Monica E. Revadulla Reaction Paper NASC 10 U July 24, 2013

Global Warming

The issue of global warming has been overrated ever since I was in high school.

The moment I watched the documentary by Former US Vice – President Al Gore, the

news and facts about the issue spread like wildfire, and various societies, groups and

individuals spearheaded their own means on “preventing” global warming.

Let’s face the fact that global warming is coming. There would come a time when

everything seen in the video (shown in NASC 10) would happen in front of our eyes (or

the generations of adults and kids after us), and there’s absolutely no way to stop it. Bible

believers would be basing on their Great Book and blame the people (can we blame

anyone else?) on the phenomenon, scientists would just shake their heads on the idea of

it and the knowledge that they cannot prevent it. Maybe, just maybe, it can be prevented,

but only for a short while.

Trees take years to have a positive effect on the global warming process but

deforesters cut logs every hour in almost every side of the earth, factories and cars

exhume carbon every minute of the day, computers and cellphones give off heat every

second of the day.

The video was primarily a show that scientists can predict the state of the earth

once its temperature spikes up to a maximum of six degrees, secondarily a somehow

futile call to commoners to “help” in the “prevention of global warming”. It’s not an

exaggeration to say that in order to do so, our lifestyle must be technologically degraded

by 50%: use bicycles, post letters, removal of factory-produced food from our diets (which,

come to think of it, is almost everything), etc.

If one would still consider to go on with his life (which, in this case, almost

everyone), then the prevention of global warming isn’t possible. We can’t help it if our

lifestyle today negatively affects our Mother Earth, because scientists eons ago greatly

contributed to it by imposing on us that their inventions are for the better. Yes, it’s for the

better in terms of communication, economy, politics, education, and I can’t pinpoint why

not even a single scientist eons ago predicted the effects of these inventions to Earth

today.

Mere adaptation to the society and lifestyle of the country (and the world) results

to us facing the consequences of global warming. Our generation, from birth, is

unconsciously taught how to contribute to global warming, not prevent it. A normal kid in

a normal society would have to reach ten years old in order to realize that global warming

is the cause of extreme heat and moody climate, and all of a sudden he is called to prevent

it.

How many kids in a billion would respond to that call? A few, I’m sure.

It’s happening, and there’s absolutely no way to completely stop it.