As the human race evolves, technology is developing and rapidly coming to our aid in solving most of our modern dilemmas. Dilemmas which cover a wide range of issues, from simple challenges such as improving the composition of paper-based products to the big global-impact issues of providing a higher standard of living and the state of our planet.
One of the key international subjects which regularly tops political agendas is Global Warming. But inspite of all the rhetoric there is generally minimal headway made in moving to resolve the issue, to the huge disappointment of the world's population.
Electioneering monopolises the debate in most cases and the serious environmental issue gets pushed into the background.
Further secondary issues are created and the main problem worsened by intransigence.
On every occasion the topic is discussed, vehement discussions ensue from politicians who swan around in large expensive cars, which hoover through the gas, and release massive volumes of smog into the air.
No one wants to stand up and be counted and spearhead the solution.
And there is actually no stimulus for them to do so. Conservative politics amply compensates them.Politics aside, the future, however, looks rosier with further discoveries being made in ways of detecting what causes ozone damage and pinpointing causes of global warming caused by humans.
Solutions range in scope from cleaner and gentler chemicals, to challenging the very foundations of "green" power.
A well-documented move is car-makers getting into the swing of helping save the planet by producing hybrid vehicles, which cause less damage to the environment, consume less fuel, oil and other toxic substances, and rate lower for emissions.
What we really need now is a major change in thinking by Western society, and widespread recognition of the problems we are facing in order to change this situation.
Manufacturers are being persuaded to change their approach by governments who are offering them incentives such as tax breaks to produce cleaner, "greener" items.
Finding ways to lower carbon emissions rates for cars is a must, and it is good to see that the tax incentives are gradually expanding to include other types of manufacturers, so that they too can experience similar benefits in return for changing to cleaner and more energy efficient methods of production.
But does all of this actually benefit all of us in the long run?
Are governments really looking after the interests of their citizens by offering these sweeteners to the big industrial conglomerates?
It is true that many people are all for encouraging programs that promote the use of cleaner power, and less environmentally hazardous chemicals, especially since less "green" methods and chemicals tend to be more costly.
But your average taxpayers are not managing to reap the benefits of trying to switch to a "greener" lifestyle when they examine their own budgets.
Electrical companies are starting to offer "green blocks" of power for sale to consumers, but these blocks are for purchase additional to the normal household power bill, and do not offer savings on the next months bill in exchange for buying the blocks.
Something is way out of balance here: major manufacturers are being co-erced with tax breaks and incentives to develop cleaner methods of operating, but millions of households are not getting that same encouragement.
A positive move to help global warming, would be to create a reward scheme to recognise the small but important things that every household could and often does, easily do such as save power at home.
A simple incentive scheme would lead to millions of watts of power being saved annually.
The amount of power needed world-wide would then be a fraction of current consumption rates, giving power companies the opportunity to participate in cleaning up large areas of industrial wasteland, instead of merely the handful of disused and derelict manufacturing areas they clean up currently.
It would be a fantastic idea to decontaminate smog-ridden towns, and reduce energy usage, so that resources from the earth are not burned relentlessly to supply energy we do not really need.
All the little things that we can do, when magnified globally, would help arrest the annual toll of destruction caused to the ozone layer, and would considerably slow the damage that we earthlings are causing to our very finest asset, our planet.
It is not solely the government or solely the people who should be landed with sorting out this environmental mess.
We all have the power to make individual changes; but it needs the concerted efforts of the whole human race to make the major transformations our planet so desperately craves.
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