Earth Day

Yesterday was Earth Day. From now on, I would prefer that everyday should be Earth Day.

I am a lover of Earth. From outer space, Earth looks a lovely planet, the oceans are landforms are visible. It's a beautiful, beautiful planet. It's the only one we have. Even if they find that Mars or Saturn can be liveable, I would prefer living in Earth.

But now, things are becoming ugly. We fill our atmosphere with smoke and gas. The air we breath, once invisible, is now visible. It's so dirty you can now be able to see it.

You see, solution for Climate Change does not lie on some genius scientists working in the laboratory, finding the solutions for it. The solution lies within each of us living on Earth. The solution for Climate Change is every person's responsibility. We now know the symptoms. We must work on the cure.

When there is a pain in your body, it tells you something about your body. Pain is an indication that there is something wrong. Yet some people tend to ignore them. It will go away, they think. But eventually they die of heart attack, of cancer, of infection.... why? because they didn't listen to what their body is telling them.

The Earth as we know it is changing. We have burned more fuels in the last 80 years than the earth has burned in the last 100 million years! Yet, millions of tons of fuels are still being burned everyday.

A scientific fact: A live frog in a pan filled with water over a heated stove, will eventually boil itself to death. It will not even struggle to get out of it.

We, humankind, are supposedly the most intelligent of all life forms on the Earth. Yet, it's obvious now that our very intelligence is only at par with the frogs. We are burning ourselves to death. And we are not doing anything about it. At least not enough. Like Dr. Frankenstein, we have created a monster. And we can no longer control it.

A parable:

In the beginning there was only Man and animals. But Man was so lonely, and so the animals around him became worried. The bear said to the man: "Why are you so lonely?" , Man replied: "Because I'm not as strong as you". The bear said: "I'll give you then my strength".

But Man was still lonely, and the eagle said:"Why are you so lonely?. Man replied: "Because I'm not as fast as you are". The eagle said: "Well then, i'll give you my agility and speed!"

But as usual, the Man was still lonely. And the owl asked him: "What's wrong my friend?". Man said "I'm lonely becuase I didn't have your intelligence", and the Owl said: "Don't be so sad then, you can have my intelligence"

And the man walked away still not feeling satisfied with all the gifts he had from the animals. The Earth said to the animals: "Look, I'm afraid now. We have given everything we had for Man, but still he's not satisfied. The future will come that we have given him everything, and Man will still not be satisfied".

And that future is now.