Waiting... For a Better Climate...

Meine Meinung. Wie gesagt, ich wollte eigentlich gar nicht so 'politisch' werden - aber nachdem ich mir vor kurzem ëin paar Infos über solche Wirtschaftsriesen wir Goldman Sachs angesehen habe, da laufen einem Gänsehäute über den Rücken und man fragt sich, wo das enden soll. Wirtschaft ist wichtig, aber völlig ungezügelte Profitgier ist schädlich. Diese Leute sägen an dem Ast auf dem sie sitzen - und reissen alle mit. Paul hat sicherlich nicht ganz unrecht, wenn er meint, dass irgendwann kein Hahn mehr nach uns krähen wird - aber den Zeitpunkt sollte man doch etwas hinausschieben, wenn es geht. Man möchte den Planeten ja nicht als zweiten Mars hinterlassen. - Es gab irgendwann eine Doku im ZDF über den Ölsandabau in Kanada - das treibt einem die Tränen (auch der Wut) in die Augen. Die wissen nicht einmal, wo sie ihre Chemikalien lassen sollen, die sie tonnenweise produzieren. Und als ich zuletzt nachsah, hatten sie schon ein Gebiet so gross wie Bayern zur Wüste gemacht... Stimmt nicht ganz - ich habe gerade nachgesehen - es geht inzwischen um Gebiete doppelt so gross wie Bayern:
www.extremnews.com/lifestyle/fernsehen/75781268ba57a88

Hier der Film vom ZDF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0i88OKU2I8

Die Welt kann sehr gut ohne uns existieren und weint der Menschheit keine Träne nach!
Wir beeinflussen den Zeitpunkt, in welche Richtung auch immer!

Such a sad picture.

CO2 levels have risen 40% since industrialization started, and in Finland, where I live, temperatures have already risen more than two degrees celsius in the past 166 years. Yet Wall Street Journal released an editorial last week denying the whole climate change. They reasoned - this time - that scientists do not actually approve on climate change, because only 1% of the scientific research papers explicitly say "climate change is caused by man." Of course, neither do they say that "earth orbits sun", "earth is not flat" nor "man descends from ape". (Yes, there are lots of creationists in US who deny evolution as well!)

Murdoch's Wall Street Journal uses lawyers logic, where there is no ethics inbuilt, only promotion of short-term profit for its interest groups. With our WSJ-like, first world liberal economics rapidly spreading all over the globe, I think polar bear has one single chance: the zoo. Even if we stopped puffing our carbon on-air right now, the benefits could be seen only in a century or so. And we won't stop, the WSJ's of this world will see to that.

From the standpoint of mother earth we are actually doing quite good: it will only take her a few thousand years to recuperate after we have annihilated ourselves. We'll just need to leave the zoo doors open before we go.

Yes, this sounds so grim. And who knows: if we've been able to have all these revolutions - including the industrial one - in the past, maybe we'll be able to have an environmental revolution as well. It will be hard, though, because revolutions have never been started for someone, let alone something else, they have always started for the self. But revolutions are known to have been started to save homes.

"So have you guys picked a new planet yet?", God tweeted a few weeks ago. Let's hope we never will, and forget Mars missions and alike as well, and start calling this tiny blue sphere our home.

Thank you very much for your comment, Spotomy! I once talked to a young PhD geographer, and he was of the opinion that climate change was a 'make-up' by geographers who want to save their jobs. But I think he didn't realize that all these online-articles that deny climate change are the WSJs of this world. I have seen the glaciers in the polar region, and it is sad to see how they regress. And the polar bears who sit on these sad and bare islands. Our guide said that ten years ago it looked quite different there. And he was shocked himself.
The native Americans are right when they say that the white man will only learn that he can't eat money when he has destroyed his surroundings. We need solutions and we need them quickly. No one wants to live in caves again... But the money-makers of this world alreday count on the resources under the ice in order to destroy more instead of finding new clean possibilities. I wonder where this will end. There is no 'Plan B' for our planet. -- (And no one speaks of the sand oil mining anymore...)
Who knows, probably we come from Mars...? The latest horrible news would support this theory.