Global warming!

Not even ten years ago, only a bunch of scientists were worried about it alongside with a handful of super bright politicians but now, even among the most retarded leaders in the world, there is no doubt the danger we’re facing and if there is a debate, it’s more about the effectiveness of the methods proposed by Kyoto protocol, not with the fact that Global warming is real and it’s damn serious! Well, maybe except Mr. Bush who still believes in Apocalypse more than he does in Global warming! (Although the second one is not much far from a Jesusless version of the first one!)

So, why nothing’s happening?

The fact is, although the threat is serious, and it’s getting more serious by the minutes, any major effort to reduce Green house gases by considerable amount, will lead to both dramatic changes in our life style and visible economical slow down and since most of the countries who produce the major portion of the green-house gases are being ruled democratically, no political party is willing to risk its popularity by implementing regulations which would create unemployment, higher taxes, inflation and major life style changes but eventually would save our planet from a total disaster!

I believe the only possible way is to educate people to an extent in which, not only they ask the measures to be imposed, but they punish those who don’t have a solid program to tackle the issue, by not voting for them.

As soon as the politicians feel that people do care about it and they are ready to accept the consequences, they certainly will act accordingly. At last, nobody is so anxious to see the end of the world so soon! (Sorry dear witnesses of Jehovah! I totally forgot about you!)

Public awareness in England, forced the somehow reformed Conservatives (who traditionally don’t care about these kinds of things) and their leader, David Cameron to put the environmental issues on top of their agenda. In Germany, people repeatedly show their enthusiasm by supporting the Green party in elections and in the US, some states, obviously in east and west coast, applied measures to control the emission, regardless of federal government’s indifference.

The good news is, as public awareness increases, governments seem to act more and more responsibly but there is also a bad news:

Tomorrow could be too late!