Ch, ch, ch, changes....

Check out this cartoon…
http://www.globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml

I don’t claim to be a scientific person. I was never the kind of child that was terribly interested in the inner workings of an earthworm, or a frog, or a pig fetus. In fact, I count discovering those inner workings as one of the more traumatic experiences of my childhood. (Thank you very much BLANCO junior high!) But the older I get, the more I stop focusing on me and how everything relates to me, I want to know more about the world and all the beings that are in it. When Tim and I spent that road trip to OKC listening to Bill Bryson’s Short History of Nearly Everything, I felt like a curiosity awakened in me. I wanted to know more about the earth and how we as human beings affect everything around us.

I watched a documentary, you may have heard of it, The March of the Penguins. It showed how the change in the earth’s climate has a huge effect on the penguins and their way of life. Then I watched a documentary on bears. The bears are being affected as well….and not just the polar bears. Then the documentary on bugs, and birds and fish and all the living things… it’s affecting everyone. I don’t mean to be alarmist and I can see how it might sound like doomsday prophecy, but I’ve been having nightmares about it lately. In my dreams, everything is drying up. The earth seems so fragile and I have a huge amount of frustration with the world around me that seems to just go on its merry way with little concern for the earth. Things like global warming and the devastation it will cause to wildlife, plant life, and ultimately everything on this planet are not fiction. Everything around us points to what will come if we don’t start doing whatever we can to change it.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that, even though I’m not an expert, I can see with my own eyes how my world is changing. Consider your position and try to become more aware…

http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming.asp

*and so ends my environmental post*

p.s. I'm finally taking my snow shoes out for a test run tomorrow!

http://www.redfeather.com/viewProducts.php?id=18

I got the Strides. ooh yeah... it's gonna be fun. :)