It's been on alot of people's minds lately, and I think for the first time in a long time the consensus from almost everyone is Global Warming is indeed happening.
They've been talking about it the last few days on the Radio here locally, and I appreciate it, as I've been a firm activist of saving the world for sometime. I haven't always felt this way, but when I had my kids, when I realized that there might be a remote possibility that the world we live in, might be destroyed by my actions, I would try to change. It began with simple things like switching our light switches in our home to motion switches. With the first 3 switches I ended up saving $30.00 a month in electricity. We've added fluorescent bulbs in our lighting fixtures, and water saver nozzles on our sinks and showers. Our bills have gone down, our showers stay warm even after several people showering, and most of all we reduced the resources our family uses.
In the last few months, I've learned about
electric conversions for my combustion car. The cost is significant, but not unreasonable, especially in light of the savings in gas, and more importantly the world. I'm convinced now, this is the path I should follow.
My beliefs were firmly reinforced when I sat down and watched Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" last night. It's not as if anything in the movie is new if your already acquainted with the situation, but it's the first time someone has laid it out in a way that will hopefully convince the non-believer, the skeptic, and the uneducated. It's a wake up call, that our time here on earth may not be measured in centuries, or decades but in only a few years. It's the "canary in the coal mine", as Gore says. It's the warning, the final warning that if we don't change our ways, if we don't stop the process of Global Warming, our home, our earth will change, many lives will die, and our lineage, our existence is in question.
Perhaps it's time to make a change, because the risks of doing nothing are so great?
