Today is international earth day, I think everyone knows that. I won’t go Al Gore like on this blog entry but I’ll just share my experience with global warming. Before I start can I just say that the Google doodle for earth day looks so nice!
Global warming is really starting to take its toll on tropical countries like here in the Philippines. Summers here are getting extremely warmer even by tropical standards. It really became evident to me when I woke up last night at 11:45pm sweating like a pig from the heat. Last night was the first night I slept with the air-conditioning turned on since we moved in to our house 5 years ago. I hardly ever use the air-conditioning because I try as much as possible to cut down on electricity use (since I’m already on the computer 10 hours a day).
I really don’t understand how people can keep saying that human action is not to blame for global warming. It maybe a natural occurrence but this is happening at a rate that is unnatural. Even if you say its natural, are you just going to let it kill the world population slowly and not try to at the very least delay it one single bit? If there’s something I’ve learned from designing for the web and encountering different problems with different browsers is that when there is always a way to get around things.