Nathan_T's Blog

Sure enough, right after Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work raising awareness of global warming and enviromental pollution people started coming out and saying what a mockery it made of the prize. Seriously? Is caring about future generations really a left or right issue?

I fear that while the rest of the industrialized world work at making air cleaner, water safer and try to lessen the impact that global warming could have we here in America are going to continue arguing about whether it's even happening and question why we should be the leaders in reducing the causes, even though we were the ones who have contributed more to world pollution than any other country.

It's not even only about warming, it's about safe living. We breathe far worse substances than our ancestors did 25 years ago, within a few decades most fish will be unsafe to eat due to mercury contamination. That is if we don't over-harvest the ocean to the brink of collapse as we're doing now.

 Perhaps the worst thing that could come from a warming world would be famine, disease, lack of water and the wars that will follow suit. We fight now for safety from other humans. Soon enough we might be fighting our neighbors for a drink of water.