Climate Change: Open Eyes, Closed Minds

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For many years, experts especially scientists have forewarned us about the rapid

climate change that we experience today. Evidence is already laid before one’s eyes,

typhoons, glaciers melting, intense heat waves, etc. that result in massive damage to

human lives and properties. But will we ever overcome climate change?

In a recent news article, Jane Goodall, a primatologist said that climate change is

“at no point of return”. That statement alone is the reality we face today, we have been

too busy fantasizing over the works of “globalization”, technology, and the economy

booming while our planet continues to get exploited in every human way possible.

When Goodall explained her environmental awakening, it was the same for everyone

else to experience but many would still keep a blind eye to this matter, and others would

just call it “things that happen” hearing every word about climate change but never

listening thus, a continuous cycle of neglect. How does this relate to global

demography?

As damages apply to both lives and properties, the mortality rate increase is

inevitable. We have famine and casualties that are caused by these disasters of climate

change. The battle for survival for many poor people and the battle for transcendence

for the privileged, food and shelter that are sought by many but resources are no more

plenty and never was plenty for one too many.

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 Taking it as a whole, we can do as much effort as we want to prevent casualties

but there will never be a guarantee for anything better soon not with the increased risks

imposed by disasters of mother nature.