how to save the world

The other day I bought a book that's called "50 ways to save the world". The more I get to know about how unfair the world is, the angrier I get, and the more I wanna do something to change it! When I went to Tanzania and actually got to see the big differences in the world with my own eyes, they got wide open, and have stayed open since. Seeing it does something to you as a person, you change, and you'll never go back to being who you used to be. After having seen people starving because they don't have enough money to get the food they desperately need. Meeting a population where a whole generation is most likely to die of aids in the years to come because an American company has taken a patent on the aids medication, making them so expensive that the countries that need them the most can't afford them. Seeing the slum areas and the big differences in countries where a few people have all the capita in the country. Seeing what the economy led by the WTO, USA and the EU have affected the poorest countries in this world, making the poor even poorer and the rich richer then what is good for them. Seeing how big international companies privatized the most basic needs of people in development countries like schools, hospitals and even clean water!!! Knowing that Norway has earned millions by selling oil to the world and polluting our planet without the smallest attempt to clean up after what it has done. Knowing that it's the world riches countries that sits with the power in this world, the power to do what they want, the power to "abuse" the poorer countries, but also the power to change the situation in the world. It's the last fact that makes me so extremely angry, makes me see red and wants to harm all the people sitting with the power to change the world for the better! Because they don't! They don't do a thing!!!!! I can't understand how anyone can live with themselves knowing that they make money on other peoples misery! It beet's me...

But all of this makes me wanna do something, help changing the world for the better. The only problem is that I have no idea what little me can do to change the world, so I thought that buying this book could help me out. And actually it did=) According to the author, Annicken Vargel (she's Norwegian), the smallest things can change the world if only it's enough people doing it! Annicken have in her book listed 50 things that you can do to "save the world" as she says. She gives good explanation to why you should do each of these things, and what it may change. I thought i should list some of her suggestions, maybe someone else would start doing some of it too, maybe someone else would help me saving the world a bit before it's too late...

• shop less, go to a restaurant instead.
  
• give a part of your self, donate your organs when you die.
• recirculation of glass, plastic and paper
  
• turn of the light as you leave a room
• turn of the water while brushing your teeth
• buy feartrade products
  
• use the car as little as you can
• give away your old clothes instead of throwing them
• take care of one another, be a nice person
• don't carry guns and don't have them in your home
• volunteer
  
• go to www.thehungersite.com and help feed the worlds hungry people
• engage yourself in politics
• don't smoke
• eat less meat
• don't buy products made by mahogany and other wood coming from the rain forest
• plant a tree
• don't talk about dieting
• be a good example for others=)

I sincerely hope that more people will engage in what is going on our world, that more people will stand up and help fight injustice everywhere, that more people will realize that what they do actually makes a different! The society is made by women and men, and women and men can change it. We just have to stand together, stand up for our rights and let the world leader know when we think that something is done the wrong way!