Environmental Awareness

We all are expected to have concern about the environment, the world we live at this moment as this is the legacy of our children, but in reality there are still many people who haven’t aware of the meaning of the environment itself. Consequently, those who have the awareness can work alone, within group or side by side with law enforcement to take action, to increase public awareness about the important role played by the environment. Real action can be done through education, information and counseling. There is a small team in New York City’s department of environmental conservation; it consists of twenty officers, called the “Green Police.” The green police implement environmental rules and issue citations to environmental violators.

In some countries, in order to improve the environmental awareness, they even provide stimulus or motivation for the active role of the community to maintain the environment. As mentioned earlier, to increase environmental awareness can be done through various ways; it can be started by educating people in the sense of giving direction to the system of values and attitudes to be able to maintain a balance between the fulfillment of personal interests, social interests, and natural interests. This is what Green Police has been doing. We can also directly and actively playing our part such as field trips in the wild by bringing our children, showing them how wonderful is when the nature is still in harmonious environment, all this is to educate our children the responsibilities and obligations, so they can gain the awareness since young age.