Friday, May 18, 2007

Global warming, the ice are thawing

I was reading this article in the national geographic “The Big Thaw” and suddenly realized that end of the world, is it really happening? The sudden realization kind of made me worried. Well, many of us may not be living long enough to witness that day when it comes, but certainly, the thought of it would have make have made many of us terrified.

Global warming. You may have read news reporting but how many of us have really thought about it? We have always been living in the warm seasons all year round, we may not have feel the danger approaching. The glorious days are over. You may have skied in Bolivia, but now it has become a land of death spiral. Slabs of ice are melting, and melting fast, faster than the researchers could even foresee. The ice sheet is stirring, the sea level is rising.

In years to come, our main worry will not be shortage of water consumption for all the livings but, coping with the directions of these fluids. Will many of the countries be drown and submerge under the raising sea level? What can be done to minimize losses and death? Which will be the surviving plot of lands or countries or will there even be left with any? And how to accommodate all the livings onto these limited lands? Killings for survival? War to declare victory over these pathetic lands? And will there be any more polar bears? Will the globe become a sphere of fluid? Will we move to another planet? Will all beings live under the sea or non living will ever be found on earth again, marking the day of the end of the world?

Instead of ways to purifying water, perhaps its time to start research on how to freeze these melted fluid into solid state again and store for future usage? And perhaps its time to plan a trip to these cold countries before they become just greenery? And maybe its time to learn, swimming?

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