Making Things Better, Not Just 'Less Bad'

The theme for the UBC IB WSC this year is "Making things better, not just 'less bad'", which I think is a very interesting topic to talk about. Why? In this century, we have used countless appliances and devices that impact negatively on the surroundings, in other words the earth. Looking at the earth's current condition, we can see that there is pollution everywhere that causes global warming thus the earth is getting warmer each day and extreme climate changes happening in every inch of the earth. Many organizations campaign about how we have to stop polluting the earth, recycle things and all other things that contribute to helping making things better. However sometimes, these things only make things 'less bad' as they do not change or improve anything negative that has happened in earlier years such as depleting natural resources, thinning of atmosphere, decreasing various animals populations and also not to forget abandoned un-recycled wastes around the world. That's why we need to think of ways and solutions to make things to actually get better, not only making it seems less bad. For example, rapid developments and research on sustainable things such as daily appliances and transportations can actually make things better as it helps people to improve their lifestyle and actually reduce their carbon emissions. 

Of course that's not enough, in my opinion, we also need to think of the solutions to 'fix' the negative things derived from our earlier conducts, such as the massive wastes across the world, endangered species and polluted environments. One of the example, I suppose, would be to research and develop equipments and devices to convert the wastes that are viewed as useless to something that can be used over and over again thus bringing benefits not only to the environment (less pollution) but also to humanity as we may get relatively cheap products (recycled) from things that we do not want anymore. 

In this conference, I am looking forward to talk about things like those I mentioned above to get a clearer understanding on what's happening in the world and how we, as the young generation, can help to tackle the problems.