Global Warming – an end of a social and evolutional cycle

I’ve just recently what An Inconvenient Truth starring by Mr. Gore. This is a fabulous documentary film about a forgotten serious issue, Global Warming.

Al Gore uses an informative presentation to show us that our world is in a dangerous situation where human activities has caused so much damage on nature just to indulge our weakness. Most of the glaciers from every where around the world have been melting away, some have been transformed to water, while some even have dried away to the dust.

“And what do we suffer now?” This question is still being passed around by skepticists regardless bunches of answers throwing at them. Hurricane Katrina is one of the obvious proof. More and more unusual floods and tornados have been spreading around through Asia to Middle East reaching Europe. If you watch the film, Al Gore explains it very clearly why these unusual disasters happen. Temperature changes also alter the lives of insects and micro-organisms which cause more and more new disease with the come back of older ones. These such as SARS have killed hundred of thousands of people.

The future scene has much more to concern. As the ice on Greenland is melting halfway, the sea level will rise up to 20 feet if the whole ice of this area disappeared, which is very possible. All these means that major cities in the world such as New York or Beijing have to see their buildings submerged by sea water. More than that, streams of refugees will cause much more economic and health mess around the areas. This is a very huge impact that we have to face in a very close future.

Jared Diamond, who is a professors researching on social destruction due to human activities, wrote in his book “Collapse” that we humans together created many socities with many way of cultures, then political parties were formed with various structures to keep order of these societies; and with a strong foundation of stable government, economies boomed. Disasters came after this turning point. Humans has been exploiting natural resources in order to increase productions to keep up with consumers demands and corporation profits. Finally, nature revenge with a high price, which can cost an economy, a political party or even destroy a cultural society such the Somalia or the Maya did with woods over-usage.

These are not written to scare us, but to warn us that we are in the verge of collapse. While history teaches us about the collapse of certain groups of societies, this global warming may bring in the destruction of the whole world. This is our only home in this universe. If it is blown away, we will have nowhere to go.