THE ENVIRONMENTAL ROAD
by Antonio C. Antonio
July 20, 2014
A friend called today to ask if I have finally abandoned my
environmental advocacy and segued to socio-political ones. Perhaps he noticed that my posts and blogs
lately have veered away from the usual.
Well… I informed him that the present-day political issues are just too
hard to resist and I felt compelled to also throw in my little thoughts. I also assured him that I have not abandoned
my environmental advocacy although it’s healthy to come up with socio-political
and human interest topics once in a while..
An advocacy, for all intent and purpose, is also a political process
which aims to influence public policy and resource allocation decisions within
political, economic and social systems and institutions. Advocacies may include individual or group
undertakings aimed at engaging individual or collective action on a particular
concern or issue. And, as a matter of approach, my little contribution to
public discourse on environmental matters is simply providing perspectives that
would generate thoughts from anyone who reads and internalizes the things I
write about. After all, the environment
is such a broad concept that should include most everything that influences
human life such as economics, business, natural resources management, etc.
On the other hand, environmentalism includes a broad spectrum of
concerns like philosophy, ideology and social movements particularly on
concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of Mother
Earth… not to mention other sciences that are intertwined with ecology. Environmentalism, as a concept, also
incorporates all biotic and abiotic elements that exist on our planet. With this, it is easy to visualize how huge
and diverse are the conceivable topics one could write about with regards to
the environment and environmentalism.
But in spite of this, environmentalism largely remains unpopular and not
as “in” as political blockbusters. This
is perhaps the challenge that environmental advocacies have to contend with.
Whatever popular conditions may prevail, I am absolutely committed to my
environmental advocacy. What sustains
environmental bloggers (like me) in this rather lonely and not-too-popular undertaking
are the comments (affirmative or negative) and “likes” from other concerned
people. So long as there is one living
soul who responds to my blogs and posted articles, I will always travel the
environmental road.
Just my little thoughts…
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