Oct 07, 2006 19:20
About a year ago I wrote, in the month of November, that the temperature was in the mid-to high 60's. At the time, I attributed it, possibly, to global warming. Since then, Al Gore produced the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", an outline of what global warming is, and a portrayal of its potential effects in the future unless humans today begin to take action against it. Over this past summer, record temperatures were reached, and in mid-summer, when leaves and plants should still be green and ripe with beauty, they were beginning to dry and skip the 'changing of the leaves' process that so many northerns appreciate.
It is an unfortunate and (to reverberate the words of Gore) an inconvenient truth that the human population over the past decade has increasingly damaged the great earth that was given to us to live upon. There has also been a dramatic increase in lack of respect for humanity, and for the natural course of human events.
To echo the great words of Thomas Jefferson, "In the course of human events..." - the course is single-handedly decided by the human population. And we have thus far chosen a poor course to guide us on the roads ahead. It is the responibility, and a must, of the younger generations to begin to look at how to change our living habits and ways so that the future of human-kind may be preserved. I only wish that the generations of ours past had done this.
With the evolution of man came the evolution of technology, thus creating the burning of fossil fuels and the greenhouse effect. Research what you can do to help decrease this effect, and save this beautiful land.
In the meantime, attempt to identify with the following political, and for me, personal, statement: WAR IS OVER (if you want it)