Business In Society Q: After graduating TRU what is your responsibility to making to the world a better place? The raising of our children or the next generation is the area in which we have the most responsibility to not only perform but to improve upon previous generations efforts. It is also the area in which the future success of this endeavour most depends upon. It is in this next generation that we must instil the fundamental concepts of sustainability, living within your means, environmental protection, healthy lifestyle choices, the value of education and duty every citizen has in the formation of government. Studies have shown that what children see their parents do during their early developmental years; they are likely to do themselves in their own adult years. Parents must be the first teachers of their children, this task cannot not solely be placed on the shoulders of their teachers at school. Parents mould children into the men and women they will be for the rest of their lives. These same men and women go on to have children of their own which they in turn mould into the men and women they will be. It is a never ending cycle and that is why so much emphasis must be put on instilling important values and the passing of knowledge from one generation to the next. The protection of the environment is the second most important area that requires the urgent efforts of each and everyone one of us. Global warming is a phrase that many of us have come to know over the past decade. The statistics surrounding global warming are numerous and alarming to say the least. It is believed that global warming will cause the extinction of fifteen to thirty-five percent of all plant and animal species over the next 50 years. The war against global warming is a war that mu ...