"INACTION" OR '"IN ACTION"?

What if the melting of the ice caps were the tears of the Earth, the hurricanes an expression of Her rage & the fall of habitats a demonstration of Her dismay? If She could speak, what would She say?

A "habitat" refers to the natural environment of a living organism - be it a plant, animal or insect. But is any known environment to Man ever natural? Perhaps not, for our presence has inevitably altered & modified the pre-existing system & order of places that were once deemed "natural".  

"It is unequivocal that anthropogenic increases in the well-mixed

greenhouse gases (WMGHGs) have substantially enhanced

the greenhouse effect..." 

"There is robust evidence that anthropogenic land use change

has increased the land surface albedo..."  

(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014)

Anthropogenic this, anthropogenic that. Indeed, professionals have shown us how anthropological environmental issues have been & are becoming in the 21st century. In fact, this has become a fact we can no longer afford to ignore. We already feel the changes in our own environments; sporadic weather patterns, higher day-time & night-time temperature, etc. Do we really have to wait for irrevocable environmental changes to occur or await the dawn of our extinction before we start doing something about it?

As cheesy as it sounds, there is certain truth to this statement. Beliefs are great, they are built on from one generation to the next, they are what lasts with the demise of people. But a belief alone is not enough to change the world. Instead, changing the world is about putting these beliefs into action - changing your behaviour, picking up your tools & doing something about it.

So as inhabitants of the Earth, are we, but, an audience watching the world deteriorate before our eyes? What on Earth are we to do about it?

I will be discussing the types, importance & impacts of HABITAT CONSERVATION in later posts.

References:

• INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE. (2014) Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (New York Cambridge University Press)

• Dominique Mosbergen, (2013), Earth [ONLINE]. Available at: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1294566/thumbs/o-EARTH-FACTS-facebook.jpg [Accessed 20 August 14].

• POSITIVEMED TEAM, (2012), Be the change you want to see in the world [ONLINE]. Available at:http://positivemed.com/2012/05/15/be-the-change-you-want-to-see-in-the-world/ [Accessed 20 August 14]