saving the environment- the WM way?

A few years back, a US representative for a global warming conference was slapped with a cake on his face by a female pro-environmental protestor. She lamented that although the US was the highest producer of green house gases, they didn't do anything about it and yet pushed the blame to small developing countries. That incident, shown on the evening local chinese tv news, interested me..and perhaps you..

I should be around age of 15 or 17 then i couldn't remember vividly...a time when I,or WE, are spending time and interest only in our hobbies like flying kites, watching animes, hopping and jumping around everyday in full color and texture of what a perfect life is...including the few mundane process of doing homework.., a lot to look forward to the future..your career, future family...
until when tv news,documentaries and info-advertisement and promotion campaigns of companies or politicians started to bombard us with cynical and naysayer's prediction and depiction of the horrific future of the world UNLESS we start doing something about it...

Yup..GLOBAL WARMING is kinda getting out of control, the beautiful but unlucky polar bears are drowning, coastal cities are threatened to be wiped out by cyclones with record scale of damage, inland places faces desertification, thousands of small and vulnerable species of frogs,birds,insects and fish will bid their last farewell within 30 years from now,temperature will rise by 15 degrees by end of century, or we will only need 1% of the global GDP to solve the environment problem now than to spend a few times more global GDP to handle the crisis 10year down the road..
Up to now..what have you been wanting to speak?
That what i said above, is too terrible to be digested, aren't polar bears well kept in the zoo, aren't life in our city almost the same?..why must u say such terrible things of the future?

Well, the accuracy or reality of all this happenings and many others, are told by experts, we as the common people don't have those concrete information ourselves
but I choose to believe

next..what had been done so far?

small steps have been taken in developed nations like sweden who started converting most of their energy sources from natural sources, reducing need for fuel..small improvements here and there as companies are under pressured to cut down co2 emission or face fines(which mostly amounts up to $10000 only) and public pressure..sandwiched also by boards of directors who may want fat returns on their investment in the company and refuse any operation that will lower the profit of that financial year...as far as we could say..there are really improvements to the situation, a little at least..

my main focus..is that the leadership of countries must be the first to stand up, admit the situation and start taking actions..
asking and pleading citizens to save water, re-use plastic bags, don't buy CFCs products and save energy, and in meanwhile bombarding us with how bad the situation is will just be a waste of time and only depresses us more...

as in any instructions from the top down in all organizations, all instructions must be re-inforced with 1) leaderships, 2) follow-ups and 3)reviews..When Wal-Mart encourages his employees to have the 10-foot rule(to stop work instantly, walk towards,greet sincerely and ask if help is needed for any customers in that distance from the 'associates'), the leadership don't just say it loudly for a one time affair and ask their employees to do it. Instead, the leaders(the management) lead by examples themselves by being the most enthusiastic in carrying out the practices,remind on the reason of doing so frequently, follow-up on whether everybody perform it well,(counselling anybody who refuse to abide to it) and do regular reviews on whether it is a success or it's just PLAIN ASKING..
...and when the management, in our society case is the leadership, doesn't start showing to people they are doing it evidently..to what scale can the masses be enthusiastic enough to follow the call to 'help save the world'?..

we want to help save the world, but we are individuals ourselves, and we don't have the leadership control,resources and power to affect the world as much as an organization or nation does..and if the big guys don't bother about it..you can't really rely on the least empowered and resourced to be motivated to follow guidelines and feel responsible for doing it at a large context of everyday life..