Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Earth Charter


The Earth charter’s main goal is to have everyone contribute to the earth and make sure the earth will be a great home for people of today and tomorrow. The earth charter states, “To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace.” The earth charter looks at the concern with keeping the earth a beautiful place that is somewhere that we can live off the land and have a sustainable lifestyle. There were many factors that could contribute to how our environment is in the future, how sustainable it is, and how well humans can use its resources. Earth charter stated that, “The global environment with its finite resources is a common concern of all peoples.” This brings up the concern that there are non-renewable resources that we are depleting rapidly and if there will be a solution when we finally run out of these resources. I think this is a hard topic and something that will have to be looked at when the problem actually occurs. I think until we run out of a resource and are forced to find a new way we may have some alternate solutions that few will use but will not take off until they need to. The earth charter seems like a good idea on paper but I’m not sure if it could actually be acted out and work as we would like it to. Although if there was a way to ensure all of the ideas of the earth charter are occurring that I think it is a start to helping, protecting, and preserving our environment for people today and tomorrow. Finally, the earth charter stated that, “To realize these aspirations, we must decide to live with a sense of universal responsibility, identifying ourselves with the whole Earth community as well as our local communities.” I like these words to end it with, and feel it sums up their ideas and the human responsibility that should be happening to ensure conservation of the earth.

No comments:

Post a Comment