For Our Own Sake, I Think We Should Care
Sunday, April 5, 2009
In my entire life, I’ve never been a constant donator for any organizations. And I mean any. Tonight, however, I think I made myself a bold move. Earlier tonight, I was on my way in to Kafe Pisa for a dinner with my friends. The second I stepped in the fence, a guy stopped me. To be honest, I thought he was one of Kafe Pisa’s employees and it took me a few seconds to realize that he’s from WWF, and that he’s trying to explain one of their programs.
The explanation took around 2-3 minutes. The guy asked me if I participated on the Earth Hour, and continued on explaining that every single year, Borneo lost an area of its forest with the equivalent size of two islands the size of Bali, we’re losing plants over there, the climate’s temperature is rising (which we can feel nowadays), as well as a few other concerns. Long story short, WWF needs IDR 76M each month to help nature conserve itself. And yes, they’re asking for a donation.
I have only a brief moment to decide, and I thought, why not? It would probably cost me some part of my monthly fuel and cellphone budget, but I guess in the long run, it wouldn’t hurt. I’ve always wanted to help people conserve nature, and I think helping WWF to do this would be a good decision.
See it this way. I’m just being realistic, we’re living in a God-forsaken and shit hole country with nobody seems to care on what’s going on with our own nature conservation, and if we want to make a difference, there are only a few options, with the first one being that, helping the United Nations do their bidding. Second, relying on our government or some other bogus organization to do this with the risk of you-know-what-will-happen-to-your-money. Third, we can help by directly being volunteers ourselves, but of course most of us wouldn’t have the time. Fourth, we can give some money to those moronic college students (I am still amazed with how they call themselves “intellectuals”) who seem to appear with cardboard boxes and asking for donations on every traffic light in Jakarta, every time there’s a disaster or whatever happened. And finally, fifth, we can invest on those idiotic and brainless legislative candidates so they get themselves elected, and hope that they will bring a difference with the environment. Heck, I suppose even monkeys can do their jobs better.
By all means, I don’t mean to brag, but I think if we’re going to make this work, it’s going to need all the help we can give them. I’ve made my choice, what’s yours?
gw jg donate kok….tp cuma sekali sih…hehe