Vision: Keep a look out for other challenges or new solutions all the time.

Comment by Yakhyo Kayumov on March 4, 2010 at 6:35am

I know what you mean, but I would like to say that when you divide your vision to 'Western' and 'Eastern' you unconsciously may limit your view point. I agree about Soviet rule and I believe it has very huge impact even in today's lives. However, today the East - Vostok , today is totally different. Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Singapore, Indonesia. Malaysia and so on, these countries are already developed their own way of thinking and adapting to the problems, so each country and even each person should have own vision and of course gradually expand it for better ends. In brief, I mean that I appreciate your challenge to search for alternatives, and I want you to find not solutions to the problem first but the your own vision of it. I think it is important how do we understand a problem, how do we see it in reality, so after clear definition of problem we can search as you said better solutions not same solution we used yesterday.

Comment by Tursynbayeva Sholpan on March 4, 2010 at 10:23am

yes, you are right Yahkhyo, east is different nowadays. My vision is there are always better ways and decisions if you want it. Admit it that most changes in East countries such as Singapore and Japan were due to western graduates of that countries. But for sure, I do not generalize that all Eastern thing is nonsense and West is development, nowadays these countries have best education system and best technology. They just were able to understand that there are something to take from West and something to develop on their own.

Comment by Nad on March 4, 2010 at 11:42am

Good point Sholpan, i really liked what you wrote especially because it gives personal opinions but leave a lot of spots to the readers to ponder about what you're meaning. What I think is just that now the problem in the occidental countries is to determine what is the right solution and especially to be ready to pay the price to apply the solution. Of course we are talking about the world health and future and as we know, we already got at the point where if we wanna save our future we need to understand that many things in the world wide enviroment politic have to change and as consequence the world equilibrium and assect might change because we all know how much enviroment politics of the different nations are strongly related to economical politics. So (and this is my suggestion as mentor), reading in your profile that you have good diplomatic skills and some exepriences, try to imagine how you would convince an industrialized country (if you want you might also pick the name of an existing country) to sign in the Kyoto Treat and to reduce its CO2 emissions (for sure to do it they would need to reduce some industrial activity, reviewing country laws about enviroment and so on...).

Comment by Tursynbayeva Sholpan on March 4, 2010 at 6:15pm

Thanks Nad,
Yes, that's really important issue you raised. The US is consuming much more products than other parts of the world, but still has not signed Kyoto Treat. It is unfair towards other countries that US making more than half pollution and other nations need to suffer from it. It is already time for them to understand that not much time left for not taking any measures to save the Earth. Melting glaciers, frequent tsunamis and ice breaking in Arctic are serious processes happening due to global warming. I think the problem for not signing Kyoto is tightly because of interests of some powers, such as oil monsters, who will be hardly affected if treat would come into force in US. The only solution I can see for the problem is raising awareness of environmental problems among common people. As politicians will not do anything, initiative and requirement for signing treat should come from bottom. The problem is many people do not about the environmental problems very much, and even they know they do not care about it, as disasters seem to happen in far future. However, it is wrong, because bad things already happening in the world. My suggestion:
Every day short movies, doc**entary films and ads about environmental problems and how to decrease them should be shown on TVs, radios and newspapers, so that people start to think about it seriously. And ultimately, they will demand from Government to apply measures to save the world, Earth, for their children.
We know that Starbucks and McDonalds became famous for ads, marketing and nowadays worldwide known brands, why not to do the same for environmental problems. Put posters, give information in high schools, kindergartens and TVs, then it will stay in people's mind and people will do something in order to make their own small contribution to save the world.

Comment by Marcus Tracy on March 4, 2010 at 9:20pm

I agree with you that it seems to me that education about these issues has led to a great misunderstanding about what is important. America wants to be seen as a leader in the global environment but it tends to seem more and more that many of my fellow Americans have misinterpreted this to mean that other nations should FOLLOW US. (No punn intended)
It is frustrating for me to see people in my country take such offense to the idea that we aren't perfect. I want to attribute this to a fear that if our country is not perfect in every way that the uncertainty would destroy a lot of citizens who are willing to blindly follow, because it is easier.
I'd like to compare it a child finding out that their parents are some indestructible, infallible, super beings. This can shake the foundations of a child at first, but eventually the growth they experience in maturing through this is heavily defines who they are. It is a sign of the transference of responsibility. I believe that if you know something that you participate in is broken, then you share the responsibility to fix it. I think this scares many people in many countries that have enough to worry about with just putting food on the table, but I agree that education about options and solutions to these problems could lessen this strain and maybe give people more confidence in making a change.

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