The Day After Tomorrow
Did you happen to see The Day After Tomorrow? It was a really bad movie about global warming (and then a sudden glacial age, but I didn’t get that). It was a fantastic (I mean, difficult to believe) story that made us all laugh because of how fast the global warming was depicted to occur.
Well, those laughs can now become tears...
I live in the city where the Kyoto Protocol was signed (and agreed). A total of 153 countries (accounting for over 61% of global emissions) ratified the treaty thereafter, with the notable exception of the USA (They signed the Protocol here in Kyoto, but then decided not to ratify it, because it would cause much harm to their industries, and because it was not proved that there was a global warming happening...)
Now, after the tragic events at New Orleans that follow a series of terrible hurricanes hitting North America, after a El Niño getting worse year by year, after the glaciers in Peru that are retreating 20 meters every year (yes, 20 meters every year), after finding that the North Polar Cap has shrunk more than 20 percent since 1979, can the USA, Australia and all the countries that have not ratified the treaty, continue doing nothing? Can they really keep saying that the world is not changing? That it’s not getting warmer year after year? That economical reasons are beyond world climate health?
For our good, I hope not.
Please, ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Maybe you won’t know how good it was, but your grandchildren will.
Well, those laughs can now become tears...
I live in the city where the Kyoto Protocol was signed (and agreed). A total of 153 countries (accounting for over 61% of global emissions) ratified the treaty thereafter, with the notable exception of the USA (They signed the Protocol here in Kyoto, but then decided not to ratify it, because it would cause much harm to their industries, and because it was not proved that there was a global warming happening...)
Now, after the tragic events at New Orleans that follow a series of terrible hurricanes hitting North America, after a El Niño getting worse year by year, after the glaciers in Peru that are retreating 20 meters every year (yes, 20 meters every year), after finding that the North Polar Cap has shrunk more than 20 percent since 1979, can the USA, Australia and all the countries that have not ratified the treaty, continue doing nothing? Can they really keep saying that the world is not changing? That it’s not getting warmer year after year? That economical reasons are beyond world climate health?
For our good, I hope not.
Please, ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Maybe you won’t know how good it was, but your grandchildren will.
1 Comments:
Wow, this is the most thoughtful writing I ever read from you. I couldnt agree more with you.
It's time for the Americans to really think who are they voting for.
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Nightraveller, at 11:04 PM
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