We are proud to announce our inaugural conference uniting India and Pakistan for environmentalism. Since the environment is an issue that both countries face, it can be used to unite them by peacefully collaborating over similar goals. The initiative will be launched by a 6-day conference in Thailand. The conference will occur in summer 2018. It will bring together 20 selected Pakistanis and 20 Indians. The goal of the conference is to create a sustainable organization that fosters joint environmental activism. We are looking for one South Indian and one North Indian under 30 years to serve as Directors for the conference. We currently have 2 Pakistani Directors, Muhammad Ayaz and Tayyab Sha
The ocean is a resource. The ocean is a resource. The ocean is a resource. That is the sentence that I have heard over and over again. It seems to me that people specifically governmental actors only care about the ocean because it is simply a resource that is depleting. However, the ocean is so much more than that. It is the way of life for so many people. It is part of a greater cultural that some of us will never know but that does not diminish the meaning of that culture. That is one the biggest lessons I have learned this past week at the United Nations. The ocean is so much more to people than simply just the ocean. To me it me it seems the thought process is that we should get the oce
I just finished my fourth day at the UN conference. Over the past four days there has been a lot of talk of the problems that currently persist yet little to no discussion on what should be done. Most of the time there is rhetoric concerning the dire situation we are all in and while this is an important to know I would hope those attending this conference would know many of these facts already. I mean this in the sense that most if not all of the people at this conference are already aware of these problems and are looking for ways to now reverse them. That being said there are many projects around the world that are already working towards a solution. Yet, while at the conference there was
Today was my third day at the UN Ocean Conference. I think there is a major resource and group that is being overlooked here. The indigenous people. After having been to many, many, many sessions I have seen that the indigenous people are the ones being the most affected yet they are not the ones actually contributing to the problem. So, we the so called developed nations and we the so called more advanced are the ones who have created this unbelievable travesty upon the earth yet we are not the ones that have to experience the repercussions of our actions. Instead that unfortunate task is left to the indigenous people. But, what does that mean? It means that their way of life is forever alt
Fashion is not related to being covered anymore, to have a piece of material wrapped around you in order to hide your body, or to survive to the weather. Fashion is a lifestyle, with thousands of influencers and big brands covering the media, and slowly our lives, it is clear that this simple phenomenon changes our lives little by little. And it is this change that we need to focus on. Is it a good change or a bad change? For us, for our future, our health, and maybe I can go a little bit further and ask, for our planet? It seems a bit off at first to think about the fact that this new pair of jeans you bought may actually hurt the ones that worked for it (mentally and psychically), illegall
Today was my second day at the UN Ocean Conference. I am having very mixed feelings because I am very heartened and disheartened at the same time. I feel this way because I have found that the work of many of the NGOs and other grassroots organizations have been very inspiring and uplifting yet the work of the governments while impressive is rifled with compromises and more often than not do not propose solutions. Instead there is only more talk of what is being done in one small area of the world and the continual problems that arise. However, I think that there must be more dialogue on not only the problems at hand and what we are facing but there also must be conversation on the solutions
Today was my first day at the UN Ocean conference. Specifically this conference works toward fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 which looks towards the conservation of the oceans. I found that this conference is very eye opening in the sense that the ocean connects everyone in so many ways. During the opening remarks of the conference one person said it most perfectly in that the ocean knows no countries and knows no boundaries making it the responsibility of all mankind. I think this is such a true statement because the ocean contributes to so much of life from providing 50% of the world’s oxygen to being the basis of so much culture in the pacific rim and in so many other
