I recently had a discussion with an eminent researcher in natural hazards and climate change. The views and conclusions reached by this scholar jive with those of climatologists around the world who see that global warming is a life ending possibility. The planet we live on will go kaput if we do not stop talking and pointing fingers, but act to avoid the unavoidable.
Now, global warming is not an easy sell because many of the countries that will feel its effects are poor countries without a voice at the various world political communities. Huge tidal waves will flood or wash away the shores of those beautiful islands where you spend your caribbean vacation, for example.
Many experts are also predicting that this global problem will also hit large metropolitan cities like New York. In fact, any city or town close to lakes or other major waterways can see their real estate swamped like the ancient cities you read about in the geographical encyclopedias.
But drowning, flooding and other water specific dangers are not the only ones will hit us hard in global warming gone berserk. Already, health experts are taking about malaria and other physical ailments. Also, studies from mental health researchers reveal that mental illness is becoming a constant in some communities or subgroups.
Of course, this all sounds alarming, and we can go back to our normal ways after reading this piece, but the time is drawing near when we have to suffer for our inaction. But you don’t have to lay down and wait for the train to run over you. You can take specific steps to foil this worldwide plague that will visit us within a few years if we don’t change our ways.
Get involve with groups such as PETA, Vegetarian Associations, and concerned scientists who can help you understand what is going on in your neighborhood. They can also tell you how to change your eating habits and other destructive habits that have contributed to this terrible condition that will come on us soon if we don’t act now!
