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Bettering the world, together.




All I keep seeing on social media these last few days is how we can make a better world together? what makes anyone think that it is even possible?
It's us who are ruining, more and more each year, the world itself. Some say why do we think we can fix it? I say there is no loss in trying. 

Unfortunately we live in a world where money is power and power is key to success, so they say. Where is this way of thinking getting us? In debt and compliant to others. It takes movements like terrorism in Europe or random shootings in the States for anyone to acknowledge the state the world is in. 

The younger generation, or what is know to some as generation Y or millennium generation, those born in the mid 80's and 90's, worry about what can be done to help the world as a whole. 

This is a worry that most generations before us didn't have, maybe because they weren't generally as privileged as we are, most of us grew up with all out fundamental needs met...but I ask myself why do people think we are worse off than those alive 50-100 years ago?

Average life expectancies are on the up while child mortality rates are going down, global poverty is on the decrease (fewer people in extreme poverty), global GDP is on the rise, global literacy rates/education/access to information is on the up, number of deaths due to war is on the decrease since WWII.

The only reason we think we are worse off than those before us is mainly down to the public media, it shows only the negatives going around, you don't generally see anything positive on the news, some might say but that's what the news is for. Sorry but 'news' isn't synonym of bad, news is information. 

Back to generations Y's main worry, we set out not only to help ourselves but also to help others, or at least we try to. But it makes me wonder, by focusing on helping and changing so much, is it just slowing us down when it comes to taking action? Why think about change when you can do something about it? Whether it is donating food, time or clothing. Things can be done, and it doesn't generally take a lot of effort. 

We can't, with our own hands, stop terrorism or someone shooting another, but we can help those who need it, we can volunteer, we can recycle, we can stop buying products that come from animal exploration, we can be help the old man with his shopping on the bus, we can be kinder, we can be greener, we can't however, stop people buying guns or governments making weapons. This doesn't mean we have to sit still and watch the human race ruin the most precious thing given to us, earth. 


Don't think. Do.

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