Power and Exploit

No one believed back in the 80's and 90's of the last century the 'myth' of global warming. George W. Bush and a number of other international country leaders all over the world were lead to think that it was none of their business and that their striving insudtries and economies were of a much larger importance.

In the year before the last, 2004, we had the Tsunami which upset the whole southern hemisphere of the world in cities such as Southern Thailand; Penang, Malaysia; the Southern province of India, along with a massive heatwave all along the Middle Eastern countries and North Africa, not to mention the rapid hurricanes that hit the Americas (i.e.: Hurricane Andrews; Hurricane Katrina).

A great comedian - Robin Williams (in Live on Broadway, HBO Special)- once described the situation of global warming in his own sarcastic humor by saying; "Right now, the polar ice capsules are melting and floating accross into the seas. Right now, the situation is beyond global warming - it's global melting." And it is just that.

And now, we're suffering even further here in Muscat, what with the very low winter season tempretures that have reached an all-time low in the capital's 30 year history to a point of hitting 10.7 degrees celcuis (according to the Omani weather service beurea).

Is there anything we can do now beyond this point? I fail to see what we can do but save what little we have right now and conserving as much energy that we needn't use and perhaps look forward towards more cleaner, more efficient fuel sources that we can utilise to our use and develop it for our children's future.

We've made a mistake and it's high time that we come to face the consequences of our greediness for power and exploit.