Global Warming

Global warming is a worldwide issue. I might even chance to say it's global.

Many are confused, doubting the negative changes in our atmosphere. Perhaps the 30 degree weather in April spawned this belief. What these people are missing, however, is the fact that global warming doesn't just make everything warmer. It changes the global climate. This could mean cooling temperatures. Whatever the circumstances, 30 degrees in April is not normal. Enormous, metropolis-destroying hurricanes...normal? Will we let this ease its way into our conciousness, becoming the norm and eventually leading to our demise? Maybe not your demise, yours might be of "natural" causes. I'm more worried about mine. Will there be another form of natural cause entering ourdescription of death?

No. We cannot sit and close our eyes while we slowly destroy the world.

My concern is more for the lack of action from our own, personal, U.S. government. It boggles my mind to think of how we close our eyes like children, blind ourselves to the issues and hope that they'll go away. We hide under the covers and wait for our mothers to save us from the big nasty monsters. For us, there are no mothers. We are big people. We have perfect capabilities to solve these issues, or at least be proactive in attempting to. There is no reason to fear the big, nasty oil companies whose narrow-sightedness endows them to the fate of sacrificing worldwide, long-term good for their personal frivolous short-term amenities. Or are the oil companies really that corrupt? Have we really appealed to them? Or is the fear just a guise: an excuse for procrastination?

Whatever the situation, we don’t have the time to wait for others to realize the gravity of the situation. We can’t all sit in the back row and hope to not be called on. We can’t wait for others to do the job that is meant for us all. Where are the leaders in today’s society? Someone has got to tell the U.S. to stop being run by the oil companies, and start being run by the people who care. Who will care? A trucker? A student? A professor? A child?

Is it you?

I know it’s me. Please help me get up my courage so I can help save the world.