Weather or Not

It’s raining its pouring
The old man is snoring
He has no clue
Of what’s about to ensue
Wacky weather is touring
Globally!
I follow a few weather reporters, one of them being stormchaser4850, on twitter. I also, on a daily basis, look out for various articles pertaining to the environment, weather patterns etc. The last few months have been quite scary.
Ash clouds over Paris now over Australia, earthquakes in Japan and recently near the coast of Nicaragua, tsunamis, floods, heat waves!!!
Mother Nature is really making her point! With this whole end of the world rumor going around it’s a scary thought -8 hour earthquake- phew! And not just focused in one place but all over the globe. Threats of solar flares, volcanic eruptions and a 2/3rd decrease in human population globally! My question is… how do I become part of that 1/3rd? Is there like a ticket I need to buy or maybe a lucky draw or something… it’s scary.
We deal with this logic on a daily basis but somehow as individuals fail to see it from a global perspective and that logic is, the things we do today will have repercussions tomorrow. Hence we make sure we finish all our work on Friday so that we can take Saturday off, or fill up fuel on the eve of a fuel hike or pre-book movie shows so that you don’t miss the show. We are proactive about everything but when it comes to Death and The End of The World, we somehow become complacent and thing ‘not today’ or ‘can’t happen in my lifetime’.
Question is why not! We always think “that can never happen to me but can happen to someone”… until we become that ‘someone’. To somebody you will always be someone else and to everybody we will always be just a nobody until somebody screws up and everybody knows who somebody is and nobody cares because it’s someone else.
If that made any sense at all it was meant too if not, water under the bridge, move on.
Responsibility, that’s the key word. Walk instead of driving short distances, use public conveyance etc are all things we can do to ensure we increase that gap of 2/3rd to maybe nil. Avoid Armageddon totally if possible. There is a movie I saw once, a short documentary called 4yearGo (youTube it, it’s pretty awesome) they say in a span of four years we can do so much to ensure much more. Four years to ensure a greener planet, better lifestyles etc so on and more.
I say why wait 4 years… why can’t that sense of responsibility take over our sub-conscience now? Why can’t we make small changes to our lifestyle now? Is it convenience or lack of it that we do things that may benefit us now but in the long run will harm the larger picture?
Governments being elected promise better power, electricity and food they promise better job opportunities, higher wages and better lifestyle and on the basis of those promises we elect. Yes infrastructure is important, yes growth is for the benefit of society. But, what about the surroundings, environment, ecology what about all those things, we ourselves don’t care why should governments?
Sometimes I feel the human capability to adapt is a curse. Our brains don’t try to fix problems they go around the problem or come up with another innovation to avoid the problem… unfortunately the problem still exists. For example using axes to chop trees took too much time, hence the chainsaw (problem doubled).
We adapt to heat, cold, excess rain, no rain, storms etc with better AC’s, heaters and other paraphernalia that make our lives ‘happy’. We adapt… we don’t exist anymore. Everyday our environment poses a new problem in front of us and instead of accepting the problem and trying to rectify it we work our way around it. Our management aka government needs to have this foresight to lead people in the right direction and the government that does that is the one I’d vote for with my eyes closed.
The Government banned smoking in public places, yay! Now what? How about banning the use of your car if the distance you have to go is within 5Km, or permitting only the use of cycles or electric scooters for distances within 10km. Offices to provide cabs for meetings etc. I mean it’s not a fool proof plan-of-action but it’s an idea? And people who can should.
It would be hypocritical of me to conclude this epiphany with a “someone needs to stand up and take action” because our problems, human nature, always has to be someone else’s!!!
Therefore I will go out on a limb here and say that I will practice what I preach and since I’m one of the people who can… I will not use my car for distances shorter than 5km and if possible will start cycling to office too.
That’s my bit… what’s yours? Remember it doesn’t have to be anything dramatic or big… start small for the bigger picture.