The subject of our environment could hardly be more important to any of us at this time. Over the last few decades, we have seen the only home we have - our wonderful planet Earth - threatened by a raft of pollutants.

There's plastic in our oceans, sewage in our rivers, agricultural waste in our soil and waterways, toxins in our air and water.

Nuclear waste is even being dumped into the sea.

"Recycling" means - it appears - "out of sight, out of mind."

This debate - the second in a series - will continue to explore the wider issues of how we can live in a clean environment, giving light to a much-needed new approach in how we maintain the environment that we desire and which - as humans - we have a responsibility to caretake. That new approach will maintain our environment in a manner which supports health and harmony.

In addition, we not only have an ability, but an overwhelming duty to reorganise our systems, such that they not only support all life sustainably but do so with a degree of intelligence - which has been so lacking in our treatment of our environment to date. The proliferation of plastic packaging is but one example of poor practice, which defies all logic. It is neither sustainable nor healthy for our whole planet.

One of the three basic elements of life in addition to water and food is the air we breathe. Our air needs to be free of toxic chemicals that are a result of industrial pollution and excessive releases of carbon. It also needs to be free of chemicals sprayed purposely into the atmosphere, with unknown consequences for health, and free of harmful electromagnetic radiation.

There is no better time than now for a debate on all these issues to commence. Furthermore, a debate on the environment needs to involve the general public, the very people who are being potentially - and in some cases, definitely - harmed by such pollution.

The purpose of this debate is to gain and share as many different insights and viewpoints as is possible. These insights and viewpoints will come from thinkers outside the box, "green" entrepreneurs, environmental campaigners and importantly, from people like you and me - the people who live as part of, and care deeply about our earth, for all life including our own and our children's future.

Finally, one may think it's a strange thing to occur - the community coming together to debate something which is usually only in the domain of government. From many people's perspectives, however, the size of this pollution problem - which potentially now requires a more philosophical approach to solving the issues - is actually seen as too large a task for just 650 representative MPs to deal with alone.