It's 2.00am
and I am dog tired but I can't sleep. I have been out tonight with my two dear
Spanish friends Eduardo and his wife Conchita. They are passing through
Singapore on their way to China. They are on a stop over. Eduardo is a
Professor of Environmental Science and Connie is a Marine Biologist. They
devote their entire lives to lecturing on the effects of global pollution and
the chronic and toxic effects that man is inflicting on our planet.
My head is
spinning with the facts and figures that Ed and Connie have been telling me.
Our planet is dying and Climate Change is an indisputable reality. The oceans
are warming and sea levels are rising. Entire species of marine life are being
rendered extinct by the saturation of biocides and pesticides that are leeching
our lands. Toxic industrial waste and effluent is flooding into the great
estuaries on all of the major continents and the burning of fossil fuels is
choking the very air that we breathe. The ancient and vast forests of the
Amazon are still being stripped bare by the thousands of acres each day.
We are killing
the planet on which we live.
Connie and Ed
lobby Governments and Captains of Industry all around the world to try and convey
this message but they told me tonight that it is probably too late and no-one
is listening anyway. No-one of any note. They told me that even if the supposed
super industrial nations like China and India and the United States of America
could be convinced to stop their polluting right now it is likely that this
earth upon which we live may not be able to recover.
Too much
damage may already have been done.
I worry not
for myself but for my children - and for my children's children. What sort of
world will they inherit?
I can't
sleep.
I
am drowning in despair.
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