The earthquake in Japan was the biggest in the country's history. In the last year, a dozen environmental disasters have occurred, from the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile to Hurricane Agatha in Central America devastating the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The elevated frequency of these types of phenomena in recent years is proved to be due to climate change. While it is hard to control or be prepared for such damaging natural occurrences, we can decide to change the way we live today and take fast and sweeping action to mitigate global warming and its subsequent destructive consequences. It is in our power to prevent man-made disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; and it’s up to us to decide when to stop violating the planet and its inhabitants to divert our energy and capacities to building a sustainable world. However, if our government keeps neglecting transformative climate change policy, if our representatives keep denying global warming, and if people continue to expect others to start overturning our modern society’s lifestyle, where are we headed?
A House subcommittee has voted to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gases and the Interior department has granted 37 new permits for oil wells in shallow water and one new deepwater permit. Here are the 2 articles that made me angry and write this post in reaction:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03This is unacceptable, heading in the wrong direction, and essentially due to the new Republican majority in Congress. I’d rather think that people have short-term memory loss, but the truth is that people just don’t care. Aggressive action needs to be taken and the Republicans are preventing that to the benefit of oil companies and corporations.
Climate change is real and very much here, people are being killed by our individualistic denial, and draining the planet’s resources is accelerating disaster in the environment and in communities, and simply not sustainable. How many more times are we going to passively shake our head and be angry for a genuine sole instant right after something happens, and then forget about it and resume our routine in our clearly flawed system? We’re all guilty, but now is the time to start caring a little more and change the powers that be around.
Nature is crying out to us that we need to change; the question is, how many more disasters are we willing to withstand before we are ready to listen?
D'accord Leah, tu as gagne la bataille du parquet. Nous avons donc decide de nous rallier a ta cause et Bamboo ce sera! Une petite contribution vers un mieux etre de notre chere planete.
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