The World Is My Country, All Mankind Are My Brethren, and to Do Good Is My Religion

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“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” (Paine) First of all I’d like to say, that this quote seems to be an appeal to people all over the world. I think that Thomas Paine asks people to be reasonable, to stop polluting the environment, to stop wars, to try to understand and find something interesting in other cultures, nations and to do good. So I’d like to start with the problem of pollution. We all live on one planet and our duty is to preserve it for other generations as clean as it possible. But people have always polluted their surroundings. With the development of crowded industrial cities which put huge amounts of pollutants into small areas, the problem has become more important. Automobiles and other new inventions make pollution steadily worse. Scientists and engineers can find the ways to reduce pollution from automobiles and factories. Government can pass the laws that would make enterprises take measures for reducing of pollution. Individuals and groups of people can work together to persuade enterprises to stop polluting activities. The next issue that needs to be discussed is the problem of wars. War is in our histories, in our monuments and on television. We are all too familiar with the images of mangled bodies, shattered houses and endless lines of refugees. War seems to be an inevitable part of the human condition. The total body count for the twentieth century from war, genocide and other human decisions (such as the purges of Hitler, Mao and Stalin) has been estimated at up to 226 million – the bloodiest century to date. Most strategies for preventing or arresting war have focused on political and diplomatic approaches. These can be extraordinarily helpful in preventing the onset of conflict. But despite all diplomatic and political efforts war still continues to break out. It can’t be

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