Global Warming - food for thought
While driving through town I’ve notice some disturbing things. (every day)
The City council and Schools watering parks and fields at mid day! Now how do you explain to the government -who has the statistics about water shortage in the country- that one should only water plants when the Sun is NOT in the sky?
And these are all adults making this decision!
Pollution coming from trucks, construction vehicles, 4x4 bakkies and huge vehicles- leaving a trail of CO2 behind them in the air... Commercial and housing developments removing old (80year old) trees and grass lands, to be replaced with bricks and paving... People buying generators for watching rugby next to the waters... Drinking beer, leaving the glass bottles and paper to the fish...
Street lights and commercial lighting pointing upwards at night causing light pollution and wasting electricity... People leaving lights on during the day, when not at home... (Are they expecting a day long Solar eclipse?)
People are buying more cars, using up more fuel, emitting more CO2. (yes, yes it’s “unleaded” – it’s still emitting CO2!) Dripping taps, burst underground water pipes...
Thank you South Africa! You’re removing the Oxygen and stuffing up the habitat for your children! Not even to mention extinction of animals and plants
Most of the warning signs of a few years ago are beyond alarming status... And yet we continue to be “humans” (Not only are we self destructive, but we‘re like a Black hole, destroying everything around us!)
The result: Increasing global temperatures in the atmosphere, Ozone layer decreasing- again!
It’s becoming a sick Planet... Of which we’re NOT the cure but the cause...
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Africa facing flood crisis
by Staff Writers
Dakar (AFP) Sept 18, 2007
Forecasters were predicting Tuesday further downpours in the coming days over much of Africa, where at least 270 people have already died from flooding and one million are affected. |
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Outside View: Ozone hits defense industry
By Tatyana Sinitsyna
Moscow (UPI) Sep 18, 2007
Having signed the Montreal Protocol 20 years ago, on Sept. 16, 1987, the world agreed to renounce the industrial use of substances depleting the ozone layer. Like many other countries, Russia has honored its commitments under this protocol. But has it all been worth it? |
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Satellites Witness Lowest Arctic Ice Coverage In History
by Staff Writers
Paris, France (EAA) Sep 18, 2007
The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage - a long-sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable. In the mosaic image, created from nearly 200 images acquired in early September 2007 by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument aboard ESA's Envisat satellite, the dark gray colour represents the ice-free areas while green represents areas with sea ice.
Envisat ASAR mosaic of the Arctic Ocean for early September 2007, clearly showing the most direct route of the Northwest Pssage open (orange line) and the Northeast passage only partially blocked (blue line). The dark gray colour represents the ice-free areas, while green represents areas with sea ice. Credits: ESA |
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Climate change tops future humanitarian challenges: Annan
by Staff Writers
Geneva (AFP) Sept 17, 2007
Former UN chief Kofi Annan warned Monday that climate change was likely to be the most urgent humanitarian challenge in the future, highlighting some one million people hit by recent flooding in Africa. |
Now Is Time for Non-Violent Earth Revolution
That begins by stopping ancient forest logging, ending burning of coal and reducing aviation
Here is excerpt from most recent Earth Meanders personal eco-essay: There are times in human history where obligations to truth, humanity and being take precedent over personal safety, consumption and comfort. Now is one such moment. The time has come for non-violent, direct societal and personal revolutionary action to save the Earth. For the Earth, humanity and our sister species to survive and flourish; awareness raising and reformist greenwashing must give way to wide scale civil disobedience adequate to peacefully bring about sufficient social change to save the Earth and all being. This meander calls for all bright green environmentalists to emphasize aggressive ecological truth telling, non-violent direct action and a life of rich voluntary simplicity. |
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Yet again we are warned that climate change and increasing population will cause massive starvation [more | search]. It is appalling how few people are aware that soil, land and even the atmosphere's waste absorption potential are finite resources. The root cause of climate change and virtually all aspects of the global ecological crisis is too many people consuming beyond the carrying capacity of ecosystems to absorb and regenerate from their impact. The population bomb has exploded and some 6.5 billion people now live on a planet that can probably only support well one billion or less (the population about 125 years ago). How this grotesque overshooting of the biosphere's ecological systems is unwound will have profound impacts... |
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A dead reef in the Seychelles. |
Global warming may have permanently damaged reefs
The effects of global warming upon coral reefs have been more devastating than previously believed, according to the first report to show the long-term impact of rising temperatures on fish and invertebrate life.
According to a 50,000 square metre study of 21 sites on the inner islands of the Seychelles undertaken in 1994 and 2005, large areas of coral reef and the organisms that live there, may have been permanently lost due to global warming.
The study, which was undertaken by an international team of biologists, is the first to show the long-term effects of the 1998 heatwave which caused sea temperatures in the Indian Ocean to rise so high that they killed more than 90% of the corals in the inner Seychelles.
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How much more pictures and statistics or facts do you need to get you going the Green way?
What are you doing to save your Planet?
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