Government’s Responsibility to Us and Our Planet

 Rachel Baker

Government’s Responsibility to Us and Our Planet

All of us at some point have thought about the eventual mysterious worldwide crash (although maybe not expecting it to come so soon). We know about the climate crisis, the resource shortages, the pollution, and the systemic problems in countries around the world, and how they’ll all eventually catch up to us. 

As an individual, or even as a massive group of people, these issues are impossible to solve. Governments will need to work together to change policies to comply with regulations encouraged by environmental scientists and activists worldwide. So, the big question is: Are governments around the world playing their part to counter the eventual global crash? And more importantly for us: even if we do all we can, will it be enough to flatten the curve- or at least give us a soft landing?

  We have the answer to the first question. According to both articles we read in class and numerous other sources: no. While policies are being implemented, discoveries are being made, trash is being recycled- it isn’t happening fast enough to halt, much less reverse, the impending environmental and environmental disaster. “The damage has been done” and all that. 

However, the world doesn’t end in a day. While we may still be screwing over our planet, at least now (most of us) at least recognize what’s been happening. The oceans are going to rise, animals are going to keep going extinct, and industries are going to pollute. But like we say in many of the articles- designing new housing for indigenous people, concrete that traps pollution, and countless other green change initiatives- humans who care about a healthy future are still continuing to innovate, regulate, and educate others. 

All of these are great things for us, and allow us to still have hope for our long-term generational quality of life… but none of these world-changing ideas can actually do anything to help without a certain group of powerful people giving the green flag. If governments don’t start putting in equal efforts to improve as their citizens do- that's when all of this “world ending” and “ahhhhh society is collapsing and I can’t get a job because the economy is tilted to benefit large corporations that severely underpay their workers and small businesses can’t stay afloat because no one has any funding because the economy is a wreck because the supply chains are crumbling because of the aforementioned environmental disaster that we totally didn’t see coming from a mile away and that the government decided to ignore in favor of going about business as usual” stuff kicks in. 

So to answer my first question: no we aren’t doing enough to stop it, and we couldn’t if we tried. But we do have the opportunity to soften our landing- we just have to cross our fingers that our governments grab it before the window closes.






(sorry, this got really long & kinda off-topic)

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