Last weekend I attended the 55th All Japan UNESCO conference in Okayama, where together we solved Japan's environmental problems. It's easy for everybody to do their part to help the environment. But it's surprising how many people don't do anything. So many people are environmentally unconscious -- to the point of passed out. It's as if people are waiting around for a miracle to happen.
The following is an outline of UNESCO's four-point action plan to save the environment, along with comments of my own, including specific miracles I think people are waiting for.
UNESCO plan No. 1: Clean up the air. As I sit here in my tiny office on my tiny island in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, a gentle dioxin breeze blows through my house. No one around here believes in dioxin, which is why so many people have their own private trash incinerators. Those who don't have their own incinerators burn their garbage on the beach. No one seems to care that we are poisoning each other and the world. But there is one lady who seems to be concerned about dioxin: Rather than burning her garbage, she tosses her bag of trash onto the beach and walks away.