the environment
With the new addition to the family - Baby Adelia, plus loads of spare time now, I've took a step back and look at life from a third person's point of view (letting Jamie Scott and the Town play in the back ground).
It's really amazing how people - human beings - have developed the world. From little creatures who dwelled in caves, drawing what seems today as a five year old's perspective of the things around, to erecting towering sky-scrapers that loom over each and every single individual who stands before it's majestic facade.
We homosapiens have really triumphed in the evolution, but is development really all that matters? Each and everyday we strive to build the biggest, tallest, longest, shortest, smartest, technological, fastest (and many other adverbs) things around with the reason of making life easier, more convenient or other reasons. But this decision to develop at lightning speed has in fact ignited the development at a level that we do not want started - The End of the World.
Yes I know it sounds absurd that I'm talking about Global Warming and other topics here, but an advertisement on Discovery Channel has got me thinking of my own family. Quoting from a programme aired on Discovery Channel, Las Vegas's beautiful lighting and adornment uses up so much energy in a day that it is enough to power up an entire small city alone for a month.
Is that really necessary? Is making money really that important as compared to sustainable development? Is it really that important for each and every economy to be pink and robust with a strong competitive edge compared to others? Why is it that we're still putting the environment at a position that it seems as though we do not care?
The reason why Baby Adelia's gotten into my topic today is because I was wondering, what if twenty or maybe ten years down the road, the world would end. Would our later generations have to live through the mess that we have created? Would we, the generation of today, live to see the end of the world?
I'm not an environmentalist, but the conditions of today's living has given me a scare. The way some industries generate pollution is really damaging to mother earth. But yet there's no way we can so anything about it. Unless (it's a really absurd and crazy thought but...) the entire world was one body, ran under one government (Pro-environment that is), like a communist country. Only that way, can we ensure that everyone's catered for.
Well, that's only a thought! Maybe one day, where the world's really at it's end, would such a thing happen. But for now, I'll just have to do my part and save what little I can of the environment.
It's really amazing how people - human beings - have developed the world. From little creatures who dwelled in caves, drawing what seems today as a five year old's perspective of the things around, to erecting towering sky-scrapers that loom over each and every single individual who stands before it's majestic facade.
We homosapiens have really triumphed in the evolution, but is development really all that matters? Each and everyday we strive to build the biggest, tallest, longest, shortest, smartest, technological, fastest (and many other adverbs) things around with the reason of making life easier, more convenient or other reasons. But this decision to develop at lightning speed has in fact ignited the development at a level that we do not want started - The End of the World.
Yes I know it sounds absurd that I'm talking about Global Warming and other topics here, but an advertisement on Discovery Channel has got me thinking of my own family. Quoting from a programme aired on Discovery Channel, Las Vegas's beautiful lighting and adornment uses up so much energy in a day that it is enough to power up an entire small city alone for a month.
Is that really necessary? Is making money really that important as compared to sustainable development? Is it really that important for each and every economy to be pink and robust with a strong competitive edge compared to others? Why is it that we're still putting the environment at a position that it seems as though we do not care?
The reason why Baby Adelia's gotten into my topic today is because I was wondering, what if twenty or maybe ten years down the road, the world would end. Would our later generations have to live through the mess that we have created? Would we, the generation of today, live to see the end of the world?
I'm not an environmentalist, but the conditions of today's living has given me a scare. The way some industries generate pollution is really damaging to mother earth. But yet there's no way we can so anything about it. Unless (it's a really absurd and crazy thought but...) the entire world was one body, ran under one government (Pro-environment that is), like a communist country. Only that way, can we ensure that everyone's catered for.
Well, that's only a thought! Maybe one day, where the world's really at it's end, would such a thing happen. But for now, I'll just have to do my part and save what little I can of the environment.
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