The Connection Between Global Citizen and Human Welfare

Do we really understand why the world emerged concerning about the Environment issue that make some of us volunteering promotes about the important of sustainable development? The answer is the existing of the global citizen. The concept of global citizen first emerged in the 4th century among the Greek Cynics – who coined the term of cosmopolitan which the meaning is citizen of the world. In simple mean global citizen known as someone who are aware and understand the wider world and about the place their belong and stay. They tend to take an active role in their community by working together ensure the environment or planet more equal, fair and sustainable. Based on IDEAs, defined the Global citizenship as someone who respects and values diversity and recognizes our world is an increasingly complex web of connections and interdependences.

One of the acknowledge global citizen that public know very well is World Wide Fund and Greenpeace who are the main actor in environment system – that help the state or nation maintained their environment and balancing the economic activity that we called as Green Economic. The Global Citizen actively conserve about the important equality of all species that exist in the world system because of the interdependence among them. Donella Meadows said that, global citizens work together designing a sustainable of world – without the sustainable the human activity that designed by the world capitalist led the planet in horrible situation which impact to the human welfare and indirectly violence of human right in term of the right to a healthy environment.

As human being, we all demand to have a healthy environment while for the state of course the state tend to ensure their nation security are not threaten whether by the trans-boundary is activity or the domestic activities such as manufactures. That why, the debate about the right to an Adequate stepped up among the state and domestically. United Nation identify that everyone in the earth had the right to an adequate environment – considered a precondition for the realization of other human rights including right of life, food, health and an adequate standard of living. Besides, without the safe, clean and healthy environment, human right cannot enjoy because both are interconnected.

These shows that global citizen relates to human welfare, they play an active actor in world system to consistently promote about the important of human right respect among the community. As global community our common existence in this planet could be used also resolving conflict but sometimes, they become the root of the government to implement the conservation of environment. Indeed, secure the human welfare so that human can live in planet healthily. In Malaysia, we have non-governmental organization (NGOs) that been established by the individual that concern about the environment issue in Malaysia that some of them collaborate with the Ministry of natural resource and environment. Such as Malaysia Climate Change Group (MCCG) that launched in December 1992 that founding by Environment Protection Society (EPSM) and Centre for Environment, Technology and Development, Malaysia (CETDEM).

As conclusion, we do need the global citizen in world politic because they are the front liner who are talk about the environment and the connection of it with human well-being. Without their role, the world would destroy like what happened nowadays, regard the bad habit of people in Wuhan toward the wildlife habitats leading the covid-19 separating around the world and known as pandemic. Based on United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP), the diseases passed form animal to human are on the rise, as the world continues to see unprecedented destruction of wild habitats by human activity while The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that animal is the likely source of the 2019 coronavirus. That why important of Global Citizen to rise the awareness of the nation in world about the important of misused the wild habitat – it impacts the human welfare and well being due to zoonotic disease.

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