A World We Dare to Imagine: Part 1

After reading the excerpt from The Blue Sweater, the ending line is what resonated with me: "We have only one world for all of us on earth, and the future really is ours to create, in a world we dare to imagine together." In order to make the world a better place, we must all first work to provide the fundamental needs of food, water, and shelter to all beings on earth. As one inhabiting a society where the majority of people have too much of these needs, I know it is often overlooked that a large part of the world struggles to provide these needs for themselves everyday. In my opinion, if we are all unanimously going to work together to make the future bright for our planet, we must all unanimously be able to take care of ourselves first.

Ultimately, the first step to making the world a better place and providing a brighter future for ourselves is creating long-term solutions for all human beings to be provided their basic needs. That being said, this is a very complex step. As mentioned earlier, a lot of us attain these needs through unsustainable measures. We need to reevaluate the ways in which we produce and consume energy, harvest food, and provide clean water.

A lot of ways in which we create and consume energy, such as utilizing fossil fuels, have proven to be harmful to our environment. Additionally, a lot of countries do not have the infrastructures to support these methods. With the emergence of wind and solar energy generators recently, we need to invest resources into improving these alternatives. We need to find ways to provide solar and wind energy globally in a convenient and economic manner. If we can switch to purely not only powering our homes - but also our cars and gadgets - with sustainable energy, we will vastly improve the we inhabit environment for the future.

Famine continues to persist as an issue in many areas of the world while in places like the United States we take many times our share. The ways in which we harvest our food is beginning to impact the physical environment we inhabit as well. We are seeing species going extinct and habitat food chains being exhausted all over the globe. Instead of investing in food markets which target keystone species in ecosystems, we must seek alternative methods globally. One controversial solution is increasing GMO crop production. Many people believe this "unnatural" way of producing food will cause problems. However, it has already proven to be almost no risk and cure famine in various locations. By focusing on GMO production, while also researching more sustainable food-producing practices, we need to have the goal of sustainably producing enough food for our entire globe.