Going Green!

"In the beginning, the Lord made the earth, the heaven, the hills and the seas. Then He created the sun, the stars, the lands, the birds, the trees."

This is not the usual mushy, crappy article that I write. I dont even know if this makes sense. I just felt the need to write about something 'earth - friendly" considering what our country has been through, the past days. And also, my friend, L.A gave his 10 cents on climate change so "kay suya on man ko" (am naturally envious), so here goes the futile attempt to promote environmental awareness and all that jazz!

It is an undeniable fact that we've got only one planet to live and this is earth. Before it was such a clean and beautiful place with abundant trees growing luxurantly here and there. It was a real paradise! But then, sometiem ago, as man strive for survival and pursue prosperity, he started to tamper, alter, and modify the once beautiful and bountiful mother earth. What we've got now is an imbalanced ecology. A picture of a sick mother earth. What must we do? Yes, we must do something to save mother earth. How? Do we really have to make the choice between environmental catastrophe and enormous cost? The choice is yours!

James Hansen an atmospheric scientist and director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space studies declared that the greenhouse effect is changing our climate now. If green house gases were less plentiful or entirely absent, temperature on earth would average below freezing. Thus, there is global warming. So let's start regreening our environment. I wouldnt recommend anything more special and lavish except that let's go on planting trees. Forestration and refrostration are needed, not deforestration. Start with our own backyards.

Can we be certain that global warming will occur, considering the millions of typhoons guesting our planet and our counry lately? Well, it might be. How heat travels through the atmosphere and back into space is another big question mark for the global warming theory. So do with other factors like the sunspot cycle, the effect of atmospheric pollution and volcanic particles which can reflect sunslight back into space. One of the devastating effects of global warming will be the raising of sea levels.

We must inculcate in our minds that worst consequences from people's modification of the physical environment are faced by the whole populace in the world. Mother Earth is really suffering.

What has our government been doing to remedy air and water pollution in our country? Well, we are ware that programs and solutions have been constituted but not fully implemented by the inhabitants of Mother Earth. We have to act now, coordinate with our leaders and do our share to save Mother Earth. Coerce our barangay Tanods if we must! We have to change the way we live to avoid environmental catastrophe before it's too late. It is time that we consider new approaches that would protect our environmental resources while managing and sustaining development. Let's join our hands altogether in the improvement of environmental sanitation, beautifucation, health habits, food production and ecological values. Let's save Mother Earth! Let's make it a wonderful place to live in. A liable world. let us help in promoting programs that would help preserve a healthy life and substantial industrial development and agriculture.

In some generation, many were given and underatke and much is expected but it is, I believe in these trying of times that we will have a rendezvous with destiny. Are you with us in this journey?