Global Warming Global Warning

I love the heat. I love going to the beaches in the Philippines in summertime, I love how our country’s tropical-ness sometimes stretches summertime straight into Christmas time when we’re in luck. But here in the city, riding cramped mass transport vehicles and walking on sizzling cemented pavements… the feeling of being under the sun, in the heat of things is very sticky. Seriously, I can’t help but recall Al Gore’s environmental piece on Global Warming and we ain’t got snow down here but the ice caps and glaciers which are melting will change my country’s face radically. Or catastrophically, it will sink many of our 7,100 islands and push the water’s edge deeper into the interior of our bigger islands like Luzon and Mindanao. That prediction isn’t in Al Gore’s docu, but I deduced it from watching the docu. It sent chills up and down my spine as soon as my brain processed this bit of possibility. We’re too small compared to Mother Nature, true, but we now have to think bigger than ourselves. It’s not rocket science but Germany and the US, really big places that contribute the most to the damage causing the intensifying global warming, do not think investing into the environment is good business. So? So we’re effin gonna get it. Kudos to Japan for doing a niftier job at being environmentally-worry-free. And to Brazil for eco-friendly fuelling up. Remember those sci-fi movies of yore? Well, we’re logging on and i-podding and hitech-ing now aren’t we. So in the near future, will Al Gore’s predictions come true to become nightmares for all of us?