RIO +20 to RIO +40 Actionable Environment Protection Pathways
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Bid Riggerz
Jun 18, 2012, 2:01:20 AM6/18/12
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Dear All,
As a student of the UOM, please allow me to sensitize you to one of the most important event taking place at the very moment and till Friday (22/06/2012): The Rio (+20 years) summit... The same Summit that took place while many of us were in primary school except translated 20 years later.
(To view the full blog with pictures/video: http://actionablepathways.blogspot.com/)
Mauritius is also represented: The Ministry and Minister of Environment as well the Mauritian delegation is also taking part at the very moment there to voice out the Mauritian position.
The reasons the RIO + 20 is important are that :
1) The plan of action decided there or fail to be decided there will define the pathway to the Environmental, Soicial and Economic sustainable development or not till RIO +40 (2032) when many of us will be nowhere far from retirement.
2) The current Economic crisis and increasing worldwide political instability are driving the focus on the priorities of sustainable development further. So much that the biggest countries are unlikely to even show up:
"The 1992 event was attended by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and green campaigners say this year's summit is so important it should attract his successor. In reality, President Barack Obama is unlikely to show. British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the entire European Parliament have also declined to turn up." Source:CNN [1]
This is catastrophic... It makes actions by ordinary citizens locally and globally even more crucial in the decisive times we are living. Coincidentally between our Primary School days and Pre-Retirement, the time to act is also NOW.
Indeed, our actions on our tiny piece of rock named Mauritius. But for Mauritians that believe in the 'Think globally, Act locally' motto and are aware that it is the individual water drops that make up the oceans I invite you to think about the current situation in Mauritius with regards to our Environment - the primary pillar of our sustainable development future:
Never before has our natural habitat been in such deplorable state 80+% of corals vanishing from the Ramsar site of Blue-Bay, the natural beach of Calodyne have been transformed into an artificial one killing all the organism living just beneath the bottom of the lagoon (benthic organism) in the Sand dragging and filtering process... Constructions are continuing on protected wetlands in Cap Malheureux, public domain is shinking in Gris-Gris and even the access to 'La Roche qui Pleure' will be privatized if the struggle of the inhabitants of these regions is lost and most last week a large scale pollution case in one of the only three Ramsar site of Mauritius - Mer Rouge Rivulet Estuary Bird Sanctuary at Terre Rouge where thousands of fishes were found dead - currently under investigation and suspected to originate from illegal industrial dumping.
What are the Actionable Environment Protection Pathways that are brought to us as citizens?
What I would ask you on that Monday morning would be to:
1) Bring your support to that citizen petition started this week-end: As small and silent as it may appear to be, the following petition has been set up to have an echo in the Prime Minister's ear as well as the Mauritian delegation to say that, we the people of Mauritius are demand proactive measures to protect our environment, demand properly addressing the concerns raised above in Cap-Malheureux, Calodyne, Gris-Gris, Mer Rouge and that examplary penal actions be taken and seen to be taken.
2) Push the above link to your contacts to achieve the number of 5000 convinced Mauritians citizens as the people's echo to the Mauritian delagation actually in Rio.
3) Subscribe for further updates either through the blog or by simply sending 'Subcribe Me' via return mail. The next blog will be to try bring about sensitization on shark fishing in Mauritius but for SPAMMING concerns only those who will have subscribed will receive future updates. Caution: Some images might seem crude, so sensitive persons might prefer not subscribe.
Thanking you for you precious Monday morning time,
Regards,
Bidriggez
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