First off, I agree with raising awareness for all the following causes, and I personally try to help out in anyway possible, but keeping that in mind I postulate:
For a while now there has been the "Go Green!" campaign, cause, charity, whatever you'd like to call it. Just reiterating, I agree completely, I think we all need to try harder and I try in many ways to help, but anyway. I think this has had a good run kind of getting the word out and I see the point for it, but it could have been WAY better, not trying to say I have all these idea that could make it go way further, I just don't feel as if saying "come on guys! change your natural ways of living! its FUN!" is the most effective method of getting people to change.
On top of this, I was watching TV and saw their new save the world attempt. As if not learning from the past, the new "campaign" is Go Blue. If you don't know about this it's all about water conservation and watching how much we use. Once again, I try to abide by this, but its just gets to a point where I feel any of my attempts at this are redundant. I know that one person can make a difference, but I think that is a little out of perspective of the entire world in context to water usage.
I don't disagree with these, and think they are useful but whats next? Go Clear! a campaign for cleaner air? I know this is just a big shot at the advertising of these platforms, but I just think we can do such a better job and government money is being wasted advertising this.
I'm sure you know the saying "kids are minds of tomorrow" or something like that, just basically the younger generation is going to grow up to be tomorrows older generation. Anyway, start with them. Teach them all this, teach them to have more earth friendly habits. Spend money infiltrating the school with all this information, force it down their throats, I don't care!
I just get frustrated with the lack of effort, I mean sure you could say "Well... You saw the commercial, so I guess it does work." But no! That's not my only point. You also can't expect people to do complete 180's and reduce, reduce, reduce. I mean the "Go Green" has been around since the start of the new millennium, and look how little we are getting done! As for the Green, we need to stop being so lazy, and it should be stopped with any power usable. Make a cap on the amount of energy a house can receive. The only flaw in this plan is money. If we cap power usage, then the energy plants will lose money, which means job cuts, which means poverty. Anyway we look at this there is a losing side.
This is a bold statement but I don't think people understand the validity of these campaigns and our need to do what they say. Albert Einstein might not have said "When then bee's are eliminated from the earth, humans will soon parish" but am I the only one who remember the magic school bus? The entire episode on the ecological chain? Anyone? Anyone? I'm sure some of you have to remember, but in case you are drawing a blank, its just a chain of animals that depend on other animals to live and stay alive.
Anyway, I think I'm done... I'm not sure completely the point of this. Just watch what you do, because everything comes back to bite you in the ass.
Also if you want to know more about the blue or green campaign the websites are"
http://www.goblue.org and
http://www.gogreenontario.ca
And just a side note, if you're reading this and live elsewhere then Ontario, you are probably going "WTF is this idiot talking about?!" The Go "Blank" campaigns are mostly Ontario campaigns although the phrase is a world wide one.
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