Last Call for Change

The era of consumerism in line with technological advancement and industrialization has placed the most crucial environmental item on the agenda of global development. At all international forums and rostrums our current philosophy towards interaction between human beings and the environment is undergoing substantial criticism.

Over the last decade climate change appears to have become a real source of natural disasters. While at the end of the 1990s the problem was mostly scientific, abnormal heat in our country this summer, forest fires in Russia and the US, as well as frost and snow in Latin America, have become the last call to undertake serious ecological measures.

These latest developments resulted in the emergence of environmental management at all industries, like ecological expertise of new business projects, minimization of environmental risks, environment-friendly technologies, waste-free technologies engineering and their implementation. Is this enough to stop environmental pollution? Certainly, it is not. The huge ecological catastrophe, the recent one in the Gulf of Mexico, is proof of this statement. But probably the fundamental force for solving environmental problems is to change the mental perception towards the environment at personal, family, national and global levels.

Happy reading,
Olga Usenko