GreenDay

Sometime back a Newsweek article sought to bring to light a determined effort by many influential persons and organizations to convince the world that global warming was a hoax. I find this amazing. Not because I'm totally convinced that global warming is what it is stated to be - a man-made phenomenon. But because there is no doubt that we are making the world an uglier place.

Whether CO2 emissions are increasing and whether that is leading to accelerated warming of the planet is an interesting point but is subject to too many variables to be conclusively pinned down and dealt with. However, it is hard to deny the visual and environmental impact of industrialization and economic growth. Where reason fails sometimes aesthetics can win the day - we do not need to wait for the planet to burn up and drown in melting ice to see the damage we are wreaking on it. Some of us choose to risk the welfare of their own and the children of all others on the possibility that the pro-greens are soft in their heads. I say, think of the beauty we have forever deprived our children of, and take a step towards the preservation of what is left...