Protect it.
Floating on dreams and whispers, girls from a West Bank village cool off in the salt-laden waters of the Dead Sea. With its main tributary, the Jordan, at less than a tenth of its former volume, the inland sea has dropped some 70 feet since 1978. (Paolo Pellegrin, Magnum © National Geographic)
Mount Everest's East Rongbuk Glacier has lost
some 350 vertical feet of ice between August 1921 and October 2008
some 350 vertical feet of ice between August 1921 and October 2008
(David Breashears, © National Geographic)
Climate change.
I know people say it's nature at work and its the natural cycles that bring about these changes. Yes, no one's saying that's not true. Icebergs, for example, they will eventually melt away, die a natural death. But you can't deny the fact that man-made climate change has exacerbated this process. Polar caps are melting at a faster rate. Do we really want our great-great-grand-children (haha.) to see polar bears and penguins living under palm trees? Really? I was rambling to Kris and he said, "Yeah then we'd see them in Pulau Ubin with the tigers!" Heh. Lameface.
I know people say it's nature at work and its the natural cycles that bring about these changes. Yes, no one's saying that's not true. Icebergs, for example, they will eventually melt away, die a natural death. But you can't deny the fact that man-made climate change has exacerbated this process. Polar caps are melting at a faster rate. Do we really want our great-great-grand-children (haha.) to see polar bears and penguins living under palm trees? Really? I was rambling to Kris and he said, "Yeah then we'd see them in Pulau Ubin with the tigers!" Heh. Lameface.
Climate change is happening. This whole global warming thing should be scaring the living daylights out of people, you know. It wouldn't hurt for us to live without the luxury of air-conditioning once in awhile, to take a 10minutes shower instead of a 30minutes water spa, to reuse your plastic bags, to recycle your papers. If everyone thinks, 'I'm only 1 person, what difference would it make?' You can sure as hell be rest assured that no difference would be made. It's all about creating strength in numbers, man. Al Gore couldn't have put it better with the phrase, 'An Inconvenient Truth'. We can make a difference, if only we're willing to accept that little bit of inconvenience to our luxurious lives. So, help out okay. Don't just sit back and say how all these is crap and bs. It's your freaking home.
That said, I need another dosage of mother nature STAT. Need it!
Today's Swedish lesson is on weather,
(because somebody refuses to stop the "i have snow, you don't." taunts. pfft, so not cool.)
(because somebody refuses to stop the "i have snow, you don't." taunts. pfft, so not cool.)
Hur är vädret idag? - How is the weather today?
Det är kallt - It is cold
... varm - warm
... hett - hot
... klart - clear
... vackert - beautiful!
... vindigt - windy
... molnigt - cloudy
... fuktigt - humid
Det snöar! - It's snowing!
Det regnar! - It's raining!
Goodbye.
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