Cultivating our World: Visions for a Better Future

Cultivating our World: Visions for a Better Future
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Cultivating our World: Visions for a Better Future
A better world is a world where the environment is safe and healthy for everybody, and corporate organizations observe their duty to do the right thing always. This paper discusses the main challenging issues of today and the way I could nurture my capabilities to take on greater responsibility for tackling major issues of concern to me. In addition, the paper outlines how I envision a better world and describes the way in which this world would be better.
The world today faces a wide array of challenging issues ranging from economic and social issues like extreme poverty, economic inequity, gross inequality between the poor and the rich and human trafficking. The world also faces various environmental issues such as environmental pollution, environmental exploitation and degradation, global warming and climate change, as well as lack of respect of local cultures by large multinational companies. Exploitation and degradation of the environment exhausts the resources that provide livelihood to local communities. In addition, it undoes the social structures that have shaped cultural identity as well as their sense of community and life for a long time (Todd, 2017). It is of note that in different regions globally, indigenous and local populations are being pressured to leave their homelands for the purpose of making room for mining or agricultural projects carried out devoid of regard for the degradation of culture and nature. Pope Francis discussed the ecology of everyday life within our neighbourhoods, places of work, homes and rooms (Pope Francis, 2015). People try to shape their environment in order to express their identity. Even so, when the environment is chaotic, disorderly or filled with unsightliness and noise, such overestimation makes it hard for people to find themselves integrated and contented.
Other challenging issues include those that pertain to environmental justice and injustice including locating noisy airports, transfer stations, railroad tracks, utility transformers, heavy industrial facilities, and landfills in low-income communities. Even so, such environmental issues cannot be separated from questions of production and consumption. This is in line with the concept of integral ecology, which is an essential concept in the 4th chapter of Laudato Si’; the encyclical on the environment conceptualized by Pope Francis. The notion of integral ecology stems from Pope Francis’ understanding that everything is related closely and that current problems necessitate a vision that can consider all aspects of the global crisis (Pope Francis, 2015).
Environmental justice, as Todd (2017) pointed out, is a significant aspect of the struggle of improving and maintaining a healthful and clean environment, particularly for communities that have traditionally played, worked and resided close to the pollution sources. Environmental justice denotes that both the environmental amenities such as clean air, clean water, scenic views and parks, and potential environmental hazards are distributed evenly all through both wealthy and poor communities. U...