Human being created by Got is destroying the earth created by God. We human being should know this truth. It must not be allowed.
“Which is heavier, gold or the globe?“ Sarcastically Mr. Al Gore asked us this question in the movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” How can people compare gold and the globe? The earth is apparently getting warm and heading toward destroying. Though there are a lot of phenomenon of global warming occurring、 we don’t want to face the truth. There are yet some scientists who claim that the global warming is a kind of swindle. We can’t recognize how important the earth is. Or we are just pretending as if we don’t recognize that, because this truth is inconvenient for the growth of economy?
Do you know that a small island called Tuvalu is going to go under the ocean caused by sea level rise in the near future? Many people on the earth do not know even the existence of this island. Without being known, this island is about to disappear from the map of the earth. People of this island are living happily long away from the word of the global warming. We are depriving humble happiness from those innocent people. Is it OK that we treat it just like a fire on the other side of the river? Cities and islands must be disappearing under the water one after another from now and on. Phenomenon in Tuvalu is only first stage of cruel disasters.
What if Japan sinks under the water? What if you have to abandon Japan? What if you have to separate from your family, father, mother, sisters, brothers and friends? What if you have to run away from the earth? At this time what would you think?
Who is to blame? Who made this earth like this? It was caused by us human beings. It is said that the main reason of the global warming is the development of the economy. For this development, people have generated huge amount of emission gasses like carbon dioxide. It led the greenhouse effects to the earth. Is this the result of economic growth? Have we been making efforts of developing economy in order to destroy the earth？ No, we must have just been doing that because we believed the development of economy would lead to happiness. However ironically, we have been destroying our own place to live.
There are still a lot of people who think that gold is heavier than the earth. Emission trading is very active. Some countries are producing huge amount of carbon dioxide only for their liver and selling emissions credits to our other countries. Some other countries are trading the emissions credits and getting big profits from the trading. Another country is madly buying the right of emission credits in order to ensure that mandated caps are met, which was promised in the Kyoto protocol. They all are thinking only of their own benefit. They are too selfish, aren’t they. I feel very sad that they can not understand how important the earth is.
Is the earth only for human beings? We have to recognize that we human being are snuffing out many lives. There are many species living on the earth. The number of endangered species reached around 16,000 and this year about 200 species were newly added to this list, including coral. The size of hurricanes and typhoons is getting bigger and bigger every year. On the other hand, forest fires and droughts have recently occurred happened very frequently in many places of the world. All these are man-made disasters. We are destroying not only the place we live but also places other species live.
The earth is priceless, so we have to protect it. Ｉremember one scene of “Planet of the Apes”. George Tailor, the leading character、had time-slipped to the future of hundreds of years from now and arrived on an unknown planet. The planet was completely ruined and it was dominated by monkeys. While he was running away from the monkeys’ world, he found the Statue of Liberty half-buried in the sand. That let him know the destroyed place, which he thought was an unknown planet, was obviously the earth. He was devastated and mourned while hitting the ground, saying “Oh, my God. I’m back. We finally really did it.” He found out that people destroyed the earth by their own hands.
At the moment the earth is facing to many crises, such as nuclear bombs, war, starvation, increasing population, and global warming. We each have to think what we can do to prevent it. We must do something to rescue the earth. We have to sustain the earth by some means for the future, for our descendants、for other animals, for plants, and above all, for us.
