The temps are increasing a little bit each day and by Friday, it'll be 80. I don't know much about spring fever but I live for summers. I don't know if it's because I grew up in a tropical climate or something more mysterious, deeper in me, that draws me to the warmth, even hot and humid heat. Of course, it's natural for human beings to want to be warm but most people who live in the northern climes appreciate, or tolerate, the cooler months. I hate them. I especially hate when the temps increase for a couple days or a warm week, then suddenly plunge back down as quickly as they rose. Although, it's probably our fault the weather is so off balance. Granted, there is a certain amount of fluctuation in weather patterns but it's supposed to have a pattern. It isn't supposed to be unpredictable. There's a reason meterologist can do their job to a reasonable extent. They read the fronts, the temps, the winds, the storms, and can reasonably forecast what's to come. But what happens when they are so totally off the mark? What happened when the weather does a complete about face from what all the signs seemed to say? Is it the gods of old saying, "We're still here and we still have power over your meager lives!" Or is it the earth crying out from the wounds inflicted upon her? Is global warming real? Does it matter that we (as a species) have systematically erradicated entire species of plants, animals, people, and eco systems?
An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary by Al Gore, looks at what we've done to affect climatic changes across the world. Both corporate interests and intentional ignorance (the worst injustice) have eaten away at the earth's resources in such a profound way that the earth is having difficulty keeping it all together. She's cracking up. I tend to believe that most coporate CEOs recognize this and know that their decisions will have long term effects on the environment but with the thought, "Not in my life time ..." Except, here we are and the CEOs are still here and the planet is under the weather, beseiged by its own defenses. If you can do nothing else, go see this film. Don't succumb to intentional ignorance. You can decide for yourself what you believe once you have all the facts. I'm not suggesting Gore's film will make or break the argument, but it will add more substance to the question. What have we done? And, if you believe the question, then you have to ask, what can we do?
