To be completely honest, i have to say I’ve long turned my back on Science, though I owed my free high school education to it (for some reason I took the test and passed and managed to get by all the advance biology, advanced trigonometry, linear algebra, etc, not possible without the help of generous geek classmates)
Not that it didn’t interest me, I guess it just didn’t interest me enough, well not as much as the stories of O. Henry and Oscar Wilde, or Catcher In the Rye or the Little Prince did. My interest in science was more on the stories of the men who wondered, who experimented, who discovered..Einstein, Galileo, Fleming, their stories and discoveries are as fascinating as the stars and the human body, and certainly more intriguing than chemical compositions and unknown x & ys. I suppose a good number of my schoolmates went on to become chemists, and engineers, doctors and researchers but there were also a bunch of us who took a different path.
In fact I’ve pretty much forgotten my brush with the Sciences if not for a recent decision to finally get into something worthwhile and un-corporate, something that doesn’t involve work or a lot of money or image and since I’ve always been a fan of nature, and the color green, I thought maybe signing up for Greenpeace is not a bad idea.
I’m not gonna go on a long tirade about Global Warming and alarming increase of weather disasters and all that shit, its pretty obvious, and that’s the sad thing about the whole cause. Its there. Its Galileo’s story happening all over again, but we refuse to acknowledge, we refuse to be bothered.
My sympathies go out to scientists all over the world who stumbled upon the inconvenient truth, and insist on telling it. Its like Fox Mulder telling us about aliens and an the elaborate government conspiracy to cover it up, then everyone calls him Spooky and he gets assigned to the basement.
It is happening, there’s proof, and we are all guilty of it. We take so much from it, but we never stop to consider where it goes, what happens next, instead we move on with our daily lives worrying about where we’re going to have lunch.
It seems like a giant hopeless task, but really when I got to know more about it, its really a matter of (quoting a line a from a cool movie called "Idiocracy") "getting the ball rolling" …
Like taking a walk or taking the MRT, rather than taking your car if you can help it
Like changing your light bulbs to more energy efficient fluorescent ones
Like turning off appliances, unplugging them when not in use. "On Standby" is not the same as "Off"
Like supporting renewable energy by any means, spreading the word is one
To take an example from the Little Prince - its cleaning your own volcanoes and taking care of the baobabs…before its too late. Because at the end of the day, we’re all a bunch of free loaders in this generous blue shelter - eating its food, drinking its waters, sleeping in its bed, watching its sunsets. The least one can do is be grateful and give a little back.
Yes there are other problems in the world, but it shouldn’t downplay the fact that we are killing ourselves and our future one tree at a time.
Besides think about scientists devoting their prime years gathering data from the ice in Antartica only to be booed upon sharing their results.
Meanwhile we are so ready to rejoice every little dimwit who comes out with nonsense songs about humps, booty and going down low. Talk about idiocracy.
Its not too late. Be part of the solution.
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