Our Future Your Heritage

Musbri Bin Mohamed

Pengurus Besar
Yayasan PEKIDA Malaysia
( 457496V)

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Our Future Your Heritage

Our objective is to create awareness on the importance of

environment for our future generation.

Debate on Environment for 21 st Century

Professor Wilfred Beckerman
Landon, 2.6.1998

“So what is the most important thing we can

bequeath to the future generations? It is not
worrying about the supply of copper or the number
of species of beetle. The most important thing we
can bequeath to the future generation is a decent
society , in which the inevitable , never-ending
conflicts between human beings can be settled in
peace and tolerance.”

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"There is no way that we can replace our production of coal or use
alternative sources of energy to totally replace it. Because the US and
some Western governments don't abide by the Kyoto Protocol, they are
not willing to reduce their carbon emissions... we feel very annoyed
about that."

- Wen Shi hua,

Head of Mining Group in China 3
DESTRUCTION, DEPLETION AND DEGRADATION

76 percent of young people worry about

overuse of the Earth’s resources.

89 percent of teens said they would

switch brands to those associated with a
good cause.

By skipping one burger a week, a teen can

help save 40,629 gallons of water a year.
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Rio Earth Summit
The United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development (UNCED), also known as the "Earth Summit,"
was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. The Earth
Summit (held on the 20th anniversary of the first U.N.
Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972)
made history by bringing global attention to the
understanding that environment protection and natural
resource management were closely linked to economic and
social conditions, such as poverty. It recognized that social,
environmental, and economic needs must be met in a
balance with each other for sustainable outcomes in the long
term. It captured this concept in the term "sustainable
development" defined as ". . . development that meets the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs."

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Global sustainable developments starts
with local action. Whilst Agenda 21
addressees the pressing development and
environmental problems of today and aims
at presenting the future generation a life
able world without major environmental
problems, the participation and cooperation
of local authorities will be the determining
factor to achieve the goals of Agenda 21.
Local authorities play a vital role in
educating, mobilizing and responding to the
public to promote sustainable development.

In responding to the call, Local Agenda 21

(LA21) initiative becomes a vital
participatory and multi stakeholder process
for local authorities in addressing local
ecological, social and economical dimension
of development.

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A National Committee on Sustainable Forest
Management in Malaysia was formed in
early 1994 to formulate the Malaysian
criteria and indicators for sustainable forest
management (MC&I) required to ensure the
sustainable management, conservation and
development of Malaysia’s forest resources,
taking into account the ITTO Criteria and
Indicators for Sustainable Forest
Management.

An independent third party assessed the

forest management practices based on the
MC&I over three states in Peninsular
Malaysia in 1996, namely Pahang, Selangor
and Terengganu. As a result of the
assessment, audit statements were issued
attesting to the practices of sustainable
forest management in these three states.

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The move towards sustainability
requires top-level commitment and a
high level of engagement from all
stakeholders. Its success depends on
the provision of clear policy and
adequate resources, strenghthening
of the planning system and capacity
to make multi-sectoral and integrated
decisions. This initiative, albeit at the
initial stage, is significant in serving
as a living exempler of the praxis of
sustainability. It has the protential to
contribute to a sustainable world, not
only by its substantive physical
inputs and outputs, but by educating
the broader audience about what is
possible when there is commitment
from key bureaucrats as well as tacit
political will.

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As a community, we must be sustainable.
Several habits that sustainable community
should practice to be proactive and cultivate
are:

1) To be proactive and cultivate

interdependence
2) To begin with end in mind through
sustainable development action planning
3) To priorities the important
4) To first fully understand before acting
5) To think win-win-win and ensure that
sectors of society benefit
6) To synergies actions to improve all aspects
of human development
7) To continually improve

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Poorly managed tropical forest can
have disastrous effects over time,
greatly diminishing biodiversity:
• Eroded and unattractive landscapes
• Poor habitat results in fewer animals
and birds
• Sparse vegetation
• Polluted rivers and springs
• Disrupts local communities, cultural
sites and activities

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Contributing to conservation efforts can help protect
the assets that attract visitors and add to the value of
visitor experiences:

Clean tropical forest

environments make a
destination more competitive,
with unique flora and fauna

Participating in conservation
activities can enhance your
corporate reputation

Conservation is important for

the health and well being of
local communities

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It is quite wrong to think that environmentalists are just
those people who are crazy about pollution or the right to
public pathways. "Saving the Whale" might once have
been the pastime of those we looked upon as eccentric, but
those people have shown us that animals will disappear
from the earth if we don't take some care.

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DO YOU KNOW

When you eat or drink things stored in plastic, plastic is

incorporated into you.
S0 ?
It causes immune and enzyme disorders, hormonal
disruption leading to endocrinal disorders and even infertility and
is also considered as carcinogenic (cancer).
Not only human health, it dangerously effects other animal
life and alters the environmental (air,water and soil)sustainability
causing hazardous pollution.

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Plastic bags take between 15 to 1000 years to degrade.
The detoxins and other chemical pollutants released from
them are a Serious Threat to be Tackled.

Designing eco-friendly, biodegradable plastics is the need of

the hour. Though partially biodegradable plastics have been
developed and used, completely biodegradable plastics based on
renewable starch rather than petrochemicals have only recently been
developed and are in the early stages of commercialization.

Paper , Cloth, Jute, Cane, etc.,

are the most preferable but still
controversial

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What can we use for energy to replace

carbon based fuels?

Solar
Biofuels
Wind
Nuclear Power (may be necessary
whether we like it or not!)
Geothermal

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How can we stop the earth’s “blanket”
from getting us to warm?

• We must start putting less carbon dioxide into the air.

• Most the CO2 in the air will be around for 100 years.
• We need to burn less gasoline in our cars.
• Burn less coal (or burn it cleaner) for our electricity.
• Use less gas to heat our homes.
• Use less gas and electricity in our factories and on our
farms.

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What can the future hold for you children?

• More community spirit- we all must work

together to solve the global warming ( GW )
problem.

• A safer world with fewer enemies. GW can only

be solved with world cooperation.

• Less proverty in the world. Solving the world’s

GW problem cooperatively will require that
proverty be reduced.

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 “By acquiescing in an act that can cause suffering
to a living creature, who among us is not
diminished as a human being?”
- Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring

“By acquiescing in an act that can disrupt

and destroy delicate ecological balances,
who among us is not diminished as a
human being?”
- textbook paraphrase

No country can successfully protect its environment and

solve its environmental problems on its own. An
independent effort to resolve global problems is not
enough. Global problems require a global effort.

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"Treat the earth well. It was
not given to you by your
parents. It was loaned to you
by your children.“

- Ancient Proverb

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Muslims in the Quran to respect and revere the
environment when He says, "Greater indeed than
the creation of man is the creation of the heavens
and the earth." (40:57)

The Prophet Muhammad told his followers they

would be rewarded by God for taking care of the
Earth.

Another tradition of the Prophet Muhammad, or

hadith, quotes him as saying:

"If the Hour (Judgment Day) is about to be

established and one of you is holding a palm shoot,
let him take advantage of even one second before
the Hour is established to plant it."

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 I wish you always:

Air to breath,
Fire to warm you,
Water to drink and
The earth to live in

Concern for Today is Hope for Tomorrow!

In our modern age, especially in the West where religion
is becoming marginalized and made to seem unimportant,
many people are not very receptive when we talk about
God or religion. Maybe another way of approaching them
is to talk about creation. Maybe caring for our environment
is a new way in which we can make
da`wah and call others to Islam.

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