11th hour

We, consumers, didn’t see the picture lies ahead whenever we buy something new. We just buy, throw away the old ones and that’s all we do. We don’t settle in one thing, instead we buy more stuff to gain satisfaction, but are we really satisfied? I guess not, material things only give us happiness for a short time so when we get tired of this thing, we buy and consume new things. Consumption is not bad; it is that our consumption is out of balance.

We all know about the industrial revolution, and this led to several changes. One of its pros is the use of machines and development of it. I think this pros leads to the cons, because after this industrial revolution nature became our resource. Due to Industrial Revolution, exponential growth of population occurred because of the ease of production of goods and our resources. One of our resources is the oil. Oil has become the basis in which we sustain complexities. We enormously extract oil and use it to power our car, home and lights our city.  We are subsidized by oil. Corporations managed oil companies, and they tend to extract so much oil from the environment not thinking that these are non-renewable sources of energy.  Irresponsible Corporation dumps toxic materials everywhere like in besides a bay, river or even land areas. They only think about their wealth and they didn’t think of the health of our mother earth. With great power comes a great responsibility, I think that this must be the tag line of every corporation. We must take responsibilities of our actions; we must be responsible of the resources we take from our mother earth.

Too much use of our resources due to human activities leads to many catastrophic change like acid rain problem, climate change, greenhouse effect. The staggering destruction of our ecosystem will not only affect the animals, our environment but also us, who use and waste our resources. Human exploitation of the planet is approaching the critical limit and we must be concern about it. The problem is not about the global warming or other catastrophic change, these are just symptoms but the problem is the way we are thinking, our consumerism ideology. We don’t know the damage we are creating and in the end we will pay a price, the revenge our nature.

In every problem there is a solution, I believe that there is a great thing in this dilemma. This is a great time for engineers, scientist and other professionals to design a sustainable system. I, as a Mechanical Engineering student, will be a part of design engineers to re imagine and rebuild every single thing we did. Let us not be narrow-minded about what is already happening but open our eyes to see the big picture, to new possibilities and changes, a change that benefit our mother nature, us and future generations. There is a limited time for us and our planet earth, the only solution I see is to change our way of thinking and redirect our focus on what will help our future generation to see and experience the wonders of our resources, our natural resources. We must create a culture wherein there is mutual interaction of science and the world around us in a sustainable fashion. We must be in harmony with nature. It’s not the end of everything, nor is it’s not late to start a change, what matters most to act NOW and be part of a better change for the future.