My brother's blog (The Environment)

On my 1st day in YUELI our teacher asked everyone to write something about their environment problems in their country. I was stuck with words.

After the class, I went back to my room asking myself questions how don't I know anything about our Saudi environment. It’s all about general information. Why haven't I ever read anything about our air, that it is polluted or I haven't ever talked or got in a dissection with any one of my friends about some things that are polluting our country?

My brother have a blog, he started writing 2 month ago. He is trying to put a new subject every week, the subjects are from around our community. We can see them every day without thinking about them. He is just giving his opinion on those subjects. And I'm so lucky the last 3 blogs he wrought were about WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT.

He started by saying that he never thought about the environment. He use to be one of the people who say “people who are thinking about the environment are Tree Huggers and they have nothing to do”.

What made him start thinking about this subject was his trip to China. He saw everything there colored gray even the people and the trees were grey colored of the highly pollution they were living in because of the huge boom in industries they are having. The second reason was a documentary produced by Al Gore. The documentary was about the changes that might be happening around the 50 next years or less.

He could not stop thinking about his kids and what will be happening that time.

We are facing a real danger if we didn't change our way of living. Ice is malting all over the north and South Pole, Greenland is falling down in a terrifying way and if it despaired a huge change will be happing on the earth. We might get in an Ice Age.

The whole world is starting to think about what is good for the universe except for us Saudis. All over the world we find thing recycled or a place to put the recycle dump in but we have no such thing.

One more thing, before couple of month ago there was The Global Green Day. We haven't seen anything that have been done or said about this subject in the Kingdom. While our government is always interested in any global event; such as, the Police week or things like that.

Even when the government is talking about smoking, they are not mentioning the environment; they are just talking about the health and what problems may be caused by smoking.

In the end our religion and our prophet said many things about this particular subject by the meaning of his saying ‘when you are in a war don't harm any trees that are in the your way’ and ‘if the end of days comes and your planting a tree don't stop and plant it’ and those two saying can give us a great motive to be friendly to the environment but.......

HOPE WE WILL BE BETTER SOON