The Action of Environmental Awareness to Increase Public Participation in Supporting The Blue Economy

 By

Endang Sriningsih

Airlangga University

Abstract

Two decades ago, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Ecology and the Global Forum on Poverty, Dhaka, 22-24 July 1993, said: "Our world is on the edge of destruction because of human activity. Around the planet, natural resources plundered too far." A variety of ways solving the problems of the environmental crisis that is now engulfing the entire world.Various attempts have been made since the outbreak of the issue of global environment in the 1960s. Current activity is Asia Conference on Ocean, Food Security and Blue Growth (ACOFB) in Bali last June 2013. Sonny Keraf (2002) said: "...... Environmental issues are moral issues, issues perspective or understanding of the nature of the error that led to the problem behavior". According to Arne Naes, today's environmental crisis can only be solved by changing the point of view of nature and human behavior, including the pattern of our lives are responsible for instilling environmental ethic to future generations who would utilize and take on the responsibility to manage the environment. A fundamental shift in perspective and radical needed as a pattern or a new lifestyle that is not only about individuals, but also society as a whole culture. Through education, and social movements, which synergized with various parties such as the government sector and the economic sector, would grow the environment ethical behavior and habits, to develop the Blue Economy in Indonesia.

Abstract

Two decades ago, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Ecology and the Global Forum on Poverty, Dhaka, 22-24 July 1993, said: "Our world is on the edge of destruction because of human activity. Around the planet, natural resources plundered too far." A variety of ways solving the problems of the environmental crisis that is now engulfing the entire world.Various attempts have been made since the outbreak of the issue of global environment in the 1960s. Current activity is Asia Conference on Ocean, Food Security and Blue Growth (ACOFB) in Bali last June 2013. Sonny Keraf (2002) said: "...... Environmental issues are moral issues, issues perspective or understanding of the nature of the error that led to the problem behavior". According to Arne Naes, today's environmental crisis can only be solved by changing the point of view of nature and human behavior, including the pattern of our lives are responsible for instilling environmental ethic to future generations who would utilize and take on the responsibility to manage the environment. A fundamental shift in perspective and radical needed as a pattern or a new lifestyle that is not only about individuals, but also society as a whole culture. Through education, and social movements, which synergized with various parties such as the government sector and the economic sector, would grow the environment ethical behavior and habits, to develop the Blue Economy in Indonesia.

Keywords: social movement, social habits, blue economy