The Inconvenient Truth: Are we doomed?

        I never heard of global warming before watching the movie, The Inconvenient Truth. After watching it, my eyes were opened to so many realities which were none of my concern beforehand. Issues like increasing temperature and increasing sea levels only made me go "so what?" when I was a kid; little did i know, these issues would be faced my generation and generations to come.

        This is the world that I live in now.

Polar bears have no more ice to walk on. Some drown in search of land
rest on.

         My parents tell me stories about them, when they were younger; how they could go to the nearby stream and dive into it. Or play around under the heat of the sun and never get burned. But now, we tell a different story. Rivers and streams, filled with the trash of decades; the extreme heat of the sun beating down the nape of our backs, giving us all types of skin imperfections and sicknesses; the dark smog covering the morning horizon. This is the reality that we now face, and it is a worsening reality that we may have to face in the future if we do not do anything.

         Some people are indifferent, ignorant even, to the issue of global warming and climate change; debates of politicians that tackle the issue of global warming lead to nothing; budgets, which should be for the improvement of the environment, are misused here and there; pollution in the air, land, sea.

         What has happened to our blue planet? What ever happened to loving our mother earth, the giver of life and sustenance? What happens if we never do improve our current situation? Will we let our children, or the children of our children, suffer in the world we enjoyed?

          Something needs to be done now, little things that we think wouldn't matter. Avoiding all types of pollution may help, but it should be on a global scale. We need to act now to save our earth. After all, this little blue planet is the only one that can sustain life, why would we take it for granted?