पर्यटन Challenges environmental
Sustainable futures or broken promises? A youth perspective on global environmental governance
Youths are the torch bearers of human civilization. Therefore, youths must act in a proactive manner to disseminate global crises as evolved from time to time. In this regard, his/her environmental concerns are no exception. So far as global environmental concerns are taken into account, youths of today’s world must act as a bridge between environmental governance and its past experiences and the sustainable futures which they want to achieve.
Thus, the role of youths in today’s world is to act like an agent which guides the world towards sanity so far as global environmental governance and its nitty grittiest in the emerging global scenario. Youths must not shy away from his responsibilities with regards to mitigating various environmental crises and thereby finding its solutions. Youths of todays world must promote sanity and serenity over chaos and anarchy so far as environment and environmental governance are taken into account.
The very yardstick upon which sustainable future relies, so far as environmentalism is concerned, is a broader and cautious approach towards various environmental issues. This broader and cautious approach towards environmentalism relies on a path which abides by the dictum of ‘look before you leap’. In this process, youths of the world must practice and make it their guiding mantra of their life to act promptly on all those environmental concerns which they preach. The path towards sustainable futures lies in implementing a proactive action with regard to environmental governance.
This proactive action must be implemented in such a manner that it leads to a pathway of coherence and amity for the world being so far as environment conservation movement of ours is concerned. Thus, the youths of today’s world must overcome all those shackles which prohibits and restricts them in making environment conservation a myth in the real sense of the term instead of being a reality. The barriers which separate the world being in approaching towards a sustainable future, as far as environmental issues are concerned is the very callous and escapist approach towards their very life.
It can be rightly pointed out that, what ails the world being in their efforts of sustainable development, as far as environmentalism is concerned is the voidness between the promises that they make and what they really practice, In the last few decades the world being has seen many environmental conferences from the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 to the recent COP 28, the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in the later part of 2023. What is missing in this regard is a proactive action on the part of world being led by their leaders so far as environment conservation is concerned.
All these developments lead us towards a scenario where the gap between sustainable futures and the diversion from its path and thereby making it itself a broken promise is quite wide. The pathway towards sustainable futures or, in other words, the path of achieving sustainable development lies in an effort led by the wise and cautious mind on the part of the world being towards environmentalism. This can be achieved by making environment conservation as a goal to be achieved by the world being on a war footing.
In this effort of the world being, their best guide and friend seems to be the probity and serenity of their mind. The serene mind of the world being must be able to see their surroundings and environment as pure and beautiful as their mind seems to be. In this endeavor, we the world being must look and analyze nature as something which is ancillary and corollary to each other, so far as existence and sustenance of each other are concerned. In this way, human being and his surrounding environment will certainly become interrelated with one another.
Yes, it is certainly a reality that the need for environment conservation precede human beings’ existence. In the same way, our future survival as human being is marked by making sustainable development as our guiding mantra for the times to come. Therefore, it is important to remember that youths of this world must act as a connecting link between the promises which they make towards environment conservation and the sustainable future which they want to achieve in the long run which are certainly interrelated with one another.
The path for the youth in this endeavor seems to act as a coherent and reliable agent of environment conservation where the youths of this world enlighten each and every stratum of the global society with their empowered mind and vision for the times to come. Youths of this world must guide the kids and the teenagers towards a path by dint of which they turn out to be agile and proactive enough so far as the movement of environment conservation is concerned. Today’s kids and teenagers have the pivotal responsibility of leading and guiding the global environment conservation movement. Therefore, these tiny tots and teenagers must be imbibed with the sense of love and respect for nature and natural beings for the times to come.
Our efforts of building a sustainable future will be incomplete and lackadaisical without the active support of the female sex. Female sex has been an active force in this world so far as the environment movement is concerned. Female sex both as a homemaker as well as a workforce has the herculean responsibility of guiding the world being towards our efforts of achieving a sustainable future. The female sex since time immemorial has been acting as the friend, philosopher and guide for the male sex in every domain of life and the domain of environment conservation is not untouched by it.
The youths of this world led by their female counterpart must take the vow of building a future in which they fulfill or, in other words implement all those promises which they make so far as environment conservation is concerned. Female sex is known for their calm and kind approach towards life. This calm and kind approach towards life must engulf with it the domain of environment conservation under its purview. The female sex of this world must turn out to be the pioneer and path finder of the movement of environment conservation.
Thus, in a nutshell our efforts or approach towards achieving a sustainable future lies in our efforts of involving all and sundry of this globe in this environment movement of ours. In this regard, the youths of this world must not hesitate to lead this environment movement of ours. Youth is the stage of life when the body, mind and spirit remain active and agile. The youths of this world therefore must utilize this active and agile body, mind and spirit in the movement of environment conservation.
These efforts on the part of the youths in the global forum in the long run will certainly blur the dividing line between the so-called broken promises and the goal of achievement of a sustainable future in the times to come. In this way, the world being with the passage of time will be able to achieve their desired serene environment which they rightfully owe. The world being led by the youths in this development will be certainly able to achieve an environment which will turn the world into a much better place to live in.
By: JNANDEEP BORA
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