Go Green?

In this session 3 of TWC class, I found some ideas which I never questioned before. As usual, prof provided us with some interesting topics and my peers presented great presentations about many fresh topics.

The first topic that prof brought up was to create a 'cyclical' business and industrial models in order to be sustainable in this fast-moving world. I totally agree with the opinion that our world is now becoming more and more exploited rather than preserved. What we should be doing now is thinking (hard) how to preserve our resources so our future generation will be able to enjoy the same resources we are enjoying currently.

Just like the EU has been doing for the past years, Asia, especially Singapore should be doing the similar thing as well in order to ensure the sustainability of our business and environment. However, I have to admit that we are now living in the world full of hypocrisy : we ought to think that the next generation, instead of our generation, is the generation that should be able to think of a breakthrough to this sustainability problem and this thinking cycle has been occurring for a long time. This kind of point of view hinders our world to become a more sustainable workplace.

In the next session, there was a quotation, which I have known before, that caught my eye. "Life is pretty simple : You do some stuff...The trick is the doing something else." - Tom Peters. What is doing something else? The something else is indeed a thin, however extremely important, line that differentiate between creative successful people and ordinary people. From the presentation of my peers, I found the "Green Sky Thinking" is quite interesting. As the pace of our world is going faster, people also move frequently. Tourism, working requirement, education pursuit, and many other reasons required people to travel far away from their home. Airplanes, which is the fastest with the least possibility of accident vehicles, are now being used more than ever. If only the concept of "Green Sky Thinking" is applied on every airlines, I believe that it will dramatically reduce the air pollution. However, I am still skeptical about this matter : it is the matter of priority, whether we put economical issue first or eco-friendly issue first.

Further possible discussion : 
What do you think Singapore should do? Should our small yet advanced country regulate the Green Sky Thinking? Should Singapore and its citizen put environmental sustainability as a top priority rather than economical issues? What can we do as students, as we embark on our education journey in Singapore?