Our environment and our leadership...

During the recent world climate impact meeting in December (2010), global leaders met in Can Cun and attempted to establish positive efforts and demanded that they must seriously take a positive direction in saving our planet. Leaders in the past have negotiated over 100 environmental treaties like in Brazilia (2005), Kyoto (2008) and many other places but they never accomplished their goals; and now, it seems that today’s leadership is finally synchronizing to this specific goal. This force, however, must be well-organized, objective and wholeheartedly committed, leaving nationalistic-political-business interest behind, if we do not want our planet to continue on deteriorating. Harmful contaminants in our planet must be eliminated immediately. Scandals like the destruction of our atmosphere, contaminations of our rivers and oceans, poor air quality, planet warming, or poor businesses ethics which have caused much harm must not be allowed to continue.
The development of the basically wholesome economic phenomenon must be harmonized with other imperatives, like the extreme preservation of the environment and the general welfare. Otherwise we will find ourselves in an industrial jungle, with towns so polluted that life itself will be in danger of extinction. Among current outcries of awareness that strict controls and enforcement are needed, we must track down corporate abuses globally, which reveal disregard among business corporations for the rights of the consumer and citizen. These are but partial reactions which will not decide the basic problem. A true meaningful balance between economic and political power must be recreated, economic and political responsibility. The greatest danger presently is that different nations may indulge their jealous, destructive instincts vis-a-vis the multinational fact. Under the pretext of controlling the flows and patterns of world business activity, the different contaminant countries, whether motivated by politics, economics or ideology, are quite capable of destroying our planet and international trade altogether, and, with it, our hope for prosperity and peace.