CM: Lets aim for a greener tomorrow

KUCHING: Landscape architects must do their bit and the education curriculum must contain elements of environmental care in order to help create highly-developed environmental systems for the benefit of future generations.

Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Adenan Satem noted that countries with such systems were also those with successful economies and high standard of living.

Environment and landscape are among subjects that are very close to our hearts. It is valued all over the world for its ability to preserve and conserve the environment, develop human potential and to contribute to economic growth, he said at the opening of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Asia Pacific Congress 2014 here yesterday.

His text of speech was read out by Local Government and Community Development Minister Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh.

Adenan said landscape architects, in particular, had to play the dual functions of preparing the best living condition for the citizens of tomorrow and to help the nation preserve its environmental capital.

We have to move from the traditional and static structure of our environmental policy and guidelines to accommodate changes that will bring more dynamism to economic and environmental growth.

What needs to be looked urgently apart from all the provided policies is to include transforming the educational perspectives and envisioning the curriculum of the future to include care and concern for our living environment and our beloved Mother Nature.

Questions such as what kind of citizens are we hoping to produce, what kind of future will there be, what kind of work structure and what kind of economy and what kind of environment need to be posed, considered and discussed so that the growth of environmental economic-based strategies that will be adopted in the future are apt with the changing times.

Adenan said the output from this three-day congress, themed `A Greener Tomorrow, would be useful for policy makers, practitioners, industry players, environmentalists, landscape architects, planners, engineers and educationists to face the challenging tasks that lie ahead of them.

Lets equip ourselves with a passion for excellence and quality in our natural and built environment so that our Mother Nature and greens will be prepared for a future that is more secure for them all.

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CM: Lets aim for a greener tomorrow