Going Green, So Late?

Category: Environmental Issue
Article: "Big Businesses Go Green"
From: Straits times 3 Feb 07
Many have heard of the phrase "a stitch in time saves nine" it applies to many divers context in life, I can make a connection between the article and some Singapore scenarios: Casino opening, gaming what they all have in common is addiction, and that if we do no quickly cease that addiction we might fall into a trap that we may never get out of, basically these things will contribute to social problems and they will have a chain reaction of effects such as broken families or even bankruptcy.
This article that I have read I from the pro-green activists point of view, and that the assumption is that our world is slowly dying hence the combined effort of big corperations. This article is part of a full report on climate change that affects our lives where the forecast is extremely bleak. The big companies have pledged to remove all green house gas emissions from all of their products. By doing this i am sure that Nike would suffer a loss of profit maybe due to poorer quality products because they have to watch out for the green house gases. I think that monetary incentives should be given to these companies to encourage more campanies to cut down on their carbon dioxide output that is if we are looking at it in a novel way.
I feel Singapore is very deprived of natural sources hence, we do not feel the full blow of global warming, we do not have corals nor Dolphins or even snow to see it deplete slowly before our very own eyes so we feel that the world is doing fine but in fact it is not; and the fact that I am barely fifteen years old and have not seen much of the world, I am no doubt very angry with them for not thinking thoroughly and not considering the consequences of emitting so much carbon dioxide into our beautiful world.
Everyone has a part to play when it comes to fighting global warming; it simply boils down to every single citizen of the world. The situation has worsened to such an extent that the world's largest corperations are banding together to conserve the environment.
I believe that the only reason they are doing this is because the human existence is at stake, I feel that humans naturally have to be stricken with fear before we actually begin to do something constructive for the world but unless that happens we will only care for nobody but ourselves.
I myself have to start doing something for the world , last year in Singapore the temperature was never this high before and this year Singapore has had the worst flood in decades and this happens to coincide with the report, so it makes me feel scared and think whether i will be able to live to a ripe old age.
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