Earth: Love It or Leave It
The topic of global warming is a political hot button, but it really shouldn’t be. If global warming wasn’t already the subject of heated debates, Friday’s release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report has brought it even more clearly into the public eye. For those who don’t know, the IPCC report apparently painted a very gloom picture of the earth’s future - a picture which was even more gloom before its “watering down” by various governments. Check the IPCC’s website for more information.
You’d think global warming would be a pretty easy topic to debate, right? Either it’s happening or it isn’t. Either it’s our fault or it isn’t. Either we should do something about it or we shouldn’t. I don’t see any reason why this topic should be political at all, nor why it should even be trusted to politicians to begin with. (Let politicians deal with trivial issues like file sharing, and leave the future of our planet to people with some intelligence.) What’s even more baffling is that, somehow, Democrats and Republicans have managed to camp on opposite sides of the line yet again. It’s almost as if the people we’ve elected into leadership would rather spend their time arguing with one another than, ya know, making progress. Oh, wait… 
I’m not going to argue for either side, because I’m not educated enough on this issue and jumping to conclusions rarely solves anything. However, there’s one point that I think we can all agree on - Our planet is not expendable. Until the day comes when we can colonize other planets and freely transport billions of people between them, we will always have to be keeping an eye on the state of Earth’s environment. Claiming that we can pollute our planet without consequence is like claiming that you can let rodents and termites into your house and pour corrosive acid down the drains. You may not notice any damage right away, but sooner or later, you will have to deal with your negligence. Think of Earth as a really big house with six billion bedrooms. Maybe the problems haven’t surfaced yet, and maybe they won’t surface for another 100 years. Maybe they won’t surface for another million years, but if our rate of pollution continues, they will surface eventually. And when they do, we’d better hope that there are other houses on the market.
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