Beautiful Destruction

Written by Randi Becker Thursday, 21 October 2010 10:58

Since the 1970’s the depletion of the Earth’s ozone has been an increasingly threatening matter.

The nightmare that is global warming, has transformed the once mesmerizing snow covered mountains scattered across our world into melted shells of their former selves. The rising temperatures have begun to melt the polar ice caps, causing devastatingly hot summers and have made life all the more difficult.

The drastic change in temperature over that last decade or so has caused a change in climate, causing more severe tropical storms, wild fires, and heat waves putting everyone at risk.

More than a million animals face extinction from disappearing habitat and changing ecosystems.

Coral reefs which are highly sensitive to changes in water temperature suffered the worst bleaching, in which coral reefs die off due to stress from the change in their environment. The changing water temperature cause the worst bleaching ever recorded in 1998. some areas had as much as a 70% bleach rate.

This is the world we will raise our children in.

A world full of desperation, fear, carelessness and extinction.

The next generation will never see a polar bear, a coral reef, or a glacier outside the pages of a book unless immediate and drastic changes are made to counteract what is becoming of our world.

Scientist have decided on mars for our next planet.

When this one is too trashed, too hot, too unsuitable for human life,

We will board a spaceship and travel for twenty years to a new planet that we will in time destroy.

The sad fact is that some of the damage is irreversible.

We will never be able to fix the world, but we can make it better.

The average American household emits 23,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year,

Carbon is a greenhouse gas that goes into the air and accumulates in the atmosphere and traps gasses that would other wise exit into space causing temperatures to rise.

Human activities are the source of global warming, such as population growth, factory farming, deforestation and the use of fossil fuels.

The rate at which our planet is shutting down may seem unimportant now,

But we will see lasting results in the future.

By 2040, water levels are expected to have risen by at least 23 inches, so much for the sea-side condos.

There are many problems in our world, from the disease ridden, starving kids all over the world, to the kidnapers down the street and the robber around the block.

The point is nothing will change unless someone is willing to change it.

Think of all the activist groups we have out there, all the groups dedicated to “making the world a better place”

Peta, Greenpeace, Pro-life organizations, Civil Society Project, Earth Save!, Earthfirst International, Evergreen Freedom foundation and so many more.

Petitions are being passed through all these groups to stand up for something, or to right something that is wrong.

Find what it is you want to change, something that has a great impact on you, or your surroundings and do something about it.

“if your not part of the solution, your part of the problem.”