Climate Change - Real of fake?

Global Climate Change – real or fake?

Every single day we hear a new piece of evidence on the news about Global Warming. We are bombarded with information about carbon dioxide, solar flares, rising oceans and much more. It is all a bit scary if you take it for real because it means the world as we know it is not sustainable.
Global Climate Change – real or fake?

From time to time, the media will try and counter balance this torrent of climate change science with some stories about why global warming is not a problem after all (to ensure that both parts of the story is heard). Balance in reporting is important and people deserve to hear two points of view on such an important topic as, well, the end of the world as we know it. Right?

Ok, I have gone onto a bit of a sidetrack here but stick with me. Lets imagine you have a lump on your leg. It looks a bit strange, feels odd and gives you a bit of a creepy feeling but you are too scared to see the doctor to understand what this is. Your wife tells you to go and you keep telling her that you will do it next week. The lump keeps growing and you do nothing. In fact, you begin to live with the thought of the lump and it stops bothering you.

This reminds me of what we are seeing happen around us today. It is very typical human nature, playing out right before our eyes. Except the lump is our planet, the one and only place we have to live. Now I spend a great deal of my time looking through scientific articles, counter articles, I read peoples blogs and comments. There are soo many different points of view on this subject. They are ranging from religious beliefs that we are meant and bound to use gods resources to that the water will rise 80 meter and the world will end. Impossible to find common ground.

As we are living in a relatively free world where the consumer, that is you and me, are ultimately responsible for the outcome of tomorrow we are faced with a dilemma. We are the responsible parts, the drivers of destructions of everything around us but not prepared to pay any cost to become friends with nature again. In other words, we are doomed as we are, regardless of climate change.

Climate change is only one of a pile of problems which are building up on this wonderful planet of ours. We have increasing amounts of nuclear waste, pollution, species loss, habitat destruction, forest removal. You name it, we are doing it. And the CO2 is just the top of the iceberg.

I sit there in my car, heat my house, watch the news, use my PC. Everything I do makes CO2 and its the same for everyone around me. I can kindly ask my friends to cook with a lid or change to energy saving bulbs but they don't. Why is that?

We don't accept our role on this planet as protectors. We are still stuck in the mentality that the planet and its resources are infinate. And our lives are too short to know any better. I fear for tomorrow and with good reason. Because the more you read, the more you understand that this is not a scary bedtime story, it's the real thing and we are all in this mess together.