Text 5 Climate change issue shows how little we care about our planet

If there's one thing that clearly shows our lack of care and love for our planet then this is no doubt climate change issue. Despite the scientific warnings that climate change impact is approaching a tipping point where changes will become irreversible (eventually leading to disaster of gigantic proportions) world is still nowhere near agreeing on new climate deal, and world leaders are still more worried about industry and finance than our planet's health. The latest reports suggest that political games and individual interests are still too big obstacle for one major global agreement such as new climate deal. Every country looks how to protect its own interests, and all of them seem to be blind when looking at the big picture. In these circumstances new (effective) climate deal is impossible, and Copenhagen may not turn to be the last huge blow when it comes to climate change deal like many environmentalists hoped it would be.

As long as there is such a discrepancy between agreements made by world leaders for reductions in emissions by 2050 needed for the world to be on a 2°C path and the comparatively weak targets pledged for 2020 we can forget about the effectiveness of new climate deal. The scientists have calculated that is we continue this current path we can expect a temperature increase of 3.5°C by the end of this century, and such increase would cause a real disaster in many parts of our planet.

What can we expect from the next round of climate talks in Bonn? Given the current political situation we might as well forget some meaningful action on global level. The most recent political analysis suggests that leading politicians still believe that costs of significantly cutting emissions would hurt our industries too much. In other words world leaders still prefer to sacrifice our planet's health to keep industry happy. In world where everything is measured through money this really doesn't come as a big surprise. It just shows one sad reality we live in.

Text 6 Rapid human population growth spells more trouble for environment

Different environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, deforestation and biodiversity loss have one thing in common, namely humans as the main reason behind their creation. The more people means sadly more environmental issues and the latest UN report says that world population could reach 11 billion by the end of the century.

World is yet to unite on solving major environmental issues, and things will become harder with more people involved. The growth of human population is sadly the topic that has gone off the world's agenda in favor of other major global issues, such as climate and poverty, despite more than obvious interconnection between these issues.

The factor of better education is vital in this whole equation. Better education leads to better family planning, and this is something that should become priority among the developing countries. Education is not only key to family planning but to global environmental protection because educated people are more likely to comprehend the magnitude of current environmental issues.

Of course, tackling poverty and hunger still remains a necessity. It is easy to understand why poor and hungry people care very little for environment surrounding them. When your only concern is how to survive the day the last thing you worry is whether the air you breathe and water you drink is clean and is climate really changing or not.

Global population reached 7 billion in 2011. With new, improved policies there could be enough resources for all of us, which would no doubt lead to better environmental condition of our entire planet. However, seeking for global justice in this world of ours is nothing but an utopia, a sweet dream that ceases to exist once you open your eyes.

The environmental issues are just one of the many examples proving that our society still needs major upgrade before fulfilling the role of guardians on this planet. So far, it looks like our mission was more destroy, rather than guard. We keep forgetting that Earth is still our only home.