Force of Nature...

It's payback time for us humans. We've been treating mother nature so badly, now she retaliates!

Sometimes, living in a metropolitan capital, we tend to forget that there's a bigger force of nature at work in our lives. We have been focusing on ourselves, what we can do, how much we can achieve in the next 3 years, and we think we can control our lives and everything that surrounds it, including nature!

Everything can be dealt with technology and the advancement of it. Rivers can be re-directed, trees can be made to grow faster, stronger, food can be mass produced, and little do we realise, it's because of technology that we destroyed the earth. The earth was perfect, until man took-over. However much man can try to rectify nature, by plating trees, saving forests, protecting endangered species, and whatever nots, we cannot simulate what nature has accumulated over thousands of years. An eco-system, untouched by man, has been hanging in perfect balance and harmony for all eternity can remember. Along came man, they saw, they conquered, and they destroyed that balance. Many of us fail to realise that the extinction of even one species of bug will throw the eco-system into chaos...

Well, now that mother nature decides to fight back, we are now faced with an incurable situation. We've managed to control earth, wind and fire... but we've not been able to control air. No matter how much wind you can huff and puff up, you won't be able to blow the haze away. Water and rain will only cure the situation for only a moment. Afterwhich, the smoke will still slowly crawl back into the space between the tiny molecules of clean air. There is no air filter small enough to separate haze and air, bar our lungs, and we all know how much that costs. Can I rent your lungs for a while so that I don't deteriorate my own lungs? Money can't buy you health... and money can't buy you out of this haze. So, all your dirty businessmen out there, this one's for you. Spoil the environment will you?? all for a little extra cash in your pocket will you?? so that you can live comfortably will you?? now suffer and die! along with the rest of us!

saddenning... it is in times like these that I contemplate the direction that the earth is going... sometimes, I do find it better that i do not bring a child into the earth. Afterall, the way the future is looking, life can only get worse. Even my grandmother understands thist fact. So, boys and girls, think of what the future holds when you get married and plan for a baby. What will become of the earth when your child grows up? What kind of earth will they be inheritting?