In October 2006, the World Wildlife Fund (Wwf) released its each year 'Living Planet Report' - detailing the global impact on natural resources and the declining numbers of animal species that are dependent upon them. It also offered solutions on how to reverse the downward trends in these areas. This year's description also explores the impact of human action on the planet and concludes that the world's natural ecosystems are being run down at a rate never seen before in human history.
The 'Living Planet Report' makes the dreadful inference that the world's population of creature species have declined by a third since 1970, thus confirming the worst of human fears: that humanity is using up the planet's resources at a much faster rate than which they can be produced. Carter S. Roberts, President and Ceo of the Wwf, commented:
"The lowest line of this description could not be more clear - for twenty years we've lived our lives in a way that far exceeds the carrying capacity of the Earth. The choices we make today will shape the possibilities for the generations which succeed us. The fact that we live beyond our means in our use of natural resources will admittedly limit opportunities for time to come generations to follow."
In fact, the Usa, as the world's important buyer society, is seen to be at the forefront of what the Wwf description calls 'resource overshoot' - the use of more resources than is sustainable by the planet. This makes it all the more important for institutions in the Usa - including the government, parents and teachers - to teach our children (the "future generations" that Roberts talks about) with such concern of exactly how harmful human behaviour can be to the planet.
In an exertion to try to educate children, there has, to date been a range of efforts made by distinct sources on how best to sustain the environment for time to come life. For example, the United Nations Environment schedule (Unep) runs a children's educational reserved supply called Tunza, which aims to work in partnership with children over the world in order to equip them with the tools needed to declare the environment for their own children in turn.
With environmental and wildlife awareness having become so much more prevalent in favorite culture while the last ten years - straight through sources as wide ranging as The Body Shop's 1990s goods packaging, straight through to Al Gore's recent movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' - many larger organisations that are not traditionally related with education have jumped on board. For instance, Doubletree hotels runs a schedule called 'Teaching Kids to Care®' - a special educational initiative that aims to bring wildlife and environmental awareness to the forefront of the classroom.
With the continued initiation of this and other, similar programs both in America and over the world, there is the possibility that such programs will enable a reversal of the downward trend of environmental damage; possibly allowing for the Wwf's Living Planet description to predict a much more promising time to come for the world in time to come years.
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