Climate change has been placed on top of the list of most important global issues these days. It, too, is the big issue for the upcoming G8 summit on June 6th-8th this year with Germany as the host.
You can type the 2 magic words on a search engine (mainly google, of course), hit the search button, and your screen will be hit by a list of millions of websites consisting facts, articles, and pics surrounding the topic. All of which can take days to read.
I reckon that there are two main possibilities of people's reaction to this, perhaps, most-debated issues:
1. No reaction AT ALL a.k.a ignorance, which most possibly comes from young people (although many optimists of "sustainability in action", mainly the environmental ones, are those of the young ones as well) who have been enjoying a life of hedonism, and thus "why bother?";
2. A reaction indeed, that can lead to either cynicism or optimism that such situations of climate change can be tackled by international action from every corner of different fields, including business entities since, most environmental pickles such as hazardous chemicals and pollutions in many developing countries are most likely the fruits of MNC's industrial activities within those countries.
However, it is indeed reasonable to say that attitudes towards climate change have briskly shifted, especially among those in business world. Although, each reason is not always that of genuine ones that are purely for the purpose of a sustainable world since there still exists business people thinking that the problem is not worth to tackle or not really occuring.
My recent visit to Eden Project, a brilliant project located in St Austell, Cornwall that highlights environmental issues in an engaging and inspiring way, has successfully engaged my contemplating mind with the issues of sustainable development including climate change. The visit reminded me of my last year's coursework paper for IPE module as part of my MA course. Having no significant interests (not that i didn't care at all) on sustainable development issues, i had ended up doing a research and thus writing an essay on the issue on which i surprisingly enjoyed working. Since then, the very issue has been among my considerable interests, which are quite many, i must say.
Both the climate change and eden project have lead me to an idea of an article on eden project and the climate change. Disturbingly, the actualisation of the article can not be achieved anytime soon, it's been hindered by my tormenting ACCA exam. So, I have left with no other choice than to pencil it in for finishing it soon after the exams.
Oh well, right then... i'm out for now!
