Tuesday Thoughts: Deserted Earth

With all the fuss about climate change, global warming and greenhouse gases in the air, you have to wonder on how long the earth can exist with living beings on it. Health and hunger are perhaps two concerns as we continue to find ways to avoid the unfortunate mishaps from happening.

Definitely, we are the cause of our own doing. Our irresponsible nature and total disregard for our resources in the pursuit of being successful in any endeavor are the main reasons why these things are occurring. Take discoveries for instance. For a person to gain fame and add to the growing knowledge of his curiosity, he has to use resources and eventually create waste that comes and goes back to the environment.

In short, the world we live in is acting as a medium to which we turn raw materials into something useful which is not bad. The bad thing is when we forget how much we use and if the end product will play an integral role towards affecting the world as a whole. No matter how small it may be, if it piles up, we will have a big problem in our hand.

Let us focus on pollution. These days, fuel and crude oil prices are headlining the news for their whopping prices. Many attribute it to politics while others admit that we just used up too many of it. The two reasons do sound valid but the thing is we fail to look at the other side of the fence. Just where did greenhouse gases come from? It came from our use of cars and industrial equipment. So why else are we suffering from climate change and global warming? Pollution is a key instigator.

So if all of these issues continue, who else will be around for the next century? Not a single life may be around and we all have ourselves to thank for it.

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