| Picture this: While making your 75th call for the day, | | | | all over the world. Four, it will change the way our |
| or having your second helping of jjamppong from the | | | | winds work, hence, intensify the magnitude and force |
| vending machine, it suddenly gets dark. You try to | | | | of our monsoons, typhoons and hurricanes, hence, |
| check if the sun had suddenly gone "Total Eclipse". | | | | Hurricane Katrina, hence, La Nina and El Nino. Diseases |
| Instead, you see a 20-foot wall of water outside | | | | as S. A. R. S. and the Avian Flu have been brought |
| your building and it's about to engulf the entire | | | | about by the drastic and abnormal changes in the |
| metropolis. Could you manage to get to your car and | | | | climate. Migratory birds and insects find places with |
| make a run for it? Could you tip your wife or sister | | | | more favorable conditions, infiltrating countries that |
| or kids to go to the highest elevation they could | | | | did not have species which are carriers of the |
| find? Chances are, land tsunamis of this magnitude is | | | | diseases mentioned. The extinction of some species |
| something no disaster expert could ever be prepared | | | | in the animal and plant kingdom changes the general |
| for, not the NASA and definitely not our P. A. G. A. S. | | | | cycle of life by eradicating possible food source or |
| A. nor our N. D. C. C. When something as catastrophic | | | | symbiont. It's an endless cycle. We have to begin the |
| as this happens, there's nothing we could ever do. | | | | countdown to the dawning of a new Armageddon. It |
| The best thing we could ever hope for is that our | | | | is something which must have prompted the wiser |
| loved ones are as quick-thinking as we are and that | | | | like Winston Churchill to say: |
| we had said everything there is to be said to them. | | | | The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of |
| We can ask for God to intervene but then again, He | | | | soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming |
| would have more serious things at hand to deal with. | | | | to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of |
| To which can we attribute this grandfather of | | | | consequence. Needless to say, the harm which the |
| phenomenons? Humans. Technology. In a | | | | global warming will be causing does not exclude us. In |
| documentary entitled "An Inconvenient Truth", | | | | fact, we are the direct victims. Let me see: there is |
| former US Vice President Al Gore made it clear how | | | | skin cancer, heat stroke, shorter life expectancy, etc. |
| we have collectively contributed to the eventual | | | | The list continues. |
| destruction of our ONLY habitat and consequently of | | | | If this happens, would there even be enough time |
| our own existence. In the wake of technology and | | | | for preparations to flee, for time capsules to |
| mankind, we have willingly taken part in the murder | | | | preserve that which is still worth preserving? The |
| of our only refuge, of our only island in this vast sea | | | | possibilities are nil.Can we prevent this from blowing |
| of space. We have been apathetic witnesses to this | | | | into gargantuan proportions? Yes. The answer is in |
| crime of all time. Our collective efforts to invent, | | | | PREVENTION. The answers is in the UNDOING and |
| discover and exploit has taken its toll. | | | | REDOING of our mistakes of mistakes. |
| Carbon Dioxide, being a bi-product of our creation --- | | | | We have to start NOW! while there is time. While |
| the technology and the industry --- has "blanketed" | | | | there is a place to save. Be a part of the Climate |
| the entire planet. In the process, rays from the sun is | | | | Crisis Movement and help restore what must be |
| "allowed" to penetrate into our atmosphere. It would | | | | God's greatest gift to mankind and probably still give |
| have been a part of the natural process to let "little" | | | | back to our polar bears a place they used to set |
| amounts of sun's heat to get in PROVIDED this very | | | | foot on. |
| heat bounces back to space when already utilized. | | | | How do you help? |
| What this blanket of CO2 does is that it serves as a | | | | There are a few ways by which we simpletons can |
| one-way mirror. It allows the heat to enter but | | | | contribute to the slowing down of the global |
| prevents it from escaping back to space. Logically | | | | warming: |
| speaking, if we count the number of sun rises we | | | | 1. Buy energy-efficient appliances. |
| have had, multiply that to the amount of heat that | | | | 2. Use renewable energy. Instead of fossil fuels, use |
| "gets in" and "stays for good," voila! we have a giant | | | | alcohol fuels which do not emit CO2 when |
| micro-wave waiting to happen. | | | | combusted. |
| This abnormal heating up of the planet is what gave | | | | 3. Manage the domestic use of electricity. Save |
| rise to the concept of "global warming." So, while the | | | | energy. Use the airconditioning less. Walk to work. |
| planet temperature generally rises, the polar regions | | | | Use the stairs. |
| of the world are beginning to melt. It would be funny | | | | 4. Spread the news about global warming. |
| to sound too "science-cy" about this but this affects | | | | 5. Pray that it's not too late. |
| pretty much everything there is about our planet's | | | | 6. Watch the documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" |
| mechanism. For one, the amount of melted ice will | | | | and recommend it to friends and family. |
| increase our waters, raising sea level for up to 20 | | | | 7. Vote officials who would stand by their pledge to |
| feet high. Two, it will desalinate our oceans and seas. | | | | uphold giving quality life to mankind, the ecosystem |
| Three, it will change the major underwater currents | | | | included. |