How simply changing your Focus can save Our Planet
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do you know there are more than a
trillion ways
in which i can scramble this rubik’s
cube and with that said there are more
than a trillion ways
to solve it back but back in 2014 when i
first
learned to solve this cube i only need
one method yes
just one method to solve it and i was so
used to
with that single method that until
yesterday i was solving this cube
using the same method which i was using
since
last six years but this was still
yesterday
and not today because today i decided
to learn the other ways to solve this
problem which i was missing out on since
last six years i mean just imagine how
fast i could solve this problem if i
knew most of the ways to solve it
well this is just one problem amongst
many in this world
and certainly not of any considerable
importance but
with this understanding that there are
trillions of other ways to solve
one single problem a really important
question comes to my mind
that just like this problem there are
many other problem in this world
some of them are really crucial which
must be solved as early as possible
and by problem it can be anything from
simple math problem
a puzzle to some of the most intricate
social problem
of poverty and unemployment so for all
those crucial problems
just like what i did with the rubik’s
cube aren’t we all
getting used to by one single solution
that we are missing out on other
potential solutions
aren’t we all just doing that so back in
2018 when i
first realized the possibilities i was
missing out on
i thought it was time for me to act
and discover the other potential
solutions of some of the most crucial
problem in this world
but before that i had to select a
problem to which i will dedicate the
coming years of my life
and knowing the fact that we are at the
words of sixth
mass extinction where 200 species are
going extinct
per day average global temperature is
rapidly increasing
glaciers are melting sea levels are
rising
but the first of all amid this global
crisis
there are very few who are talking about
it
so i could not think of any other
problem except
climate change now that i had decided
the problem
it was time for me to understand and
find the
already predominant solution in the
society that will eventually help me
find other potential solutions
so i started my search to find out the
major approaches
and major solutions employed by the
front liners to solve the problem of
climate change i talked to many experts
and many climate activists and most of
them had a common answer
that was to force our leaders to make
more climate-centric laws
most of them had this common answer
which supposedly was the predominating
solution
now that i know the predominant solution
in order to find
the other potential solution of this
problem it’s important to understand the
very core reason
or outcome of making more climate
centric laws well
i didn’t had an answer to that question
so i went to an expert
and asked that what is the very core
reason or let’s say outcome
of making more climate-centric norms and
the answer he gave was quite simple
he said that will ultimately change
attitude and action of our people
with that a very important question
comes to my mind
that is changing a law or appealing our
leaders to change our law
the only way to change people’s attitude
towards climate change
the answer is definitely no from a
psychological point of view
there are three other ways apart from
law that can help in changing people’s
attitude towards climate change
with that said i don’t mean to oppose
the already existing method of
climate strike and appealing our leaders
to change law i don’t mean to oppose
that
in fact i agree it is one of the most
effective method of all
but it’s effective only if our leaders
are listening to our appeals
and seeing the recent example of error
and mullen i don’t think this method
is working well so i thought why not
focus on other three options that i had
the method of group discussion public
awareness and education
for attitude change so what i’m about to
share
is not just my personal story rather
look at it as a model
which anyone in any part of the world
can use for their regions
this model mainly employs the method of
group discussion public awareness and
education
for attitude change towards climate
emergency
so our focus group for this model is the
young population
for the worst affected by climate change
not only in short term but also
in long term and other financial and
geographical differences
make the situation even worse for the
underprivileged
this model is based on a network of
school connected through a single
organization
that is the national operator of the
entire system
this organization is responsible to
conduct different activities
with the main objective to bring
awareness amongst youth about climate
change
this includes many interactive
activities that employs all three
methods of attitude change
we conduct competitions among schools
say which school can organize
more cleanliness drives regularly or
competition can be of brainstorming
about an idea an innovative substitute
of single-use plastic products
and not only competition we also
organize regular group discussion on
both grassroot levels in school itself
and in state and national level where
students representatives from each
school come together
and raise their concerns for climate
change involving them
in all these activities in their
day-to-day life will help us change
their attitude towards climate change
and all this is achieved without doing
any climate strikes or
making useless appeals to our leaders
rather it’s achieved by simply
changing our focus on the other three
options that we had
the other three potential solutions
which were missing since last six years
also incentives are given to students in
school for their efforts in this
direction
incentives like cash price or national
recognition as eco school and eco
warrior for school and students
respectively
and as our focus group are the young
kids it’s ultimately they
the young population who are about to be
the future policy makers
the future entrepreneurs and ultimately
the one who will take on mankind forward
with all these activities a concern for
climate change
will become an integral part of a
student’s life
which will not only make them more
responsible for our society this will
also
make them more responsible for our
planet thank you