story of CaP and TraDE

This story is interesting as it highlights the way politicians deal with issues and how us individuals have to suffer for every decisions these politicians make. I don’t really look into politics or know much about politics because i believe it’s all lies, but watching this video just strengthened my perspective towards politics. These days the world revolves around making money, by ripping people off and as soon as people raise their voice the government just looks at ways to keep everyone’s mouth shut by putting a bandaid on the issue. This is very sad because we will get in trouble for it and the government on the other hand makes money from it. The cap and trade system would obviously not be effective for its introduced purpose, but at least the government is aware of all the pollutions we make and they are doing something about it, it’s better than nothing. It is simple to fix the problem if the government invests into it, but obviously the politicians don’t want to make a hole in their pockets do they?
As a designer I think the suggestion made in the video about paying back ecological dept is a good idea, but there’s all ready so much to pay for in this society i don’t think people can afford to pay anymore. There is already enough technology around that we can use to solve this problem, it’s not hard but to invest and act is hard. The government allows so much funding for such issues which is a shame because these issues should come first but in reality the politicians do not care about the rising concerns of pollution on planet earth.
It is sad that people don’t know about this but i think the most effective method of paying back to the environment for now is to educate people to take action themselves. Encourage them to understand the growing concerns of waste and consumption, then maybe things will start to change in an effective manner in this society.