No doubt, climate change is a pressing issue. The lecturers showed us in their slides that the current climate situation is no laughing matter. From the statistics that analyze the alarming rate at which the temperature increases to the evidence of the effects of global warming, the lecture reminds us that we are living in no comfort zone. Truly, the climate situation is a ticking time bomb ready to explode and create devastating effects upon mankind.
In later part of the lecture, we were told of the measures we could adopt to actually lower the carbon emission that contribute to climate changes. Ironically, facing the doom, mankind still remain selfish, ignoring all warnings and precaution necessary to curb climate changes and its effect. Just touch our heart and ask ourselves, how many measures we remembered from the lecture and how many of them are we going to start implementing into our lives? Ultimately, I feel that the problems posed by climate changes would not be solved easily if we continue to live in our own sweet world and waiting for an external hand to eradicate these problems for us. How long we are going to wait? I seriously do not know. But the time bomb is still ticking...
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Rather interesting analogy of comparing climate change to a ticking time bomb. But unlike a time bomb, its immediate effect is not as obvious for the climate change. Scientist can only predict and forecast how high the temperature and sea level can rise, and think of methods to salvage the situation. If it is comparable to a time bomb with a countdown timer, i believe the world leaders would have taken immediate actions. Only in recent years, when the effect of climate change become significant; more disasters, monsoon, earthquakes and tsunami strikes, the focus has suddenly shifted to it. We can only hope that our tiny island would still above sea level in a few decades time.
ReplyDeleteClimate change has indeed, been a problem faced over the years. The way i see it, the only way to save the world is for us to return back to the stone ages. Where people live with basic tools. In this way, it would be a carbon free society. The huge amount of money governments have been pouring in to minimise waste and maximise resources only manages to slow down the bomb a little, the main problems are industrialisation, our daily activities and household consumptions.
ReplyDeleteHopefully scientists can prove me wrong and come up with some miracle inventions which could save the world from its doom.
JH's writing is interesting and writing sophistication is achieved. If you are writing a personal response, this is quite good already. If you are writing a summary, you need to include the main points of the two lectures.
ReplyDeleteWeber made an interesting comment on the analogy between the climate change problem and the time bomb. I also consider it is an interesting analogy and I agree with Weber that climate change may not seem to be as urgent as a ticking time bomb as the effects are slowly revealed, but the effect of the problem may be far greater than a bomb at the point of final "explosion".
J Long made an interesting point that the only way of coping with climate change seems to be having humans return to the stone age. Though this sounds a bit extreme, it does make us think of the issue of sustainable living.