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I am an instructor, author, voice actor, motivational speaker, and international businessperson who places betterment ahead of every other initiative. While the majority of my life is spent contemplating about lexicons, it is my firm belief that actions speak louder than words. My mission in life is simple: to make a difference by being different.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Our Planet, Our Home

 “There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.”  ~Robert Orben

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”  ~Cree Indian Proverb

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”  ~Native American Proverb


A mere look and a slight contemplation towards the aforementioned statements are more than sufficient to awaken the most barricaded of minds. As the days go by, humanity finds itself more and more in ordeal with the earth in all conceivable aspects not knowing that the real struggle exists within itself.

The global attention regarding the dire need for substantial changes in the way we, the tenants of our planet earth, treat our very home has been steadily increased over the years especially among academics and intellectuals . Alas, such tending is a direct result of the evident impacts done on our environment and their respective trauma; an impairment that is getting us closer and closer to an uninhabitable world due to the abuse committed by none other than ourselves.

Air pollution, global warming and inexplicable weather patterns, the dwindling supply of clean drinking water, reduction of fertile soil, increased level of poisonous chemicals in all elements of the planet earth, raise in the level of radioactivity as well as seismic functions, …, the list goes on! 


But why?! Why should we let our own sanctuary be affected by our own greed?

The following video is an elaboration on ways upon which, the world can see a reversal in its destructive path by allowing the environment to lead us towards its destiny,
 


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