Earth Day: Between Action and Ignorance

Earth Day is a name refers to 2 events. First is UN Earth Day which is celebrated each year on March 20 according to March equinox day. An equinox in astronomy is that moment in time (not a whole day) when the center of the Sun can be observed to be directly above the Earth's equator, occurring around March 20 and September 23 each year. It was founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969. And the second Earth Day, can be said Global Earth Day, is celebrated each year on April 22. It was founded by US politician Gaylord Nelson in late 1960s.

Whatever terms of Earth Day used and whenever it is held, the goal is same; preventing earth from destruction. In common words nowadays, we have to prevent Earth from global warming.

I just can't believe that so many people out there think that global warming is a hoax. I guest most of them are rich people in Europe or US who live in nice apartment with air conditioned. They are like frog under coconut shell. May be they never experienced flood. They never worked at open field with sunlight getting hotter each year. They don't have sympathy for storm in China, flood in Indonesia and may be, even, Katrina hurricane. They don't know anything about environmental science.

Stand in front line against global warming campaign is Czech President Vaclav Klaus. He publicly expresses doubt on what scientists, including those participating in the UN Conference on Climate Change, deem very likely, that global warming is caused by humans. He also said that rising temperatures may not matter enough for governments to throw funds at halting the process. In a newspaper interview Klaus said that only Al Gore, and not a sane person, would say that mankind is ruining the planet. Well, this honorable Klaus needs to lift up his coconut shell.

UN Climate Change Conference in Bali last December didn't give much hope as some developed countries, in front line is US, declined to reduce their CO emission. It's an irony. They are forcing developing countries to conserve its jungle. They are forcing developing countries to recycling their disposals. They want others do something to save the earth but they don't want to do anything about it.

I'm just hoping that things will change, that more people have consciousness on this matter. And most important, more people take action. Stop being ignorance. We just have one earth. We can't live in Mars yet. We don't want our grand grand children become victims of what we did and what we didn't. Remember, even the mighty dinosaur could be vanished even less human being.

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