Emotional engagement is important, yet it can be tricky. In order to be successful, an individual must find a balance between using your emotions as your motivation to fuel you actions and having your emotions cloud or judgment, creating bias and altering your actions.
Outsourcing is an extremely controversial issue. However, I believe that we need outsourcing and I do not see a better alternative. We all need the items created in third world countries, especially now because practically everything is made in third world countries. When I go to school everyday, everything I wear was probably produced outside of the United States. The only reason for this is because it is simply cheaper, and I don’t see anything wrong with this. Yes, in certain scenarios like Nike, the conditions are horrible and unacceptable, but those are most likely few and far between. Efforts should be made to create better living conditions for these people, but the fact remains, the benefits we get from outsourcing will never lead us to want to stop it. No one wants to be paying probably fifty percent more than what they are paying now if items were to be made domestically.
Something I found intriguing was the idea that world leaders recognized the importance of voluntary action. This is ridiculous that this is coming out now, but even more upsetting is how about the importance of mandating certain actions. Why not increase the deposit laws a little? People buy these sodas and do not recycle them half the time. Why not make the deposit a significant amount of money to force the consumers to want to recycle their bottles? If they decide the increase in price is too much to pay for soda, then that is good as well because it will help reduce obesity. These people could then drink water instead of sodas and other sugary beverages. Obviously the beverage companies will not agree to an increase in the deposit laws because sales will decline. The government should give these companies significant tax breaks to convince them to allow it. Another possible idea is just making it a law to recycle bottles, punishable by jail time or hefty fines. This is an example of mandatory action which would be much more effective than voluntary, the only problem being it is much less realistic.
Voluntary action is nice in theory, but few actually take action. In order for voluntary action to be effective, you need masses of people to contribute and take action. You need organized groups and recruitment. A big problem is that many working people do not have the time or at least think they do not have the time to help out. But guess what, if you do not help out, the world is going to go to shit and you won’t have that time anyway. I should not be talking because I am one of those people that understands the problems but does nothing to help. I need to change my attitude. We all do.
