The Faces Of Our Children

From My Own Little CornerI just saw a commercial that ticked, ticked, ticked into my brain. It was unusually effective. The children in this particular ad were ticking off the time left if nothing is done about global warming. How much time do we truly have left to change the course of our planet? Probably not very much. The polar ice caps are melting. Heat waves that are more intense and last longer are becoming the norm. In the Netherlands they are recording the highest temperatures seen since they began keeping records. The droughts are longer. Our coral reefs are bleaching out and dying. If we don't stop doing what we are doing and begin to turn things around, we won't have a world for war to destroy. Global warming will do it for us. Already life is changing. Here we just experienced some very fierce storms. For the second time in a year, there were hundreds of thousands of people without electricity for almost a week. New York city is also in the midst of a major blackout and California is experiencing a massive heat wave and will need to institute rolling blackouts to keep up with the demand for electricity. Wild fires are burning at record rates and destroying vast amounts of forest and homes. I saw that in the beginning of June, Germany was experiencing a major SNOW storm. The temperature of the oceans continues to rise. Hurricanes are not only more numerous, but also stronger. We only need to look around us to see that global warming is affecting all of us. Maybe that is why it seems as if no one cares about the wars raging in the Middle East. After all why worry about a little war when we aren't doing anything about the huge war that is being waged on our environment. Sure, not everyone believes that global warming is a threat, but those people have their heads buried in the burning sands. The heat of those sands may have cooked their brains and the temperature continues to rise. Why don't they see what is happening right before their very eyes? Are they truly blind to the effects we are having on our planet? Or is it that the greed is affecting their sight? It sure seems that our government has blinders on when it come to this particular subject. They are so worried about the fight on terrorism that all the other things that our government is supposed to take care of are going by the wayside. There is an election coming up in November. I can only hope that this campaign season sees the candidates tackle some of the other problems facing our country. Problems like poverty, corruption in government, stem cell research, and global warming just to name a few. We are in the midst of the most difficult times of our world. I know that some think that the end is near and so this doesn't matter, but just in case they are wrong, we need to tackle these and many other problems. After all, only God truly knows when the end will come, and in the meantime he gave us this planet to TAKE CARE OF, not abuse. We are supposed to love each other, not kill each other and we need to start doing the right thing. As Stephen King says in the Gunslinger series, "We have forgotten the faces of our fathers." I think that maybe we have also forgotten the faces of our children. So please think about some of these things and pray for peace and enlightenment. May your God bless and keep you and yours.