Earth Day

There is almost a day for anything on earth, even i got a day of my own - my birthday.

22nd April is Earth Day, a day when they 'lament' about what they did to spaceship Earth. They niam and niam about the growing amount of CO2, the damage to the enviroment done by mankind, and what we need to do to keep things in check..

But they forgot.. this spaceship is fueled by economic growth, not ecological. Just take a look of some of the economies out there that have large amounts of CO2 emission per capita. Would they sacrifice growth just so that we can have a better enviroment to live in? I guess highly likely not. At least not now.

Watched a rather cmi show on earth report. The show rates countries according to the damage/restoration done to Planet Earth for the year.. sg got rated in one of the category. It says that sg didn't do much to curb fishing.. and so it was rated one of the worst. Was wondering.. are we still that fishing village of the 17th century? Weird lor.. where got so many fish to fish? We don't even have that much sea to begin with...

It was the NIMBY approach.. just so we can do anything, so long as NIMBY. Just take a look at the erratic weather patterns causing crop failure and damgaes to other food sources. No wonder the food prices keep soaring. So in the end, does NIMBY matters anymore? Too bad lor.. unless those economies are self-subsistance.. then maybe, they don't even care.

And just like my birthday, Earth day is all but one day on the calander. After the presents and birthday wishes, all will resume to the mundane.

(something else.. IMO, just so on the CO2 issue - it comes about from the burning of fossil fuel to power the economy. So if that is taken off from the equation, perhaps then.)

p/s: i'm just trying to take a break from FR.. i'm not an ecologist of any sort. The only thing that is affecting me is, my shrinking packet rice and the super warm weather these days.