The duty to be informed

To what extent do you think that it is your duty as a citizen to be 'informed'? Are you informed? How do you get to be informed about serious issues? To what extent do you think that you should leave the complicated decisions up to the others?

The main issue i feel that is needed to be raised from this question is the need in modern day society to be informed. I feel that modern day culture allows many people, especially the younger generation to feel bored by subjects such as science, politics and economics. As these are some of the hardest subjects to grasp they are also some of the most fundamental in the running of the country today. I dont feel it is our duty as such to be informed but i feel it is the duty of the government to inform, especially the younger generation on important issues that are often found tedious. Science, politics and economics all determine how successfully a country is run and can often be completley looked over due to its challenging concepts.

I think the younger generation are becoming more ignorant to the most important issues that the country and the world are facing. The typical youths of today are not informed well enough in lower schools about the issues that are going on in the world. Asking many teenagers if they regularly watched the news in this country is becoming more and more pointless by the day.

Climate change has been debated by many people, some say that it might not exist and that it is a government scam to get people to try and save the country money doing things such as recycling. However the current labour government do believe that climate change is happening but i also feel that many of the governments across the world including the U.K are not doing anywhere near enough to combat climate change.


I am informed by these serious issues mainly through the media. Watching the news frequently you see many stories that are science related dealing with important issues such as global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps. You also see many political debates on broadcasts such as 'question time'. And recently in the news during the countires economic downturn more focus is being brought on the economical side of the news.


As for leaving the important and complicated decisons to the others i feel will not solve the problem that is at the heart of the issue. Every member of the global society needs to be informed so that they could potentially be the members of the global community who could be making the decisions that could ultimately save the planet. The only real way that the world can deal with the problems is that everybody works together. Yes, i believe that for now the scientists should make the important decisions but then again that is there job and they specialise in different areas. However the younger generation of today are becoming less and less interested in scientific issues such as global warming, politics and the economical state of the country and this may lead to a shortage of people who are willing to dedicate their time to these issues in the future when we might be in need of the support most.


After all the idea of sustainable is meeting the needs of today without comprimising those of tomorrow, the ultimate goal should be to make the world aware of the problems that are to be faced in the future and to get more of the younger generation involved with the subjects that they might find uninteresting or uninspiring. If the scientists can meet the needs of today then im sure if the world worked together we could ensure that the needs of the future are met by the government informing people in the correct manner.