Global Warming

All right, I've got to say something about this; this one, oh-so-important topic, the one that the news media has just been eating up over the past while: the weather. That's right, the weather. Now, it's a fairly normal day here, actually quite nice, but it seems that "quite nice" is becoming more rare these days. All over the planet weather is becoming more severe. Long, droughts, harsher winters, stronger hurricanes; People are dying because of lack of rainfall in one place, while too much is flooding towns somewhere else. By now you've probably guessed what I'm going on about. Yes, I want to talk about climate change: Global fucking warming.

Now if you don't know what this global warming thing is, obviously the rock you've been living under has air conditioning. To put it simply, the world is heating up, so polar bears are going to drown, cities will be under water, and everyone is going to fucking die.

Today there is pretty much a consensus that global warming is real. It would be hard to find someone who doesn't agree that things are changing. The one thing that absolutely no one can seem to agree upon is the cause of climate change. It's all the oil companies' fault, it's China and India, it's just a cycle of the Earth; everything causes global warming. Everything but you. That is the one thing about the issue that is common with everyone, and no one seems to realize it. The whole issue of global warming just fucking reeks of this, what will be humanity's fatal flaw, and what we are best at: laziness.

You people bitch, and moan, and whine, and blame everything and it's dog for causing global warming, but you do it all from the nice comfy seats of your goddamn hummers! I hope that $60,000 shoebox was worth it, I really do, because you're driving it off a cliff, and I'm tied and gagged in the back seat. You must realize that once we reach a certain point it will be impossible to turn around, and yet you absolutely refuse to steer away. I have met an extremely small number of people in my life who have actually changed-and I don't mean do the bare minimum and buy a different type of light bulb. There is no easy and convenient way to save the world. Unfortunately, you're going to have to break a sweat.

Now, I obviously feel that Global Warming is man-made, and I can already hear the "This is all natural" people gearing up to try and shoot down my theories, and you know what? Go ahead. You can give me your facts and data, and I'll listen; I?d be the first one to admit that my theory is just that, a theory. I don't really have any numbers to back me up. What I have is but one question, and the only one I would pose to you. What if you're wrong? This planet is our home, and the only one we have. There is nowhere else to go if something happens to Earth. In other words, we very well may be facing our extinction here. Maybe if we change, it will be futile. Maybe this planet has had enough of us and wants us gone, but if our survival is at stake, where's the harm in trying? If you're wrong and we don't do anything, we die. If I'm wrong, honestly what is the worst that could happen? A horizon in Beijing? Rainforests that aren't completely bulldozed?

From the past, we can see that people never act to prevent something until it already has happened. In this case that is not an option. We are facing an ultimatum here: Get off your ass, stop being lazy and stop being so god damn destructive toward this planet or die. It is that black and white. The end will have to be one of those two options, whether you like it or not. So, I ask you, which one do you choose?