I Can Change the World

            Rising sea level from the rapidly melting glaciers off the coast of Greenland may bury in its depths islands close to the ocean wherein their lives depended on. But now, the ever changing climate will cause their impending doom. What a down-spirited feeling it is, isn’t it? Considering that there are many islands near sea level. The world map might just have to be revised if that happens. Some parts of the seven continents might even vanish on the face of the Earth. The Earth is as warm as flames in a winter’s day, it sends a chill in your bones that in the future there will be an epidemic in skin cancer and people, you and me, will die in anguish.

            If we continue to abuse nature, throwing garbage anywhere, illegal logging, and many a cruelty to our God-given home, Earth will change to its worst. By now, she’s on Red Alert.

            We must all turn to gaze at the light of reality before it’s too late. Every one of us needs our Mother Earth, and she, too needs our call.

The World Amidst Our Eyes

          Have you seen the documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth? If yes, your eyes may be really that wide open of all the changes that happened in our world today. You may have seen what one crisis leads us to weary experiences. That is Global Warming.

            The documentary film, with Al Gore as the main speaker, simply says that we, the people living in this world are totally blinded of the discomfort that we are feeling about the truth on Global Warming. It is indeed not suited to our comfort but then, we are the ones to be blamed. This film tends to unfold our eyes in seeing the beginning of a climate crisis that threatens life on Earth as we know it. The on-screen evidence is difficult to dismiss-the charts and graphs reveal frightening trends, and the film loses no time showing us the destruction of hurricanes along with a series of comparative photographs from disappearing glaciers around the world, footage of collapsing ice shelves, data on the record, number of storms, floods, and other kinds of extreme weather, animations of the effects of rising sea levels, new diseases, photos of dying polar bears and disappearing coral reefs. “It is a nature hike through the Book of Revelations,” As what Al Gore stated.

            Many people ask why would anybody in their right mind want to spend their hard-earned money on a slide show like this. My answer is, that is because knowledge is empowering and “An Inconvenient Truth” is not a depressing film. Gore’s forecast is serious, but he knows better than to leave us in despair. There is room for hope. He insists that the solutions to the problems are within reach; we only lack the will to do anything about what we calls a “moral imperative.”

            Why would we let ourselves suffer more? Why not help each other in eliminating this predicament. You might just don’t know and notice it but I, you, he and she can change the world.