it's official, we're all gonna die!!!

yo, sonia and i watched "an inconvenient truth" this weekend. it's a film by al gore laying out a case for global warming that is both fascinating and disturbing. there are things in life that you just cannot argue with.

anyways, al lays out the most logical and scientifically sound argument in defense of global warming that i have ever heard (not that i've really searched out this info much before). he proves it with many many years of scientific data, especially trends in temperature and their direct corrolation to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. it's astonishing and completely irrefutable.

what remains to be seen is the lasting impact of such a predicament, but from what i see, the outcome is not very good. perhaps this is what the bible speaks about when it says that there will be an increase in natural phenomenon when the end is near. maybe i should build a CO2 making machine or breathe deeper to speed his coming! LOL, just kidding.

so the problem is evident. our systemic CO2 creation around the world, particularly in the United States, is causing us some serious ecological problems. the gradual increase in temperature worldwide causes problems like glacier melting in the ice caps, which could cause a 20 foot increase in the worldwide water level placing large parts of india, shanghai, and the united states under water (buh-bye world trade center memorial). it causes more frequent and more powerful storms, especially hurricanes (can you say katrina?) since more melting+hotter earth=more evaporation and warmer waters=more fuel for hurricanes=...whatevers you get the point.

the point is that we are in for some rough times. we are exhausting and abusing our earth, and nature can only bend so far for the un-natural.

so now what? should we all trade in our gas vehicles for horse drawn carriages? should we forego our heaters and get naked and snuggle for warmth?

perhaps we should. but we also cannot avoid recognizing the largest contributors to the problem that if regulated, would make a much larger impact worldwide than me being on foot patrol.

our corporations are allowed to contaminate our earth with very little regulation. maybe we should do something about that. i understand that the cost of those things are going to be passed down to the consumer level. it's a price we as a people need to weigh and decide if we are willing to pay.

these companies make billions upon billions (some of them at least). they should spend a little of that cash making their processes more environmentally friendly.

i fear that gabriel will be my age someday and the great barrier reef will be dead. the ice caps will be melted. hundreds of species of animals will be extinct, the fat cat being one of them since we all know they can't fend for themselves (sorry bob).

it's sad. seriously, it is.

the first time i dove a reef in cozumel, i looked at sonia and tried to communicate to her that i was experiencing something spiritual. it was beautiful, serene, foreign. the creation of god is so beautiful and it reminded me that god is great and his power is beyond comprehension. it reminded me that god's great compassion goes beyond us as humans and extends to even the ray's and little fishies 80 feet below sea level for which god created an incredibly intricate and complicated ecosystem from which to feed them with. god's creation was good.

but not for long...thanks to all of us.