Saturday, August 15, 2009

We're giving her the migraine.


The tall trees in the lot, motorelas and trisikads, the streetlights and the sound of laughter from children in an empty highway are among the most unforgettable, reminiscing days of my childhood. I often wonder of the life I had back then compared to the present time where in children are isolated in net cafes and billiard stands.

I’m trying to spot the difference, and I generalize that we have a fresher environment back then, we have more trees and we have more space to run and get wild. (“,) So the world changes, but does it have to be altered so differently? We all heard about the hullabaloos on global warming and such but frankly we are the ones who started it all, we are the ones who caused nuisance on mother earth. I really inquire what gives us the right to wreck our planet.

An excerpt in the Human Development Report 1998 Overview by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Today's consumption is undermining the environmental resource base. It is exacerbating inequalities. And the dynamics of the consumption-poverty-inequality-environment nexus are accelerating. If the trends continue without change - not redistributing from high-income to low-income consumers, not shifting from polluting to cleaner goods and production technologies, not promoting goods that empower poor producers, not shifting priority from consumption for conspicuous display to meeting basic needs-today's problems of consumption and human development will worsen... The real issue is not consumption itself but its patterns and effects.

During the last half century world population has climbed from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 5.9 billion in 1998. The U.N. predicts that another 3.3 billion will be added by 2050. This Worldwatch Institute report evaluates the effects of the world's burgeoning population in 19 different areas, including water supply, biodiversity, waste control, food supply, education, housing, jobs, and more. Brown explores the interactions among the various issues: for example, insufficient water affects farmers' ability to produce food; insufficient food affects health and may contribute to social unrest. The book calls for the immediate expansion of international family planning assistance and educational efforts to help promote a shift to smaller families. 1999, W. W. Norton
I deem that the outburst in the increasing number of earth’s inhabitants will trigger a much off-putting response by mother earth. It is of our own duty to be observant of whatever task we do, because in one way or another, the world gives a critical response that might put us on test.
Population growth is one among the many factors that prompt earth’s deterioration. The earth like a sail boat will only hold up to its weighing capacity, once it overloads the boat sinks. Now we don’t want this to happen on our earth. We should be able to meditate and find time to realize that the earth is not a magic carpet, it has its limitation. It is bound to fall short if we will not stop our drastic issues. So let’s Stop, Look, and Listen for what the earth has to stay about our own mediocrity.

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