Beyond saving Earth!
I shall assume that nowadays in the 21st century we have successfully implemented a framework to preserve the climate change on planet Earth by decreasing the emissions of gases that previously lead to the greenhouse effect in the 20th century after our global leaders listened to a cry for Mankind on Earth since better late than never as it is known globally.
This is a great step for humanity since now we can live on a better clean planet and hence advance in a way that differs from the previous one throughout the history; however my question is a simple one: are we really living in a better clean planet as humans in this case? I am looking for answers in this blog entry.
Coexistence: Beyond saving Earth!
Coexistence: Beyond saving Earth
On the physical level, the planet became cleaner than the past thus world health shall be better so no more calls for healing the world. Nevertheless on the physiological level, I am wondering about another kind of emissions of hate and disrespect gases between people because of the differences instead of love and respect gases.
A careful look on our overall history as humans in the past 20 centuries tell us that despite the continuous development on the technical level, we have not achieved a parallel development on the human one in terms of accepting our differences and to learn how to coexist with them; and this I see as a serious threat that is equal to the physical climate change threat.
I have discussed before how tunnel vision of mentalities make people blind enough for looking at the common grounds they share which is simply that we may know each other and cooperate with each other. On the contrary, you find humans regardless their religions and ideologies are still far from way for achieving such coexistence which I see is a must beyond saving Earth.
I emphasize on our human existence; that we are neither angels nor devils but humans, thus dreaming about an ideal state of smooth human interaction is not my point because there is no Utopia on Earth. Hereby, whatever your religion or ideology are, at the end of the day we are sharing common grounds of human nature either locally; people of the same country or globally; nations of different countries.
Verily, I do not like simplification of situations that it is all about “good people versus bad people” from the “ethical” and “religious” point of view; this is true but not the only reason because the higher the level of interaction, the more complexity of relations and more reasons are being evolved.
Consequently for me, beyond saving earth clearly means that all of us need to reach a state of mind where people understand their differences and know how to coexist with them in a better way than the existing one; nowadays every body accepts the stereotypes and misconceptions from whomever against whomever that lasts during the past 30 years particularly.
In a nutshell, I am simply wondering about when people start using their human intellect where their minds work in a rational way to help them in reaching enlightenment for de-stereotyping the image, existing together, respecting their differences either being social, cultural, religious, or ethnic and hence coexistence in the 21st century. May be this only happens on the intellectual level but it is still too slow for reaching the common level of people everywhere and here I mean all of us, not the usual segregation of the 1st versus the 3rd world since I am not sure about the validity of this categorization when it comes to dealing with stereotypes, misconceptions and ignorance worldwide!
Related Quotes and Sayings
O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.— Holy Qur’an (49:13)
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A Cry for Mankind on Earth!
Today is the first day for the “United Nations Climate Change Conference” that takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark from the 7th to the 18th of December 2009, where the participants aim to reach another deal beyond the year 2012 after Kyoto Treaty. These 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.”
Pollution: A Cry for Mankind on Earth
The Two Sides of Human Development
At the threshold of the 21st century, there is a needed to set up an alarm for where Mankind is heading to exactly. Hence generally speaking, the development on Planet Earth since the industrial era that started in the 19th century had provided human beings with many facilities that helped them in moving straightforward.
This is good indeed; however the other side of the coin tells us about the pollution that caused the raising of other set of global environmental issues and hence, I see this occurred due to the following two reasons:
- we have not preserved our natural resources and;
- the industrial policies have not implemented a good strategy for decreasing side effects that rapidly increased in the 20th century.
This other side caused by pollution is the dark side which already affected both the health of people and hence many calls are rising for an emergency healing of the world on the short run. This might also help in increasing the global warming effect on the long run and other set of environmental problems due to increase in of the emission Carbon Dioxide gas (CO2) that has direct impact on the greenhouse effect on planet Earth which may lead to other environmental degradations.
Stand up to save Earth
In the light of this explanation, 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 conference where leaders shall discuses the global warming climate problems that have direct impact on the environmental degradation and other global environmental issues.
Hence, I am wondering about the right time for making a cry for mankind to save planet Earth other than this one. Hence I am looking forward that they stand up for their responsibilities to preserve our future. Moreover, when he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize, high hopes on Obama meant that our world can get leaders who have vision; however this means – again – responsibilities from all and here I wish this will come true!
SAVE: A Cry for Mankind on Earth
Facing Climate Change
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 this 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, which is another cry for Mankind on Earth beside the conference.
I am aware about how some people think that global warming climate change is just exaggerating and here I recall Arabic (and a global) proverb which tell us about how “Prevention (or protection) is better than cure.” This simply means it is stupid to wait till a tragedy happen then we start looking for alternatives 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!
In a nutshell, may be this is a blog entry that cannot help but at least it is a cry for Mankind on Earth: 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? Hence, 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?
Related Quotes and Sayings
The earth is what we all have in common.— Wendell Barry
Climate Change Resources
- 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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Roundup for November 2009
This is the monthly report #2 in the form of story line for posts written in November where I covered various issues.
Synopsis: blog entries roundup for November 2009
Story Line: One of them was following-up the tragedian case of Marwa el-Sherbiny on “Justice and Stereotype” that focused on the aftermath of the trial for her murderer in Dresden, Germany.
Another tragedy was Fort Hood shooting in United States where “Tragedy and Stereotype” joined forces to produce this horrible act. In complementary to my commentary, I tried to go “Underneath Fort Hood Shooting” few days later, since media as usual has nothing to focus on except the religious background of the gunman. In parallel, I also discussed few “Civilians Matters” regardless the conflict and here I focused the non-stop tragedy of Palestinians and how they are being targeted by Israeli forces aside from any political chaos.
On a different field, although I am neither football fan nor following matches, I was surprised by the aftermath of Egypt and Algeria WorldCup 2010 qualifying matches, and hence I expressed this within an Arabic post entitled “هيستيريا الساحرة المستديرة” that can be translated into hysterical football. You know what? The way people deal in this world either in these examples or others made me wonder about how you can find yourself as if watching the “Psycho Circus of Human Nature” everywhere!
Well, the coin has two sides so aside from problematic events, weird news were circulating about the period of “Egypt under Cambyses II” and hence I wondered too. Furthermore, there was an announcement for the event of “Kolena Laila 2009” that is calling Arab readers and bloggers to participate online and I wish many people can do so. On the other hand, Muslims worldwide were celebrating the blessed days of “The Hajj plus Eid ul-Adha” as part of their following their religion.
What else? November rains were falling and so do stereotypes on Muslims, so this month could not leave us without more of them as we saw the Swiss referendum to ban minarets of mosques. I tried to go beyond meaning of this over “Flying with Black Wings” aside from the bigotry in our world.
Time-Out!
Last but not least, if you love music generally and Arabic ones particularly, you are mostly welcome to join me on “Arabic Music Respite” and free your mind from anything else.
End of the story: “It is December! The last month of 2009 which means the new year is knocking the doors. For my Arabic readers, I remind you with Rouh ya November (Arabic: روح يا نوفمبر – تعالى يا نوفمبر) from an old Arabic movie. Check my twitter for that matter 
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