Oh, nice. I’m blogging regularly again. I gave Marc a motivation to blog, and now I think I’ve given myself one too. No, I’m not depriving myself of love-making if I don’t blog (unlike him hehe). But I have just found another pretty good reason to blog on a regular basis.
I’m starting to get these nasty thoughts of Doomsday.
For those of you who have already met me personally, you know I can be a little ray of sunshine when I wanted to be (or a nasty, swearing biatch when not in the mood). I live each day as it comes—thinking about depressing thoughts like the End of the World just isn’t my cup of tea.
But lately, I seem to notice more and more that I haven’t been using much of my sundresses. And it’s just a few weeks before summer.
The weather is freaking, that’s what it is. I don’t know about you, but the weather is just way too weird. It’s February already, and it’s freaking cold! Usually by now, I’d be frequently in a bad mood because of the heat. But I’m not. I’m still shivering under blankets like as if it’s December.
It doesn’t help either that my Dad just bought a DVD of The Day After Tomorrow and lent it to me.
Miriam College (formerly Maryknoll College), where I took grade school and high school, was a breeding ground for environmentalists. Maybe that’s where I got my love for animals, who knows? Anyway, that school was actually all about saving the environment during my time. So I learned a lot about Global Warming.
Global Warming (and the nasty effects it had as shown in the movie) used to be something I consider an event that would only happen in the very distant future. I just never really thought its effects could start this soon. And in my lifetime.
I’m getting a bit scared. Really. But for some reason, knowing this has somehow given me more reason to make the most out of my life. I guess that pretty much happens when you feel like the End’s getting near.
“…After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.â€
(Professor Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, page 297)
We are freezing our behinds over here right now and could use some warmth.
I’m a Maryknoller too 🙂 therefore concerned of the environment. But I’d rather worry about things I can control and do things that can help save Mother Earth(recycle, separate bio-degradable from non-bio degradable, support organic products, etc).
You’re a Maryknoller too? Coolness! 😀 Even my mom was one, but I don’t think the environmentalist thingie was implemented during their time 😛
Hmm..I don’t think the world is about to end any time soon. The amount of abuse we inflict on the environment obviously isn’t good, but I heard a few years ago that the biggest influence on our climate in recent times is sunspot activity. There are huge storms raging on the surface of the sun, and it’s messing with our climate – seasons out of kilter etc.
@colin: I sure hope you’re right… I certainly don’t want to be alive to see the end of the world 😛
There was an interesting documentary on Channel 4 in the UK last Thursday. We are all having the wool pulled over our eyes.
CO2 is not the cause of global warming but a consequence of it. As the temperature rises, the oceans release CO2 into the atmosphere. When the temperature cools, the oceans absorb back CO2.
The amount of CO2 we generate by burning fuel is insignificant compared to the amount released by the oceans.
The whole ‘greenhouse’ myth was started by Margaret Thatcher. In the 80s there was a miners strike in the UK. Thatcher wanted to break the miners. She went to the scientists and said “There’s money on the table if you say we are damaging the environment by burning fossil fuels and recommend that we use more nuclear power…”. And that was the beginning of the whole sham.
Nowadays, governments all over the world are investing huge amounts of money researching the effects of industry on global warming. Scientists have no incentive to tell the truth, which is that global warming is totally beyond our control.
It means the ‘developed’ nations can justify their attempts at preventing the developing nations from using fuel (on the grounds that it would have a disastrous effect on the environment). In reality, they are protecting their own economic interests.
So what is causing global warming? The sun. It is part of a natural cycle. The world isn’t going to end. Things will cool down again.
In the UK we are being inflicted with more and more ‘green’ taxes. It’s a huge source of income for the government. It’s big business for the scientific community – many scientists are making careers out of global warming – and scientists who try and tell the truth are treated as heretics.
Sorry to rant on about this, but I think it’s important to redress the balance – I think we shouldn’t abuse the environment, that’s obvious, but nor should we feel guilty about flying across the world because the airplane generates CO2.