Blog Assignment #2: The State of the Planet

Of course we need to do something to save our planet. Take a look at the global warming and there is no doubt that we all need to contribute if we want our offspring to live with a normal climate.

As a result of our pollutions there are more and more natural disasters all over the world. Here in Sweden there have been relatively few, but the hurricane that struck us in the beginning of 2007 and the landslides in the end of 2006 are just pointers to where we might be heading. The damage the hurricane did to the landscape and to the people that lived there where tremendous.

I shudder when I think that this can actually happen to me, or to my close ones someday in a not to distant future if we don't care about our environment. To predict our future will be as hard as to win on the lottery, even if we begin to do something, it might not be enough. But we have to try, we owe the future that much.

An extremely precarious time is a head of us, even if you only take the buss instead of driving your car; it's at least a step in the right direction. I always take my bike to the station, and from there I take either the train or the bus to the university, instead of driving my own car. It's a small step in the right direction.

The future might be intimidating for us, but it can also be a very bright one if we work hard for it. Stop driving that car of yours and take the bike, don't be so lazy. Try to save some energy; you don't need to have the TV, your stereo and your computer on at the same time. You can't use them all at the same time.

Steven