Prelude:
It is not my intention to scare anybody. I
should be writing about positive things that would uplift our hope about the
future; but the truth is loud and clear, our environment is at the brink of
breakdown and we should do something about it before it is too late. This is my
way of creating awareness about the condition we are all in and find ways
however simple or small to protect our environment and conserve the natural
resources we still have. Being aware about the gloomy future and not doing
anything and continuing with our lavish and happy go lucky lifestyle with the
notion that "We will all die, why not make the most of it by partying,
eating, drinking and buying the things we want while we can?" will only
make matters worse. This is our mother Earth and we should do our part in
making her clean and habitable for our children and the next generations to
come.
The Present Day:
It is safe
to say that most people today are oblivious of what will happen to them in the
near future. They are caught in their daily routine to work and earn money to
buy food and things that are necessary to survive daily. Some buy things that
are not necessary but for the sake of its aesthetic value and buy things as an
effect of mind conditioning and selling techniques of: TV commercials,
billboards, magazines, newspapers even beauty pageants, fashion shows, concerts
and boxing bouts. All of us want to build our houses and buy new clothes and
shoes. We look into the future on the basis of improving our skill to acquire
more material wealth that most people consider as success. We can say that this
is happening in a global scale and enhanced by digital boom of the internet and
other forms of media.
Businesses
flourish due to production and consumerism because there is an ever increasing
demand and some even create demands for goods that have less appeal to
consumers through controversy and other unscrupulous marketing strategies. What
is important to these big corporate conglomerates are cost of production and
profits with the motivation of greed. “Greed is good” they say.
Everybody is tied to
politics and the economic and financial system that are rooted in greed and
callousness as long as they satisfy their personal interests to the detriment
of the people. Government spending is viewed as economically sound since it
improves the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) even if it is already hurting the
environment through exploitation of natural resources.
Technology is making
progress in every aspect of human life whether it is for the cure of diseases,
amenities and comfortable living or for the destruction of human life like
bullets and bombs for warfare.
Yes, despite all
the dangers and benefits that the world can offer, we can say that we are still
all part of these conditions – that everything on earth is
inter-connected.
The Inter-connectivity of All:
Tinker on one aspect of humanity and
everything is affected. For example, raise the price of fuel or gasoline and
the price of goods will also increase and the purchasing power of the people
will decrease unless there is an increase in their salary. Transportation fare,
electricity and water rates all increase to the burden of the citizens. Even
tuition fees are affected by this increase in price because oil or fuel is a
prime commodity that we cannot live without. Much more if it is the
availability of food that is affected in a global scale. No economic measures
could alleviate its catastrophic effect on the lives of people.
Oil and coal are
all carbon based and when burned to provide energy to cars and factories or
generate electric power to light and energize machines and appliances in our
homes it also emits carbon dioxide to the atmosphere where it accumulates in
large amounts enough to cause global warming that have profound disastrous
effects to our environment in which we live.
What is being done?
To avoid this
impending catastrophe, Super Power nations are into biological research and
development of space travel. An option is to send people in the moon or other
planet(s) or space lab to save the human race for possible extinction due to
Nuclear Warfare and virus/bacteria pandemics. Scientists are into genetic
engineering with the purpose of creating super beings that could survive
radioactivity, hunger and resistant to harmful viruses and bacteria. Scientists
are also developing super medicines that could cure infectious and deadly
diseases. They are also into cloning of individuals whether human or animals
whose organs can be harvested and transplanted into humans with diseased
kidney, heart, lungs, etc. They will make slave robots for: industries,
exploration, home and warfare. The question is will they be ahead or will they
beat the deadline of what will happen soon?
The Inevitable Consequence:
It cannot be
disputed anymore that we are now living in a dangerous era where all the signs
of Climate Change is happening all around us. Due to the increase in earth
temperature due to air pollution, the polar icebergs and mountain ice caps are
melting resulting to increase in sea level and subsequent flooding of low lying
areas. Seas are warming resulting to the altering of weather conditions
creating the El Nino and La Nina Phenomenon causing long period of droughts and
existence of strong typhoons and snow blizzards. This also results to warming
of the seas that affect ocean currents that have disastrous effects on
planktons, corals and algae on major rivers and seas. With less available
nutrients, the population of fish is decreasing coupled with the
illegal/overfishing practices of fishermen to meet the demand of people
consuming fish has resulted to less fish catch and they have to go out further
to sea exposing them to more dangers. Less fish catch means higher prices of
fish in local and foreign markets creating a “domino” effect on the lives of
people. Small village fishermen have less source of protein and they become
malnourished and prone to different diseases and mortality. To avoid this,
member of their family start their exodus to big cities hoping they could find
jobs and provide sustenance to their families left behind in the provinces.
Major cities become over-populated which will result to more crimes, robberies
and killings.
Agriculture is
also very much affected by global warming since the regularity of rainfall in
the area is affected. Long period of droughts results to the decimation of
crops and livestock causing exodus of farmers to big cities and other fertile
areas. On the other hand, too much rainfall and strong winds will cause
flooding and devastation to the farmers livelihood. There is also a problem of
salt infiltration and acidification of soil brought about by too much
application of chemical soil fertilizers that will result to “locking” of soil
minerals and nutrients. Plants will not be able to absorb these nutrients and
minerals and would have stunted growth and contain not enough nutrients for
animal and human sustenance. Due to droughts, the salinity of soil surrounded
by seawater will slowly increase making them un-productive. Soil Erosion and
siltation of seas have negative effect on shallow water corals.
It is projected
that 30 to 50 years from now, the availability of potable water will become
scarce. The source of non-renewable resources such as oil and fuel would
probably been depleted and the power needs of nations will be put in a critical
level unless the renewable sources of power are fully developed such as solar
and wind energy.
With less food in
the markets, people living in the provinces and cities will have a hard time
earning money to buy fish, meat, vegetables and water whose prices would have
increased dramatically due to Climate Change. There will be chaos and disorder
resulting to looting and lawlessness. The Law of Nature which states that:
“Only the strong of species will survive” will always hold true. Anarchy will
prevail in the streets and no one is safe even from their houses. Offices and
factories will shut down and many people will be jobless.
Countries will be in
grave competition with other countries resulting to invasion and wars that will
result to a World War that will force the Super Powers such as USA, China,
Russia, Korea, Iran to aim and execute firing orders of their nuclear arms to
each other that will result to global destruction. This is the so called
“Armageddon” which is the final battle of good and evil.
The Aftermath:
No one really knows if the human race will
survive the nuclear war. For sure some animals and plants will survive and they
will dominate the earth. Each Super Power nation has built strong bunkers for
their presidents and families and their staff. It is for sure that they could
survive many days and even months inside those protective bunkers with enough
food and water but for how long? Assuming they have survived and successfully
went through the radioactive stage by “means” of scientific wonders and the
world has naturally healed itself and plants and animals have grown back, this
is the time when a new world will be born. The good will still triumph over
evil. Only a few people have survived and there will be less competition for food,
water and shelter. Order will again be restored to start a new beginning!
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