The Change

I just read some great news today. The Thai government has publicly pledged to end ivory trade in its country!! Okay I'm a bit slow because this was posted on the WWF page a few days ago. But I'm so glad and relieved and my trust in the world has been reinstated... a body of authorities is willing to do something that works against their possibility of profiting monetarily!!

yesterday I scribbled some words about my devastation with the attitude of certain parties in the world because of the global change lecture I attended yesterday. Unfortunately I didnt save the draft so everything's gone now But I shall just scribble up a summary of it again.

Basically Global Change lecture always leaves me depressed because it brings back to me the reality of the plight of the Earth, and the fact that many are reluctant to help. And i don't mean people like us living day to day, only able to help in the smallest ways by recycling and saving whenever we can. I mean the people who can really make a difference. The people with the capital, with the power, with only the lack of determination and conviction.

I was told how companies that believed the state of the world could be changed by implementing solar panels went bankrupt because they did not have sufficient support from the right people. People who have their great ideas shattered because other's can't bear to give up their luxurious lives. They don't want to break their ties with the electric companies, the gas, fuel, oil companies, huge industries that can bring in billions. They don't want to see the Earth crumbling, even when it is. They hide inside their grand homes with their windows pulled tight and the curtains drawn and they don't see what the others see. The others who live among this black fog, the smoke, the smog. The others who are breathing in this evil air, falling ill, dying... They don't see and don't want to see but they can't escape it because someday, those windows are going to have to be opened. And then all that's left would be a black earth, a dark, dark earth...

What's the point of getting all the greens and blues of processed trees when the place you live is just dying? Things can be done, amazing ideas have been drawn out, but the people who can make a change don't want to.

It's true I may not see the whole story, but there is very little to convince one of the reasons why anyone would refuse to invest in power source that's emission-free, cost-free, efficient and most importantly, Earth friendly.

Ice caps are already retreating and glaciers melting so fast that 30-40m are lost each year, football fields of land are being lost to the oceans. Each Year!!!
I just can't bear watching the Earth just die...