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A Cry for Mankind on Earth

Today is the first day for the “United Nations Climate Change Conference” which takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark between (7^th - 18^th December, 2009) where the participants aims to reach another deal beyond the year 2012 after Kyoto Treaty. Participants are collation of the ‘Conference of Parties (COP 15)’ to the ‘United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’ and the ‘5th Meeting of Parties (COP 15 / MOP 5)’ to the ‘Kyoto Protocol’

The Two Sides

At the threshold of the 21^st century this is needed to set up an alarm for where humanity is heading to exactly. Generally speaking, the development on Planet Earth since the industrial era that started in the 19^th century had provided human beings with many facilities that helped them in moving straightforward, however the other side of the coin tell us about the pollution.

This dark side affected both the health of people on the short run and might help in increasing the Global warming effect on the long run due to the emission ‘Carbon Dioxide’ gas (CO₂) and this happened because of two reasons as I see:

1. we have not preserved our natural resources and;
2. the industrial policies have not implemented a good strategy for decreasing side effects that rapidly increased in the 20th century.

Stand up for Earth

My message for this conference is simple: few months ago, I participated in the online event Earth Hour that aimed to send a message for this conferences where leaders are discussing the climate change problems and here I am looking forward that they stand up for their responsibilities to preserve our future.

On the other hand, it is notable that in the year 2008, Earth inhabitants passed 6.6 billion person according to the World-Bank statistics and this means serious efforts should be spent for reaching a better future for our Earth; not only by placing and implementing a framework for nations via such conference but also for reaching clean technologies that help in saving the future of Earth and this has nothing to do with conference as much as the strategy of industry.

Some people think that climate change is just exaggerating and here I recall an Arabic proverb that states: Prevention (or protection) is better than cure, and this means it is stupid to wait till a tragedy happen then we start moving to solve it and here I wonder about the meaning of science we have developed as humans if it was not implemented for the sake of better future!

People, may be a post cannot help but look for our past and present and tell me how much money had been spent on stupid things like nuclear weapons, and how other had been spent on hating people because other do not like them? For that matter, I am sharing my thoughts clearly that we need to spend more money on things that help people which means to stop thinking on the short-run and in a narrow-minded way because it is not only about us; rather our children and their children shall succeed us on this planet, so what exactly are we leaving for them?

“The earth is what we all have in common.” ~ [Wendell Barry]

Related Posts

• Earth Hour: Lights/OFF
• ER: Heal the World

Related Sites

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]
• Gateway to UN System's Work on Climate Change
• COP 15 Copenhagen [2009 Conference]

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