Environment and Global Politics

With all the shows, movies, and documentaries portraying and presenting all the adverse effects of global warming to our planet, especially the 'Inconvenient Truth' which is written and starred by Al Gore, environmental concerns have spread globally at a very fast rate. These shows made many people to be familiar with the issue of global warming and how it affects our planet. Although scientists present many scientific evidences and ways on how to reverse global warming, the people and their governments still pay almost no attention to it and take little action on solving it. It is quite ironic, isn't it? The people want to save their planet, yet they take little action on it. Some say that the culprit of all these is 'carboniferous capitalism' with all the carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases produced by all the different corporations around the world, especially oil companies that have oil refineries which produce so much carbon emissions. At this rate, all the trapped greenhouse gases in our planet will eventually destroy our ozone layer, which protects us from harmful sun rays and etc.

Some people claim that there are safer products and environment-friendly ways to produce those products. By environment-friendly, what do they mean by that? Are they really sure that it is not a work of capitalism as well? How sure are they that it is really 'environment-friendly' as they claimed those products to be? What are the products that are good for our environment? Are there really such? Who is any one to say what is good for our environment? I think the issue is not about our world 'dying', but the condition getting worse for HUMANS. It is not that the Earth is dying, but turning into a hostile environment for human beings. It has always been about human beings. It is always about 'us'. We are programmed to be selfish. We think that our race, the human race or homosapiens race, is the most superior race in this world, eventually making us think that we can do 'anything' we want in 'our' planet. The fact that people are not doing something about global warming tells that human beings are so selfish that they are 'busy' doing what they want, or pleasuring themselves, instead of taking action on an issue so important to them. On the other hand, some people claim that the root cause of climate change is the slow shifting of the Earth's polarity. As time goes by, the North Pole and South Pole change their positioning, leading to drastic climate change as we know it.

To wrap it all up, global warming is a complicated issue. After all, it is not only the humans that are affected by this phenomenon but also all the other different species. When all these changes have stabilized, we might all be surprised that the human race has survived and has adapted with all other new species that have adapted as well. If Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution is true, then other species that adapt fast will get to survive these conditions. At this rate, other species that adapt slowly to rapid change of weather conditions and other hostilities will most likely die and go extinct.