Well, upon looking through the Greenpeace website yesterday, while doing a bit of research, I was reminded of all the cool stuff they've done, and, pretty much why I'm a member. During my little forage, I can across a link to a website : www.blogactionday.org  ...
"Well" I thought "that's tomorrow!". So I decided to register and join in. So, here we go. Blog Action Day!
Basically, the idea of today is to raise awareness of our enviroment and why we should take care of our planet.
My particular musing on this was "What can one person do? Is it worth it? Have we already killed our planet?".
And, once again, I found myself reading through the Greenpeace website. Well - that pretty much answers the first question. Greenpeace is the result of lots of "one person"s put together. On Monday they took over a coal power station in Kent, in protest to Gordon Browns seeming "green light" strategy to polluting the planet. That takes some guts. Not only that, it takes a lot of care as well. Greenpeace activists put their life on the line just trying to make the world better for us all. So, maybe you don't fancy doing that? Well, there're plenty of other things you can do. If you were to replace 2 light bulbs in your house with energy efficient ones, not only would you save £30 a year, you'd create 3 cubic tonnes less carbon dioxide every year. So once again, that leaves you on your own. Wrong. Let's say 6 people see this blog, and change their light fittings, already that's 18 tonnes less carbon dioxide. Now, combined, every blog on Blog Action Day, takes around 30 million veiws. Maybe only 1 million of those veiwers will take action on what they read, but still that's a reduction of 3 million cubic tonnes. Gettting the jist now?
Is it really worth it?
I mean, by the time anything serious starts happening, we'll be dead, right?
Wrong.
In the next 5 years we WILL start drastically noticing the effects of climate change.
I suggest, along with the other 6000 bloggers postng today, that we all start taking this seriously. I mean, is it really so much trouble to switch the heating down by a degree, or turn off a light? If we carry on like we do, live will not be so convenient.
Have we already killed our planet?
I'll be blunt here: possibly.
But that doesn't stop us trying to make it better. Perhaps, when we start getting tornados ripping down the thames, or snow falling in Egypt, people might start taking global warming seriously.
People refuse to help with the effort to reduce climate change becuase of "money" (no names mentioned, America) or simply because they can't be arsed. I feel ashamed to be human, if that is indeed what the human race dictates.
Maybe tomorrow, you can walk out of a room smiling, having turned a light off. I know I will.