Years a go, my elementary school teacher told me about our beloved planet earth, “Earth is the most beautiful planet amongst the other planets in the solar system. It looks like a shining sapphire if seen from the space.” That was true, since earth has the most attractive colours amongst the others, with its blue ocean, its green plants, brown soil, with the white clouds covering them above. My mission was to be an astronaut and see my beloved planet earth from up above, to find the proof that it is looked like a sapphire ball floating through the space. That was a childhood dream that would never be accomplished.

Today, our beloved planet has turned to be a dusted sapphire because of the destructive human behaviours. It is undeniable that people have a big desire to fulfil their wants—it is no more their needs—according to a thing named lifestyle. This kind of life pattern occurred since the time could not be predicted; it may even stay in the world forever. For this reason, a work named design occurred to satisfy people with its functional, practical, and aesthetic elements. In every part of the world, design is being used with its different characters, but for the same goal: to make people more comfortable and satisfied. Most people are addicted to design and lifestyle, especially those who live in big cities with high tension activities.

Unfortunately, good design sometimes gives bad impacts. For example, the use of woods in a large amount to get natural effects in a room; the use of chemical ingredients for finishing materials may endanger people’s health and the environment; the chemical waste produced in the factories; the heat produced by the machineries; and so on. Even though people have started to reduce the use of natural woods, there are still many people who sell the woods illegally for their own profits. Indonesia is facing the worst deforestation compared to other countries in the world. The statistic told that about 300.000 m³ merbau woods are being sold illegally every month from Papua, mostly to China. For this reason, Asia has lost about 95% of their natural forests. Imagine how this situation takes part on global warming, since 10% of natural forests left in the world are placed in Indonesia.

The accelerated warming is related to human activities through the build up of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen dioxide. Because of the increasing temperature, there are some effects such as the changing climates, natural disasters, unpredictable weather, increasing atmospheric storms, increasing amounts of organisms causing diseases, and the melting of both North Pole and South Pole which causes the sea level increased. The scientists have even predicted that the ice on North Pole would be all melted by the summer 2040. If this happens, polar bears would no longer exist; Earth would receive 100% of the transmitted sun light—since 90% of it is reflected back to the space by the ice on Earth Poles; and the sea levels would be increased about 80 feet, which endangers coastal cities and villages. In this fearful condition, there are still some people who think it as an economical profit since they can sail straight from Europe to Japan via North Pole, if there is no ice left. How pathetic.