A person or a system for CHANGE?by | 16-06-2014 02:57 |
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What does it take to bring a real change, a real difference in the lives of the people? I have been asking this question to myself, to many political, environmental, social authorities around for a long time. In a way I have my answer and in a way, I don?t have it as well. Is it a person, a leader that can bring a change or is one person?s endeavor futile in what has to be a network of system for change? I would like to link this article here entirely to the environmental issues of my country I was just arranging my curriculum vitae for a position as a volunteer in a local environmental organization when I got startled a while. By the few works I have done plus the numerous works done by several youths in my community plus the governmental actions plus the international interventions, it is a simple mathematical calculation that Chitwan, where I am currently living in had to be cleaner and greener by many folds. But no! Results show otherwise. Then, where are we lacking? If you tell a child not to throw garbage everywhere but in dustbins, he/she might do that. It is not a great challenge. The garbage when thrown in the dustbins when dumped properly in sanitary landfills and properly designed dumping sites, it is not a challenge either. But when you teach a child to throw the wastes in dustbins, he/she does that but unfortunately, the garbage doesn?t find a decent disposal then, it is a challenge now. Getting back to my previous question, is a person enough for change? In this case, I must say all the environmental teachings are going in vain because of improper system. Here, in my place, it won?t be an exaggeration to say that no actions of awareness will be fruitful in long run if the whole system doesn?t function properly. In a country like ours, a child will soon forget that wastes have their places in dustbins and not on the streets if he/she sees no results. Right now, environmental volunteers are not in position to create a system of sustainable environmental solutions. For that, the government has to take actions hand in hand. Environmental activities and programs have raised voice here in my region but I would love to see the voice take shape of work and not just any work but the work that leaves us a better place to breathe in
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