Blog : An inconvenient fact

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4/11/2008 5:40 am

An inconvenient fact

A few days ago I revisited the town I grew up in. And in one morning I took off to take a swim at a local beach resort I often went to when I was a . The place was running low on customers and the kiosks were old and run-down from use. What struck me with surprise was the fact that the beach shoreline is now more than 10 meters closer to land than it used to. And it wasn't high tide. I remember when I was a of 7 years, the beach was wider for people to run around and play and build sandcastles, the water was so shallow because I could go further away from the shore without the water reaching my shoulders. In the mid 90's the resort became infamous for dance and disco parties along the beach, that it hosted for the public just to copy the MTV Grind. So the beach was wide enough to accommodate a number of people. Now this wide sandy area of the beach no longer exists, for it has been consumed by the sea. Well, it may look normal to some people but for me, it's really alarming. The barangay area this resort is located in, had also been experiencing immediate floods after rain showers and water levels rising and consuming a large part of the beach areas. Not only that, the town has been hit with typhoons more often than usual last year than in previous years. This brings in the issue of Global warming. A fact that is not really taken seriously by some people, especially from the lower classes since they are not that well informed or well explained on what causes global warming and how it can affect us. I myself was ignorant to what global warming was until I was able to watch Al Gore's documentary film on Global Warming, "The Inconvenient Truth." After watching it, my eyes opened towards being more conscious about nature. And I'm actually getting a little paranoid about it because of the fact that it causes abrupt changes in the world's environment, the El niños and La niñas, the melting of glaciers and ice in the north pole more rapidly than normal, sea levels increasing around the globe, more frequent and stronger typhoons, outbreak of new kinds of diseases, more hotter summer days and a lot more. I think that it also helped contribute to recent rice shortages and price increases of goods because of bad weather and lesser crops and produce, added with the non-stop increase of our population. Global Warming for me, is the Apocalypse. God's punishment for us because not taking good care of the world he created for us. The question is, is it too late for us to stop it? Maybe. As long as we act fast. Spread the truth about Global Warming. Each and everyone of us has to act his/her part. Sadly, even media mileage about Global Warming is still not reaching the less informed or less educated. So word of mouth can help greatly...pass the message around like a chain letter. Save energy. Save water. Save resources. Plant trees. Use public transportation. Stop burning oil or fuel and start using alternative sources of energy. Start population control. All these things has to be done in order to stop Global Warming. If you need more info on it, then google it... you'll find a lot of sites trying to give out one simple message. Save this planet, because this is the only one we have, to live on. And that's a fact. For now, we can only hope...

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