Time to Get on the Wagon
January 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Climate Change
“A study by the world’s leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought.” Moo ha ha ha.
An article published on the Guardian Unlimited website discusses the latest draft of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to the article, the report “shows the frequency of devastating storms - like the ones that battered Britain last week - will increase dramatically. Sea levels will rise over the century by around half a metre; snow will disappear from all but the highest mountains; deserts will spread; oceans become acidic, leading to the destruction of coral reefs and atolls; and deadly heatwaves will become more prevalent.” Well, at least the conclusions weren’t dramatic. Other facts brought to light include:
- 12 of the past 13 years were the warmest since records began
- ocean temperatures have risen at least three kilometres beneath the surface
- glaciers, snow cover and permafrost have decreased in both hemispheres
- sea levels are rising at the rate of almost 2mm a year
- cold days, nights and frost have become rarer while hot days, hot nights and heatwaves have become more frequent
These guys are so overreacting! The article concludes with this: ‘However, there is still hope, said Peter Cox of Exeter University. “We are like alcoholics who have got as far as admitting there is a problem. It is a start. Now we have got to start drying out - which means reducing our carbon output.”‘ Well put.
Regardless of the severity of global warming, the impact of humans on mother nature is clear. We consume too much, dispose of too much, waste too much and want too much. There’s nothing wrong with consumerism if it’s done responsibly. Shop online at websites that sell environmentally friendly products and raise your awareness of the impact your actions have on the environment. That’s the only way we’re going to avoid a terrible future, no matter how far off in the distance it is.
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One Response to “Time to Get on the Wagon”
By sushil on Jan 23, 2007
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.
The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT.
SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
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