and those are primarily the
basic things I learned from a young age. So if we make these environmental
concepts as simple for a young person to interpret I believe we will be set for
50 years down the road when they are the leaders of today. To plan ahead we
have to target the individuals who will be living then.
You're right that we are all extremely lucky to live in this great country! Though there is so much good that goes on in so many areas of our nation, there are still some glaring issues. The environment is definitely one of them. We as Canadian's need to stop the "gun mentality" where we only act when disaster is almost imminent. We need to start better planning for our future in terms of our environment and its protection.
ReplyDeleteThere's an old belief that we learn everything that's truly important in kindergarden. How to share, how to "play nice"...the list goes on. Education is really important, especially when it comes to protecting the environment, but I think many people focus on the "generation of tomorrow" to fix the environment, when really, the government officials and citizens of today have great power to make a positive impact and help clean up our act.
ReplyDeleteI feel very fortunate to be living in Canada as well, and we should consider ourselves very lucky with the situations we are in! It's very unfortunate that everything can just be destroyed like that because we treat our environment so badly. Canadians are among some of the worlds largest polluters and it would be majorly beneficial to use as a nation and to the world in general if we literally cleaned up our act.
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