The Climate Change March as Climate Change Marches On

Author: Sally Saban

If you’re fishing dock disappears under water, then you can’t fish. But, hey, that’s alright, isn’t it? Most of us don’t fish anyway. And for those of you who do fish, you can probably also drive a boat. And work a hammer. So take your boat, find a new place, and build a new dock. Presto. Problem solved.

If you’re home disappears under water, though, then you can’t live. No vehicle, no tools, no attitude can lighten the effect of losing homes to the rising sea levels. “All hail King Neptune and his water breathers,” as so perfectly, and hypothetically, put by the Gorillaz.

Climate change has ceased being a hypothetical problem. I am not an environmentalist, and I have never been one. But after doing some research on the topic of climate change, I have decided that the world (starting with Slope Media readers) must be aware of this global problem.

Let the crash course begin:

Climate change is causing an interruption in natural climate plans. Disorder will ensue in all shapes and forms. For one, storms, as they veer from their natural forms due to human intervention, are becoming more and more radical, leading to more destruction. Frequency and strength are skyrocketing. Hurricane Sandy, the 2012 version of hell for the East Coast, was just one dose of what is to plague our children.

A faux weather report released by the UN revealed that, by 2050, much of the United States will experience daily highs of 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Oh, and most of Florida will be joining the Marshall Islands, as neighbors, underwater. Replacing Floridian beaches with Californian shores will not help either, because such regions will be suffering from extreme drought that far surpasses the levels reached by emergency droughts existing today.

The environment doesn’t have any emotions, and it seems okay to take advantage of it in the name of human progress. However, we cannot deny that the environment is tremendously intertwined with human progress. And hurting the environment is directly hurting us. Our animals, our food, our ecosystems, our world, our lives are already feeling the changes. So let’s start making changes.

This Sunday, September 21st, NYC is hosting the People’s Climate March. Tens of thousands of people, including hundreds of Cornellians ,will gather to raise awareness and connect for the sake of the world. Their goal is to raise awareness. And that goes beyond reduce, reuse, recycle. It goes beyond taking quicker showers and carpooling to work. We are trying to save a system, and we need to raise awareness amongst larger corporations and powerful governments. We need to push to excite more significant changes. The leaders of these movements will direct us in our actions, but it is our job to show these leaders that we care and that we are ready. We need to contribute to their power and influence so that they have the proper following to make moves.

Talk about it, read about it, speak about. Show that we care. We may live on a slope, but like I said, the sea levels are rising.

Sources:

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/17/un-climate-change.html

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