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Loading ...As we move closer to the penultimate month in the Baha’i calendar, the month wherein the birds, species by species, begin to announce the glad tidings that the month of fasting is approaching, I have noticed that this is going to be the second year in my life that there has been no winter.
The first was in the 1980s (it was a freak year), but this time, moving from autumn to spring with nary a snow, I suspect that this may be a worrying trend; one that is likely to repeat itself with increasing frequency. Goodbye to the winters! The consequence of this is horrifying. For instance, a hedgehog will wake up in January and starve to death. Entire ecosystems will be disrupted. (Not that very many people care, as a recent discussion regarding vegetarianism on the BBC website suggested).
One of the most haunting images in my imagination is regarding the polar bear, who, it is claimed, will face extinction if the summer Arctic sea-ice disappears in the next 50 years. I imagine starving animals leaping from ice-lump to lump, the lumps increasingly small and increasingly disparate. Never mind whether London will be flooded by the new sea level, or whether there will be no more beaches; don’t think too much about the additional disaster that might come if that iceshelf in Antartica fell into the sea (there might be a real Waterworld), or if all the ice in Greenland melts; and don’t think too much about the theoretical possibility that rising sea temperatures might cause the seabed to release its stores of carbon, leading eventually to a runaway greenhouse effect like they had on Venus a while back. No, the only image that matters is the one of the Little Dead Polar Bear; because if this doesn’t worry you (and it worries almost no one), then predictions of all the other disasters that might befall us cannot possibly mean a thing.
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honestly, I care about the starving hedgehog and the extinction of the animals but I don’t worry because I feel there is nothing I can do about it.What can we, ordinary feeble people, possibly do? People in Africa, and in Asia ?
As childish as this will sound >> I want to express that I am actually angry, I am angry at you guys. I should not be feeling guilt at the death of the polar bear.You should.Most of the world can’t do much to change the situation so It is up to you, people in the West.YOU should be worried, because only you have the resources to actually fix/save it.