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- What is your vision for a sustainable world?
A sustainable world is a world where the resources are not used as if they were unlimited, where humans found a good balance between needs and nature's limits, where people understood that they must always keep in consideration the futur of next generations and thinks of the consequences before acting, where everyone is assuming the responsibility of taking care and helping the environment. Because if we keep acting as if the ressources are infinite , the next generations we will be forced to fall back into a primitive way of living.
- What are you planning to do to make this vision a reality?
To make this vision become true, we must act locally and think globally. And I mean that we should do little act that will have huge impact when united with other people's act, like changing our lifestyle in better way, fixing instead of trowing, recycling and re-using as much as we can and always ask ourselves before doing or buying something: Do I need it ? or do I want it ? those little acts might seem useless but if lot of people commits themselves to do them, we will see the dawn of a sustainable world.
- What impact has colonization had on our journey to a sustainable planet?
I think that colonization has had both a good and a bad impact on our journey to a sustainable planet, the negative impact is caused by the huge increase of the number of individuals, because they will have more needs and that will lead to more resources exploitation and also more reforestation because of the need of more space . and the bright side is that colonization had lead to realizing the importance of preserving the environment and trying to solve pollution problems.
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Hi Kherraz,
Thank you for your thoughtful post. You mention that colonization has helped us realize the importance of preserving the environment. Could you expand on that further? It has come up in a few blog posts and I would love to hear students thoughts on how colonization has encouraged environmental preservation. I think it is important to understand how new problems necessitate new solutions -- however, indigenous communities have known the importance of preserving the environment long before being exposed to colonialism. This conversations shift when new social dynamics arise, but that does not mean that they did not exist prior to colonization. Anyways, I would love to hear your thoughts on this!
UalbertaKendra
Oct 6, 2017