The question I keep asking and no one seems to want to answer is “what if they are rightâ€. What if we (humans) are having an effect on the planet which it cannot compensate for? What if we are being given warnings that indicate that something is happening and that our future could be placed at risk?
There is no do over here. This is our home. Not like we can up and move 6 billion people to another planet next door. I am amazed that we are so cavalier about our own future. Nah, I guess I take that back. We as a species have never looked beyond tomorrow. We act on the here and now. I get one body. I try and take care of it as best I can. I eat healthy, exercise because the doctors just might be right that what I do not do now, I will pay for later.
Sure al the scientists might be wrong. Big deal. The big deal will be what if they are right? I do not worry about winning the lottery. If I do great. I do worry about going broke, getting fired, injured… I worry about the bad stuff that can happen. The stuff that can have effects that are irreversible. I do not have kids so I am not too worried. Those of you who have kids, how will you look them in the eyes and tell them that well, we did not believe what we were told and we basically gambled on your future and well…. We lost. Really sorry about that…..bye bye.
Then there is the common sense part of it. How can over 6 billion people, whoa re cutting down most of the old growth forests, paving over huge expanses of land to create cites, burning fuels (wood, fossil… ) eating mass quantities of food, over fishing the seas, dumping natural/man made wastes everywhere….etc. How can this NOT affect the world we live in?
You can call it what ever you want. We are affecting the world we live in. I have two nieces. One has asthma. One parent smokes, the other chews, and yet I still care about their future because they are young and innocent. I recycle, I try and make a little of an impact as I can. I want to be able to look them in the eye and say I tried.
Again…. I ask …….WHAT IF THEY ARE RIGHT?