I've never been one to climb up a street light and yell out at the top of my lungs, "The end of the world is coming", but I'm about to inside my head.
A few years ago I was "somewhat" troubled by the tell tell signs of global warming reported on news outlets, in private periodicals, short films and documentaries and general discussion with family, friends & colleagues. However, in the past 3 - 4 years it has graduated from "somewhat" to "I really don't think we're going to make it".
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It has become unbearably apparent to me that there will be no end to global warming before it's too late. Now I'm not sure just how bad it may become, but in my completely uneducated opinion, I think, very, very bad.
While we, and others around the globe play "We have our rights" and then busily go about going through the motion to structure, form, acquire, salvage or sustain these highly intangible rights, we find ourselves consumed by our own agenda's, even by the ones that are good for us.
This isn't a bad thing all and all. It's what we have been doing for thousands of years and contributes such a large part of who we are and what we have become as people. Thoughts, desires, goals and the like are happening globally now. When one person in Japan likes a certain type of social order for instance, we all learn about it nearly instantly and then proceed to critique it to death.
We are really giving immense amounts of concentration toward these type of social issues, all over the globe.
In fact, I think we have become so involved in just the magnitude of information, that even the most mind blowing issues, coverage, pictures or stories are having less and less effect with each day. It has become commonplace to absorb so much culture shock that it's no longer even noticed, or daily lives have consumed us.
Watching this I had to ask my self a few questions with all I have been watching about global warming.
Could we really come together in a deep global crisis that threatens every life on the planet and not just human?
Could we give up our automobiles literally by tomorrow and park them on a semi-permanent basis until some form of none polluting fuel could be made for them?
Could we stop raising so many cattle so that they don't fart us out of existence?
Could we completely stop the use of CO2 base fuels within the next, let's say, year?
Could we stop the Ice caps from forming a self made water conveyor belt into the sea capable of dumping all of it within the next 15 or so years?
Can we stop the acid sea from forming?
Can we stop wildfires on every part of the globe?
Could we actually come together and give up those things that make our everyday life so easy to save ourselves and or children and our species and all life on the planet perhaps?
I'm afraid, at least in my eyes, that when that football game is about to be played, or Sex in the City is about to rerun, and those cold beers and nail polish bottles hit the tables, we'll sit and ask ourselves; Save the world, or enjoy this moment?
Enjoy the beers and pretty fingernails boys and girls, because I believe that will be our ultimate choice, before we realize, IT'S TOO LATE, if it's not already.
I think it will be indeed, a brutal next few decades.