Where Is Mr.Green?

In recent events, a team of international scientists led by Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies confirm the worst as they unveiled that in a recent study that carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are in the circumference of the danger zone. Great dire is at hand as concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere stand at 385 part per million (ppm) and are rising at a steady rate of two ppm per year. According to the scientists this triggers a chain of dangerous changes to our precious blue and green planet. The future looks grim as deserts expend, food becomes scarce, storms intensify, coral reefs wiped out, and mountain glaciers – which by the way supplies water to countless of millions of humans - make a disappearing act.
I’ve always gone by the mindset of “half-full” but in this entry, it can’t be helped but to think "half-empty" due to the horrifying foresight of the things to come; also at the notion that we have dug ourselves a bottomless grave.

The future indeed is a dark cloud and I’m not speaking of the carbon dioxide that blankets the earth. The main reason for all this doomsday predictions? you guessed it, us. We have become far too comfortable in immersing ourselves in gluttony; and indulged ourselves in our insatiable greed. We face a gloomy and dismal future, in courtesy of our over-consumption of resources. Demand is rising and supply is becoming scarce. Surely there is a principle that humanity has forgotten and that is: Too much of everything is not a good thing. In this generation we have the tendency to delight in agility. Fast cars, instant noodles, one-night stands, marriages, you name it. But the number one factor that has led to this problem is our misuse of technology. We like fast things, so we use technology to gratify our desires. We prefer to get to our destination quicker, so we built cars, and now the car is one of the top five contributors of green house emissions. Its pure self-infliction on our part.
We have neglected our responsibilities as the top hierarchy and as good stewards of the earth. But on the brighter side: we are becoming more aware and concerned to this crisis than before, and we have made the effort to clean up our act.

Credits to:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/21/climate.danger.zone/index.html