Opinion Paper: The Ones Who Walk Away

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The story entitled The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas presented a vague idea of an environment taken for granted since not all people have access to it. The story imprints and produces different meanings that depend on the perspective of every reader. Using this story as a foundation for finding an issue, this paper presents the idea of environmental issues influenced by human behavior. To elaborate, the child who was being neglected represents the environment that people who have been continuously inhabited too. While the city of Omelas represents the population of those, who neglect the importance of the environment to their daily lives. And the ones who felt the guilt and breaking free from the city of Omelas are the ones who are now fighting for the rights of conservation. These people are the advocates of environment conservation and animal rights which maintains the stability of the ecosystem.
Human Behaviour towards Environmental Problems
Opposition: Several organizations and foundations have continuously protected the environment that people are continuously gaining resources to. They are the ones who protect and advocate the rights of animals and their environment.
Supported by Masud & Kari, which stated that to promote the management system of conservation within the environment, several elements are needed to be considered. They also added that local communities that support conservation of the environment and its funds to function play a significant role in it.
Slant: Ironically, even though human beings are continuously fighting with their might to fight the different environmental problems and promote conservation, human beings are still the reason for its degradation. To elaborate, people are voicing their ideals of protecting the environment as it protects the people, yet such people also break it. Human behavior has been an excellent factor for conservation, but it has proven effective as an agent of environmental problems.
Supported by Schultz, which stated in his study the four challenges in people’s behavior for environmental problems. His first argument is that people who learn a large amount of education regarding safety, conservation, or health do not precisely state that they change their behavior. He also disclosed that motivation is the tool for behavior change, so generating information alone is not enough. Second is he presented that the cognitive thinking of a person sometimes has biases. That people think of environmental problems as not a priority, so people neglect the graveness of its continuous effects. The third is that people separate themselves from nature as is. Although some people are exception...