Today (yesterday?) is Blog Action Day '09, and the topic is "Climate Change". What a depressing, yet uplifting topic to blog about!

When you were just small kiddos, did you ever imagined how Earth would look like from space? Guess it would look like this:

And we are absolutely dwarfed by the immerse size of Earth!

What a wonderful world we live in!

Yet, we thoughtlessly pollute the environment. We create things that last forever and throw them away in an instant.

 

We breed animals in inhumane conditions, stacked up high like packed boxes. We clear acres of forests to grow lots of crops, and feed these animals for months. Just to slaughter them for a single meal.

And scoff when someone remarks about the sheer waste of energy producing so much food for so little gain.

Sigh...

How egoistic can we be? Somewhere between all the debate about global warming, we lost sight of the forest for the trees. The key issue is not about whether global warming is a natural phenomenon. It is about sustainable development.

We want our next generations to have a decent quality of life. We want them to see how beautiful this world is. We want them to experience snow falling softly around them. We want them to see the beautiful corals in the deep blue sea. We want them to be able to see the stars, and imagine how small they are if they look down to Earth.

Eat less meat. Dispose less garbage. Waste less paper. Waste less electricity. Recycle, reuse, reduce. Just live in moderation. Is that really so difficult?