Day in and day out, new lakes of water are emerging, mountains glaciers and the tow icy polars are melting, strong unusual storms like Hurricane Katrina are menacing the earth, and varieties of species are at risk of extinction. The earth is evidently in an emergency case. However, everybody is calling to be green.” Being green is all the rage with technology companies these days” (New York Times, July 4, 2007). When one asks about the cause of all these catastrophes, the most difficult answer to give is “us” human beings.
When money talks, human’s understanding of dangers such as global warming becomes dependent on how much his or her wage is rising up. Scientific research have demonstrated in more than once that human’s over consumption of gas and heat, the release of carbon dioxide, burning forests and other forms of environment pollution have a central roles in raising the temperature of the earth’s surface. However, because of their selfishness, some people are still arguing: Since dinosaurs disappeared naturally, why don’t we consider what’s happening to the earth as a kind of natural change too?! Global warming, therefore, seems to be always an abstract phenomenon. Unnfortunately, a lot are still unaware of its danger. Otherwise nobody would have thought in this selfish and dull way.
Although it is believed that dinosaurs’ extinction was caused by a giant asteroid crash into the earth, it is evident that the climate change of nowadays is due to a more dangerous asteroid called human being (Al Gore, May 31, 2006). Obviously, it is high time companies pretending to endorse the environment by planting trees or calling for green under the motto of “green movement” to stop this lie as long as they do not change their products type. Despite the efforts os some environmental organizations in addition to the interference of some prominent men in the world, such as Al Gore or Tony Blair, with programs and suggestions still a lot should be done.The earth is really in “crisis” while solutions are really available. Although it is hard to change one's idea by force unless he himself is apt to that, in the case of our planet earth critical situation, forcing awareness would be totally justifiable.
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