a band-aid on a bullet wound?

Unless you've been living under a rock or in a cave, you've definitely heard of An Inconvenient Truth. It presents the harsh reality that is climate change and global warming, and where the planet is headed if we continue living the way we do. Al Gore is one impressive man, and I have to say, it really sucks that he didn't win. As Hannah put it, instead of fighting terrorism, the fight would've been against global warming.

There was a screening of this movie in HELP today, which me and Hannah went for. I think the part that stuck with me the most was that polar bears are drowning.

Yes, you read that right. They drown from sheer exhaustion, cuz they swim and swim and swim and there's no ice for them to get out of the water on. And the visuals were quite influential as well. When ice melts, so much of the world will be under water that in just China and India (if I remember correctly), 100 million people will become refugees. Remember the devastation that occurred after Hurricane Katrina? That happened in a supposedly developed nation, and that was only tens of thousands of people.

This is the real apocalypse, people.

There was this one scene of a picture of the earth taken from squillions of miles away, and it was nothing, nothing but a tiny blue speck. It reminded me of something I once wrote:

How little sense does it actually make? Think about it. Everything we know. Everything we are. All of it happens on this spherical mass of land and sea and ice, and this mass revolves around this bigger mass of pure heat. And you know how in books they draw orbits? Completely imaginary. And all of that happens in complete nothingness, except for other bits and other masses. Honestly, the idea of space seems like something from a really bad sci-fi movie. How ironic is that, that all of existence seems so farcical?

As a friend of mine would say, I'm having one of my moments. To think, that ALL of existence is on that little blue speck that is slowly and surely being destroyed by the very people who are utterly dependant on it.

This picture is from here.

Actually, not slowly. It really, really makes me wish that people in this country were more willing to do something to change their habits. I think we're getting there - I have seen separate bins so rubbish can by recycled in shopping malls. But more needs to be done to make it easier to do good. Do we even HAVE those Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs here? What about recycling household waste? I'd like to see it being made compulsory to separate our trash, like it is in Switzerland.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves. To start with, carpool. It's not immensely difficult. And turn off your electronic devices when you're not using them. Even leaving your phone charger plugged in when you're not using it is BAD.

It's not like we have a real alternative. What happens when all of this catches up with us? It'll be too late to say, ooops! Maybe we should've done something to fix this before it became an attempt to put a band-aid on a bullet wound.