CLIMATE CHANGE WHAT YOU WERE NEVER TAUGHT AT SCHOOL BY
BOJANA BOGOJEVIC LAW AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE LAWYER, POST-GRAD SPECIALIST FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, AND UN CLIMATE TEACHER AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE If I start this article according to the present situation in Climate Change, it would be written in red and you would probably hear an emergency alarm. I don’t want to frighten you, but the situation isn’t naive. Believe me it is far from naive, far from the global trick of politicians, or another fashion trendy movement called Climate change.
Why it is like that ?
Because more than a half of population thinks Climate Change is connected just with global warming or weather conditions. Yes, they are right but those are just the most visible consequences which you can’t see - only if you are blind or you turn a blind eye, but even so you have sense of hearing and are capable to feel the heat, smell the smoke in the air, polution etc....
Population isn’t guilty . Nobody educated us about this . I remembered I had Ecology Law in my last year at Belgrade Faculty of Law. But, unfortunately, I see we are still dealing with the same problem. I had hoped 10 years later we wouldn’t be fighting over emissions.
We have come to the conclusion - knowledge is the most important thing if we want to survive, and stop climate change. But we can’t share our knowledge if we don’t educate ourselves, and
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others. I won’t frighten you, but Climate Change is a long term battlefield - a championship we must win together. Single acts aren’t enough, we all have to take a serious part, or we will loose our home and we only have one Earth .
The best leaders lead by example, the best Professors teach by example, and our leaders and professors are our parents, after that the society we live in. We are already shaped as people and can further continue to educate what we have learned and achieved through our knowledge and behaviour.
So if we want to act globally, because this must be a globally coordinated action, we must start to educate at all levels;, schools, companies, societies how can avoid the consequences in the future
through the earliest stage approach we will be able to focus more on prevention.
Yes it is a Global battlefield! Yes it must be coordinated! Yes we must act immediately!
But to avoid answers like :”I can’t do anything you forbid no single act .” The battle can’t be won by a single heroic act, but we all can be a Joan of’Arc in society, in our homes, on networks and more. Every single acts counts. Yes, it will be hard. You will hear a lot of “ can’t “, “ don’t know”, “stop”, etc. Any excuse, avoiding actions and not accept responsibility.
But remember, we all cleaning our homes. And, now Earth needs a big cleaning.
