Facing the Music
Many lakes like this one are drying out. Water is a finite resource -- what will we do when it's gone?
Most of our ancestors knew how to work with the land and take only what they needed. They did not try to control nature, but rather worked around it and learned its cycles, so that they always had enough for everyone.
The real war between us and the environment has started just a few centuries ago. Since the industrial revolution, we started thinking we were more important than anything else on this planet. We have been slowly and surely exploiting the only planet where we live, turning the Earth’s rich soil into rock hard dust.
It is a sad reality. Our very own extinction will be manmade.
And it is coming. It is terrifying close.
Scientists say the best window of time we have is seven to eight years, give or take, to make strong impactful changes before climate change brings our inevitable deaths.
The future and present effects of climate change are dystopian and horrifying.
We have locked ourselves in a loop that we cannot escape unless we get off our feet and roll up our sleeves.
People used to call this "Global Warming" -- but it's so much more than that.
Please watch the video below to have a better understanding of the consequences we are facing, and will face in the future.
The real war between us and the environment has started just a few centuries ago. Since the industrial revolution, we started thinking we were more important than anything else on this planet. We have been slowly and surely exploiting the only planet where we live, turning the Earth’s rich soil into rock hard dust.
It is a sad reality. Our very own extinction will be manmade.
And it is coming. It is terrifying close.
Scientists say the best window of time we have is seven to eight years, give or take, to make strong impactful changes before climate change brings our inevitable deaths.
The future and present effects of climate change are dystopian and horrifying.
We have locked ourselves in a loop that we cannot escape unless we get off our feet and roll up our sleeves.
People used to call this "Global Warming" -- but it's so much more than that.
Please watch the video below to have a better understanding of the consequences we are facing, and will face in the future.
So, this is our new reality.
Droughts are a lot more frequent and severe.
Entire populations in underdeveloped countries are losing their land, many being forced to move permanently and some may even die out.
Entire lands are becoming cracked, disfigured brown rock where it was once lush and green. Lands where nothing can grow again.
Storms are rocking our homes and ripping houses out of their foundations.
Heat waves are drying out entire crops and killing people in every region of the globe -- even right here, in British Columbia, where HUNDREDS of people died in their homes during the last heat wave.
Misting stations and water stations have popped up around Vancouver and New Westminster -- a good bandaid if you are outside, but doing NOTHING to fix the actual problem, or help the people who are home, cooking to death.
Animals which are crucial for the survival of our BC balance, such as the salmon, have been suffering continuous decline due to climate change (and in the salmon's case, overfishing). Not only is the salmon much harder to find, the size of the salmon itself has decreased by 30%, providing less nutrients to bears and orcas and other predators when they are lucky enough to find one.
This has caused animals to invade towns close to the forest, looking for a different food supply -- since their natural food sources are dwindling. And of course, confused humans end up killing these animals which are only trying to survive.
The glaciers are melting, and the water has already been rising steadily in some regions (this is very visible near the Equator). Hinman glacier, once the biggest glacier in the Pacific Northwest, is now completely gone.
Entire animal species are already disappearing.
Many more will be forever gone. Irredeemable.
Irreversible.
Dead, forever.
And soon we will be too, suffering in a hell we created ourselves.
It is so much, and so real and painful, we can't possibly comprehend; so many of us just prefer to ignore what is happening and continue their lives as if it is business as usual.
BUT WE MUST! There is still time! If we act, we can fix this mess we're in!
Please go back to the main page and click on the other links to find out how.
Droughts are a lot more frequent and severe.
Entire populations in underdeveloped countries are losing their land, many being forced to move permanently and some may even die out.
Entire lands are becoming cracked, disfigured brown rock where it was once lush and green. Lands where nothing can grow again.
Storms are rocking our homes and ripping houses out of their foundations.
Heat waves are drying out entire crops and killing people in every region of the globe -- even right here, in British Columbia, where HUNDREDS of people died in their homes during the last heat wave.
Misting stations and water stations have popped up around Vancouver and New Westminster -- a good bandaid if you are outside, but doing NOTHING to fix the actual problem, or help the people who are home, cooking to death.
Animals which are crucial for the survival of our BC balance, such as the salmon, have been suffering continuous decline due to climate change (and in the salmon's case, overfishing). Not only is the salmon much harder to find, the size of the salmon itself has decreased by 30%, providing less nutrients to bears and orcas and other predators when they are lucky enough to find one.
This has caused animals to invade towns close to the forest, looking for a different food supply -- since their natural food sources are dwindling. And of course, confused humans end up killing these animals which are only trying to survive.
The glaciers are melting, and the water has already been rising steadily in some regions (this is very visible near the Equator). Hinman glacier, once the biggest glacier in the Pacific Northwest, is now completely gone.
Entire animal species are already disappearing.
Many more will be forever gone. Irredeemable.
Irreversible.
Dead, forever.
And soon we will be too, suffering in a hell we created ourselves.
It is so much, and so real and painful, we can't possibly comprehend; so many of us just prefer to ignore what is happening and continue their lives as if it is business as usual.
BUT WE MUST! There is still time! If we act, we can fix this mess we're in!
Please go back to the main page and click on the other links to find out how.
