To those who read or check Peaceful Seeds, thank you so much for your interest, and I'm truly sorry for the lack of activity over the last while. Life has calmed down now for a little while, giving me some actual time to reflect and write for my blog again.
over the past few months it's been nice to mostly have some fun with my posts, especially since the workload as well as the information intake got so enormously heavy. But now I've been able to rest a bit and can get back to business.
First of all, I'd like to just make a few points.
The Earth's climate is changing. This is old news, but a lot of people actually still don't believe in it. Particularly I want to address the Esoteric Agenda/New World Order conspiracy theorists. While we definitely live in an age of plutocracy and imperialism, Climate Change is not a lie dreamt up by the ruling elite. It is due partly to increased activity from the Sun. The sun, and as a result, the rest of the solar system, is getting hotter. However, because the sun has only been increasing in radiation output by 0.05% per decade, it's not nearly enough to account for the changing climate we see today. Now, of course there's always lots of misinformation, hearsay, and conjecture around these issues, and I myself must technically be included among it. Even so, as an environmental student, the actual science is very clear, as are the obvious trends which the climate is undergoing. I actually first noticed it when I was 12. But the point is, the number of cars in the world today is somewhere between 600 and 700 million. Carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere at an astounding and increasing rate, STILL. So much for the Kyoto Protocol. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, as are water vapour and methane. The CO2 being emitted by humanity is causing what is called the "Enhanced Greenhouse Effect", as opposed to the Natural Greenhouse Effect. The Natural Greenhouse Effect is part of the balance we used to have on this planet. The CO2 we used to emit was nowhere near the amount we emit today, and so it was absorbed by forests, grasslands, and oceans. Today, at least 20% of global annual greenhouse gas emissions comes from deforestation. The reforestation that is occurring is nothing compared to the amount of deforestation which is still being done, especially today in this economy. Alot of burning is being done. We're all still getting alot of our energy from coal, something i think should've stopped long ago. I was actually shocked when I was 13 when I learned that Canada was still getting energy from coal plants at all.
This is all indicative of anthropogenic climate change. Most of the people in the world are truly unaware of how fucked the environment is. We've lost half of our forests, half of our wetlands, much of our grasslands, our oceans are FUCKED, industries are still plundering resources and producing tons of pollution, nuclear energy is still putting people's health at risk and generating tons and tons of nuclear waste which we have no idea what to do with, and species are going extinct at a phenomenal rate. The other great extinction events throughout the Earth's history all took millions of years to happen; today's, which is called the Holocene Extinction event, is occurring alarmingly fast.
If you're reading this and you don't believe me, as I know some of you don't, please just go and check. But check exhaustively; don't just believe me, but find out for yourself. But if you don't believe me, then please don't just go and believe someone else's theories either. Check their facts and sources. If you go on Google scholar, you can find actual scientific reports based on real, hard data gathered in the field.
To encourage people to conduct their own research, I will not post my sources until tomorrow. See for yourself what's going on. The problem of course with the internet, is that all of the information is there, but so is all of the misinformation. One has to sift through it, and not be satisfied with any answers until they can be proven. If anyone can come up with some solid data that refutes anything I've said, please let me know so I can see it. Thank you all.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -Buddha
ReplyDeletethis post shows that you are truly a critical thinker, a scholar, and an activist. way to go!
When you said the oceans are fucked, you weren't kidding; I've been interested in coral reefs for a long time and I havent been ignorant to the changes that have occured. I don't know how anybody can. Rising sea temperatures and massive death of great expanses of coral. It's incredible. We see the world above land because it is *our* environment, but whats going on down below is so terrifying. And it all happens so fast, and there is really little we can do to reverse the effects :/
ReplyDeleteUgh. I wish we could download whats REALLY going on into people's brains. It would be the best use of technology as far as I've seen.