Entry #14: Earth Carter 7/03/2011

After reading the Earth Charter, I found that although the idea behind it was positive, it was not as realistic as they thought it should've been. The idea behind the Earth Charter was that people will get along, there will be no descrimination, ect. Although certain issues such as these would make it a lot easier to live, there is no way that we can accomplish all of the issues it suggested, due to different people's viewes, and beliefs. It is quite unfourtunate, because if the Earth Charter could accomplish all of what it wanted to, our world would be near perfect. And there's no such thing as perfect. There would be no littering, everyone would care about the Earth, and that could eliminated some of the major problems that the world faces each day. I relate the ideas to a class discussion we had, on religion. Lets take religion as an example, a discussion on religion could go on for hours. Religion brings up a lot of debate, and usually people fall on one side of the fence or the other. People can say what they feel and others may feel the complete opposite. However, nobodys right or wrong, everyone just has different beliefs and opinions based on personal experience, and the way they were raised. Relating an issue such as religion, to the Earth Charter, I feel that there could be a few different ideas, both of which may be right, depending on who you ask, and that will lead to failure, since the Earth Charter gives only one main objective. I feel that although for communities as a whole, it may not be realistic, I think on an individual level, it would be a great concept for people to go off of, so that they can take each step into their own ideas, and personally become better people, in their own right, and without someone else having the ability to tell them that it is wrong, or that the Earth Charter meant something else. I think it is an excellent concept, but not one that we can totally rely on to better our World as a community.