Around the World in 2 hours...............

Hello dear Readers,

The winter breeze is here (it has been for a long time..hehehe) and Christmas spirit is burning (in some parts of the world). This week was a very busy week because of one key event: The Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Our school was involved in a worldwide teleconference with other schools concerning this critical subject. So, in the beginning of the week our class spent time in preparing and educating ourselves about climate change and resource consumption. We also intensely studied individual, national and economical factors contributing to those issues. Before I go on, I should point out that climate change is a natural occurring "event" that has happened in (many) years preceding. Now, that is cleared up things get muddier from then on. Different people from different stances on the political spectrum will tell you that it is either "We're all going to perish and die because of climate change and over consumption". While the other says "Don't worry, be happy, climate change is not real and there are sooo much resources in our Earth. Those that say otherwise are morons." I personally believe that humanity's action and growth has exacerbated the problem.

(Funny take on Global warming, Oops, I mean climate change)

So let's talk one specific factor (there's so much that one could write an epic about it). One huge factor contributing to the warming of the climate and the thawing of the ice caps is the industrialization of the next superpower, China and a contender, India. Both nations have a combined total of 2.5 billion people (I overestimated a little, 1.3 for China and about 1 bil. for India). That's almost half of the world's population. Imagine that. That's a lot of  new cars in the road, forests to destroy (for farms) and landfills to fill. I'm not saying that we should stop these 2 behemoths from industrializing but I think we (the west) should put our thinking caps on and give them an alternative choice in industrializing or in the very least develop technologies and laws to lessen the impact on the environment. I mean, the West itself industrialized in the past and it would be hypocritical to say to China and India not to. I mean solar power for me should be further developed with government help (or funds) instead of giving them, in the forms of subsidies, to oil and gas GIANTS.

(Cool isn't it?)

One thing that is bothering me when discussing the environment and climate change is that I think people don't care anymore. I'm not some sort a super hippie, tree-hugger, pacifist person but I think that the environment is a key source for discussion and eventual action because WE LIVE IN IT. Recently, I found news that people are having "green fatigue". I shook my head when I saw that because if the Earth had a "human fatigue" we'll all be not here. We have to control ourselves from over consuming. But MDGProject, what about the economies and wouldn't the Earth eventually restore itself? Yeah, sure the Earth will restore itself but there isn't gonna be an Earth, when WE are done with it. To answer the economics part, how is money useful when you can't spend it on anything. The earth would be a barren wasteland, full of nothingness. To use a comparison, it's like putting oil on yourself and setting the house on fire. It's just plain simple and yet we find incredibly complex, like other things.

Sorry I didn't talk about the conferences (because they never achieve anything) and the behavior of the  school that we got for the teleconferencing was just..just..just...........


MDGProject........