the environment is calling: global warming

Yesterday, the weather was unbelievably cold that we could see the small pitter patter of the dense water in the atmosphere actually slightly thickening to a point that we all thought that we are about to experience snow. But that's not far away, since we're beyond global warming and now actually cooking as the environmental kitchen is put into turbo for extra devastative results and not just in the Middle East region but all over the world.

I wasn't going to write about this but fact of the matter is that it's not just one nation's fault, but everyone on this Earth is to blame and the biggest reason is the population explosion that this planet is increasingly experiencing the world over with over 6.5 billion habitants breathing, living, eating, sleeping, drinking, burning more wood for warmth, shelter while our beloved Earth is trying so hard to cope with all the developments that are happening on it's surface that it's no wonder having a helping hand from nature by sending the worst natural calamities to the rescue so it can turn that number down by a few hundred million.

The last few years have only showed us how greedy we all are towards our environmental responsibilities of the only planet that we could ever inhabit. Like for instance how the United States' first move with the 'new' Bush administration's move in the UN was to retract back from the Kyoto agreement for lowering pollution levels cause by the burning of fossil fuels such as gasoline because - as it was quoted - that that would slow down the industrial wheels of the US economy. There are also the other 3rd world countries that try to offer the image that they are trying to bring in environmental sense into their countries by introducing the recycling of products - that's not done locally in the GCC - plus that they use unleaded fuel. But most of it is just a front so not to get criticized by world media and other countries that are trying their best to cut down on all types of environmental pollution levels.

And in countries where we see the worst, there's always someone saying 'oh, but we're better than so and so country'. Which is a very lame excuse because in order to do what's right for the better good of anything you have to aim to be number 1; thus means that 2nd place is not an option - especially if the category is the environment. There are only two ways that such things can be done; the right way or the wrong way.

What is happening in Oman is probably the wrong way - or rather what I would call the U-turn effect since we are blowing 36 years of preserving the environment down the drain with giving it away so that we can 'afford' to live a better a life.

How lame is that?

We don't recycle in Oman. We don't reuse the items that are in use over a period of time. We encourage the use of plastic. We use items that endanger the ozone layer like CFC packed containers. And we still all produce gas, petrol as a means of transportation, and what's worse there is no approval for cleaner produce of fuel in Oman especially when you have it all around, like solar power.

Its things like these that keep you asking what's the point of protecting the environment if we can't be serious about it for the future generations?