Global Warming

I've been watching Channel News Asia's documentaries on global warming. It's only now that I'm starting to get a little worried. I stress on the word 'little' cos I think most people think the same way, that global warming is a slow process, until the Earth becomes deep fried with the Sun's deathly rays, most of us will be long dead. But the process is speeding up. It's kind of scary, you know, the fact that most people don't give a fuck about the Earth they live on. In maybe 20 - 30 years, the sea level will rise by 7 metres. And that's quite a lot, you know, living in a country like Singapore. Go check out the Singapore River, that's the sea level.

Global warming is caused by the thinning of the ozone layer, which is the layer of atmosphere which blocks out most the heat emitted by the Sun. Now there's already a huge hole in the ozone layer, and this is causing the Earth to heat up. The icy cold places like the North Pole and Antarctica are heating up, too, causing the ice to melt rapidly. And the shocking thing is, this might gradually lead to the extinction of polar bears. The animal lover that I am, well, I love polar bears. Anyway, with the ice melting, which means that there are less ice, which means that polar bears can no longer wait at ice holes in the ice for seals to come up and breathe. See, seals use these holes to breathe, and that's when polar bears grab their chance and seize their meals. With less ice around, polar bears have to go into the icy water to catch seals now, resulting in more excercising and less food for the bears, resulting in polar bears getting thinner, resulting in extinction, cos skinny female polar bears can't give birth. And they are really getting slimmer! I mean, polar bears used to look to fat and cuddly and furry right. Now they just look long. Long and skinny. That's sad.

If you think you're not contributing to the warming of the Earth, you're wrong. Almost everything we do contributes to global warming. Turning on the lamp, washing our clothes in the washing machine, driving home... Everything. The Earth is heating up gradually, every minute, every second. And it's so... inevitable.