A recent article from the Times news network has talked about a rise in the green house gas emissions of industrialized nations in the west being an indicator of their economies returning partly to health. The United States' net CO2 output was close to 6 billion tonnes back in 2006 when the economy was chugging along sufficiently well, but dropped nearly to 5 billion tonnes when recession hit. The situation was similar east of the Atlantic in the Euro zone. Good news for the environment certainly, but hardly the desirable the way of going green, what with so many people in distress.
Now however things have begun to look up again for the economy, and the wheels of industry have started speeding up. Naturally, fuel consumption is inching higher, pulling emissions with it as expected. So the point has been reached where the amount of pollution we cause has become the litmus test for the economy. The reason onebluesphere finds this worthy of note is that this goes on show how flawed our current development pattern is. We have created a system for ourselves where sustainable development has been banished to the backbenches of human priority, allowing repeated assaults on the fragile environmental balance that we ought to preserve. Not enough is being done in promoting green technologies, not enough investments are being made by governments in alternative energy sources. It is vital that people understand the need for adopting more energy-conserving ways of life, and influence policy decisions to that end. It must be our collective goal to create a world where economic health is no longer achieved at the cost of environmental health. Onebluesphere urges all readers to spare some time and thought to consider what they can do in their own ways (as talked about in the previous post) to help attain that goal.
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