Eco-campaign

If we have a look at the media it is striking how many future scenarios can be found among current movie releases. Robots, human settlement on other planets or different forms of apocalypses are common topics in books and TV nowadays.

All of them can be related to the simple fact that our planet is in danger.

Plenty of info graphics and documentaries about environmental pollution have been published throughout the past two centuries. And although some of them have a rather ominous character they all aim to wake us up and face the unpleasant facts.

A man-made disaster

Since the last century, our planet is exposed to dangers such as droughts, floods and the melting of ice caps. Water and soil are polluted and forests are cleared. Various species of animals and plants are imperilled by extinction.

Although the capitalist and industrial progress brought wealth to many it also brought poverty to many others. While we live our lives in comfort and safety, the price for our prosperity is often paid by others. Many times the products we use and even the food we eat were not produced locally, but in another part of the world - parts of the world where governments are not very concerned about environmental protection and human rights for the sake of a better economy.

The lonely polar bear and the 12-year old fabric worker in China are connected – even to us

It is commonly known that industrialization is the reason for extremely poor working conditions and environmental pollution. The long working hours and the lack of safety often lead to death or illness among the workers. Also they suffer from the dusts and fumes that are exhausted by factories, not to mention the industrial waste that is not properly disposed and thus polluting air and water.

Likewise these fumes lead directly to global warming and the melting of ice caps. Countries with a low sea level, such as the Netherlands or Bangladesh, are directly exposed to a yearly shrinking of land surface. The rising of the sea level might look marginal, but it means that the water is missing somewhere else: the Tibetan glaciers for example provide water to nearly a third of the world’s people.

Sooner or later, these changes will affect all of us. They do already. Modern diseases are spread among the world, claimed to be mainly man-made. Our bodies perceive unnatural substances on a daily basis that our metabolism might not process properly.

Facing these facts we might feel helpless. But change starts with an individual. We make everyday choices and these choices can later lead to a higher quality in living, a stable nature and a safer future.

You can start today!

Mirakologic is an eco-campaign that wants to make you aware of these facts and help you to become aware how much you can change on your own.

By giving tips and proposing recycling projects this campaign can help you to involve a higher awareness for your environment every day.

This quiz from WWF will show you how big your environmental footprint is and what you can do to decrease it step by step.

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