UN Climate
Change Conference
By Abubakr G. Shaikh
Ohio
Your editorial (UN Climate Change
Conference, December 9 2005) speaks of your highly
scholarly skills, drawing from historical facts
and reasoning with irrefutable statistics. In
appreciating the depth of your thoughts, the research,
and the grip of the subject, I present my comments
in the following paragraphs.
Progress and revolutions have a price tag, nothing
comes cheap or free. Man's quest for the unknown,
his instincts and inborn motivation to explore
and his resilience to unfold the mysteries, have
rewarded him in many ways. He looked Godly by
conquering the moon and beyond, shattering centuries
old romantic lores and myths .Man achieved many
milestones - from inventing light bulbs to cloning
sheep . In his quest to establish supremacy, subjugating
and humiliating others, he invented the bomb and
went on to make weapons of mass destruction, from
sporting aeroplanes to the deadly and sophisticated
Stealth. Man used to be afraid of wild beasts;
in today’s civilized world he is afraid
from his own kind!
Nature had provided man with the planet earth
for his comfort and livelihood, rich in green
forests laden with delicious fruits, streams with
clean water, majestic sea and towering mountains
but the ungrateful frenzied man unleashed his
ruthless terror on the environment he lived in.
He raped the earth, poisoned its water, burnt
the eye-catching green forests, holed the untamed
sea and razed the mountains in his craze for more
and more material gains for his unsatisfying greed.
After having exploited and polluting the earthly
atmosphere, he is now venturing into Space and
exploring the possibility of building colonies,
exploring other planets for habitation. A possible
Star War may destroy what man has built in the
past . Continent Africa, the green valley of the
world, has gone dry and is turning into a great
sea of desert, the glaciers are melting and the
sea level is constantly rising to threaten many
coastal cities .The mother nature has endured
enough of man's wanton destruction of the environment.
Its patience has exhausted and man is now on the
receiving end, sometimes by the punishing Tsunami,
sometimes by the dreadful Katrina and sometimes
by the revengeful earthquakes.
Every time nature unleashes its wrath, the helpless
poor mostly suffer. I wonder why?
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