Thursday, January 8, 2009
Sunrise is such a beautiful thing that some of us quite frankly ignore with our busy lives as we scurry to work to keep up with the bills and rent. But for once I really sat down and thought about nature. It was about 6:00 am. and I was just in time for the sunrise. I watched the sun slowly come out of the horizon as it sent golden beams on the dew covered grass making them sparkle like crystals. The birds darted to and fro singing their merry tunes as they played. I looked up at the sky and daydreamed just gazing at the beautiful picture each soft cloud painted against the canvas of the blue sky. And my neighbor's rabbit kept chewing away at the green grass making it look so delicious. I almost knelt down to eat it but sanity took it's toll on me. Here in the Caribbean it is truly a sight to see.
As I sat there admiring nature. I heard the faint, rumbling sound of a car. It passed right in front of my house and I looked at it a little annoyed since it disturbed my peace. As I kept looking I realized that it was emitting smoke which stained the road. Then the thought came to my head. Just what on earth are we humans doing. All of a sudden I felt my eyes open up and I truly saw the results of our knowledge. Here was a car polluting the fresh morning air and scaring away animals. And I was sure that this car had killed a bird or two while speeding at 120 km/h.
Because of this pollution our ozone layer and the very same sun that I was admiring had become a killer. How many died from skin cancer? How many died from heat stroke? Because of this our oxygen is now being cut short as more plants are dying. Before the only people that really had problems with breathing were smokers. Now everyone is technically a smoker when they breathe in the harmful gas called carbon monoxide. The smoke is not the least bit of our problems. These major oil companies throw all their toxic waste into our rivers and seas. Killing fishes and polluting our water. Now you can't even take a drink from the river because there is no more river. Now, all I see is a nasty, black drain of dead fish, oil and garbage.
Do you think that nature causes all the floods? Many of times I have seen flooding in towns due to garbage filled gutters. Many of times I've seen landslides because of some smart person building a road on the slope of a mountain. Don't you think that it's a little strange to see teens getting infected with cancer. And we wonder what causes it. I'll tell you what causes it. It's the cell phones and the laptops. Have you ever held a cell phone near to a camera or any other sensitive electrical device? The device goes crazy. Can you imagine what it is doing to our brains?
What about deforestation, acid rain and global warming? These are all products of man. You don't see a monkey building some kind of coconut bomb that would wipe out half of his monkey friends' population in a second. You don't see him kidnapping a baby for a banana. No!!! And we all do this because of greed. Greed for power, for money to buy all these fancy cars and phones.
Technology has indeed made us more comfortable. But at what price people? For the price of our lives, our very own humanity? Maybe we were better off swinging on vines and yelling all kinds of crazy mumbo jumbo. There are cars and other things that we can use that are environmentally friendly but those top guys would not be making all the money. That's why they don't promote it. Let's make a change people. Let's go green.
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