‘It was a single step for man, but a giant leap for mankind”, were those historic words. But small steps mean smaller footprints in the context of global warming.
What we see depends on where we are. Many of us do not understand the real threat because of standing at the wrong place. It’s hard to know what we are looking at, until we step away and see the bigger picture.
Our planet has to be and admired, adored, desired, liked, enjoyed, played with, loved.
But we had used, destroyed, ravaged, and devastated her.
Will she be available for our children?
Our children’s children?
Nature provides inspiration, not only to biologists, but also to millions of naturalists, explorers, painters, photographers, writers, poets and musicians. After Aldus Huxley read Rachel Carlson’s “Silent Spring”( about the loss of songbirds due to DDT), his comment was that “we are losing half the subject matter of poetry”.
We do not know what our value systems will be in future, or what the value systems of our successors will be. Perhaps they will need vast quantities of some species that we now consider insignificant or even harmful. Nobody could have predicted that a bread mould be a source of antibiotics; that armadillos would be the only experimental animal to be infected by leprosy. So is the nature.
As Al Gore rightly claimed to us to think globally and act locally. Our generation is not the first generation to do damage to the planet, but we are the first to realize the extent of the problem. We are the one who really became aware of the fact that the human population is causing irreparable damage to the planet -to the air, water, soil, biological resources.
We still consider global warming as yet another topic for public speaking. But global warming is real. Glaciers melt; ozone hole gets big, Tigers, Pandas, Rhinos(list goes on) follows Dodo; pollution increase! On the whole the effects are drastic.
Our invisible and innumerable activities are questioning ourselves against survival?? We don’t have to wait until the day after tomorrow.
Now let’s take your turn;
Plant a tree, have our say for global warming,
Save earth and save ourselves,
Come what may, she’s always ours!!
We have to take a step back and a step up from where we are. The neighborhood
may look the same, but if we can see the entire planet and the damage that has been
done in the last one hundred years, the changes that have occurred will be very clear.
Global warming is not about point of view. It’s about survival.
