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today is Blog Action Day.. the day to discuss the issues surrounding this huge topic on "Climate Change" and to spread the word on its significance..
to prepare for this day.. i did a lot of searching on the internet.. watching, listening, and reading about the climate change debate.. my personal conclusions are bleak.. the future is dark but my purpose here is not to put people down but to stir awareness..
i will not quote sources or give figures.. i will not speculate what may or may not happen in the future.. here i will only try to rouse one of our most primitive qualities.. our "common sense"..

some questions we need to ask ourselves first..
- is the Earth's climate changing? (who knows?)
- is the climate getting better or worse? (we can only imagine..)
- is the change caused by us humans? (if only i knew..)
- can we do anything significant enough to stop the change? (yes, no, maybe..)
- if we continue with our increasingly extravagant and wasteful lifestyles.. will climate change occur in the next 5 years? 50 years? 100 years?

what these questions have in common is that they really have no definite answers..

so the questions we really should be asking ourselves are..
- can we bear the consequences of climate changes?
- can we survive if the climate becomes unstable?
- can we tolerate the social-economic breakdown that results?
- will we have regrets due to our inaction against climate destabilization?
- can we afford to lose the life we are so comfortably living in now?
- and most important of all.. are we willing to risk it?

this is not a game play here.. this is not a stock market whereby all we stand to lose is money.. this is the future we are banking our life on.. and we may still be in it if and when it does occurs.. or our children/grandchildren could still be in it.. we really only have this one chance to play it right..

so perhaps nobody wants to lose all these stuff we treasure most.. but what can one do to make it better? what if we cannot stop the climate from becoming crazy? that does not mean we should simply give up and not do anything about it..
it is highly probable that climate change cannot be avoided.. but at the very least we may be able to push it back as far as we can.. at least until after our own lifetime.. or even our children's and grandchildren's lifetime..

i look at myself now blogging on the internet.. and think to myself that if one day climate change does destroy my home.. i may actually have to blog my thoughts by carving my entries on "How It All Ended" on some cave walls.. that is a very sad thought for me.. and if that is not depressing enough for you.. imagine the computers, handphones, televisions, playstations, cars, planes, beef burgers, cola, french fries, and so much more.. we could lose them all when we get caught by the climate storm..

what the human society needs now is for the people to do their own little part in trying to protect the balance which we are so happy with.. we just need to start out on the little things.. turn off the lights.. use less paper.. dim your TVs and monitors.. walk to the market.. take the stairs.. use less water.. eat less meat.. plant more greens.. reuse your stuff.. recycle stuff.. buy less.. take less.. use less.. waste less..

even if we gain nothing out of all these little conservation tactics.. at least we are left with a cleaner and greener environment to live in.. and if it does help in preventing climate change.. this little bit of self-sacrifice and conscientiousness would seem to be nothing as compared to the potential loss we face by incurring the force of nature..

simply ask oneself.. is it worth the risk by not attempting to curb climate change?

well.. it is better to die trying then to die crying.. i'm truly touched by this guy's efforts to spread the word.. kudos

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i attended a screening of "Meat The Truth".. which tells us about the detriments to Earth due to human's obsession with meat-eating.. this was the flyer given during the event..

this has come as a greater revelation to me because.. for more than a year now.. i have become a "free-willed vegetarian".. or "social meat-eater".. or "circumstantial carnivore" (whatever you may call it).. i had afore thought that energy and raw materials was the limiting factor to the prosperity of humankind on Earth.. now apparently the issue of food looks increasingly likely to bring upon our downfall..

compassion and cruelty of animals aside.. personal health concerns aside.. we must come to see that the production of meat is seriously taking its toll on our planet.. the rearing of livestock simply consumes unrealistically large amounts of resources, and generates so much pollution as compared to the cultivation of crops alone.. we may as well be drilling a hole through a century old oak tree just to extract a single toothpick from its core.. then leaving the oak to die..

the concept of food has evolved since the prehistoric era from "the need to eat" to "what to eat?".. so should we "eat to live" or "live to eat"?.. many people are even obsessed about food that lunch and dinner has become a permanent topic of debate..

therefore.. i weep for the future of mankind.. at least i know that if a famine does occur.. i wouldn't be the first to starve.. maybe i should start learning how to eat grass..

if anybody has any interest in "saving the planet" or going vegetarian.. please visit this website for a start..