Mother Nature

Yesterday I saw the program – The Great Warming in Pearl channel. It is a documentary about global warming and natural disaster.

Environmental protection is no longer an avant gaude idea, it is an essential ethnic value which should be tattooed in everyone mind. I’ve read a short ‘scientific’ story when I was very young. It talked about how a kid in 1986 met another kid from 21st century. The future kid told this little boy the planet is deteriorating, in the future world, there is no more smooth spotless white paper because of the deforestation. He also exclaimed that the sky is covered by fog and pollution because of the serious gas emission from factories and vehicles. The meaning behind this fable is very clear.

One of my textbooks stated that in the very soon future, a great number of ‘environmental refugees’ will be appeared. They are the victims of various kinds of natural disasters, such as tsunami, hurricane, drought, flooding and landslide, etc. It seems that all these destructions cannot be avoided, but actually we human being contributes a lot. We damage the nature for our own good, to violate the balance of this complicated yet sophisticated ecosystem, enormous amount of species extinct in unbelievable fast pace, but we are still deluded by the economic development and selfish greed.

How come we obsess so much to GDP growth, even it is just 0.75%? How come we ignore the problem of uneven distribution of wealth and resource? Do we know that some prophecies or ‘scientific fiction’ about the environmental nightmare we had created are already appearing on everyday news?