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Writers Of The World Unite Against Global Degradation
The pen IS mightier than the sword.
The headline news this morning was a wake-up call from the IPPC to all human inhabitants of this planet that we are on a slippery slope to disaster. In what form will this disaster take? Rising oceans, scorching temperatures making some areas of the planet unliveable, greater and more frequent storms, extensive flooding, droughts, disappearing glaciers causing disappearing potable water in various parts of the world, or all of the above.
As anyone knows who has read my posts, I have three grandchildren. They are three and a half, two and a half, and four months. What is their world going to be like in twenty years if we continue down this road? I shudder to think if we continue pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Currently, we, the inhabitants of this planet are using up the earth’s resources at an unsustainable rate. Think of the earth’s resources as a line of credit account. If we keep debiting more from the account than we are crediting back into it, eventually we are going to run out of money. Simple mathematics. We are not planning for the future nor are we thinking of future generations. We are simply being selfish. Or is it plain old greed? Or perhaps, stupidity?
