Go Green!

Did you watch 2010? Did it make you cry, angry, and depressed? When you walked out of the theater, what did you plan to do about those feelings? Start recycling? Using less energy? Walking instead of driving? I don't think people have changed their lifestyle since the increasing reports of recent natural disasters. The movie certainly didn't motivate anyone to act on this very important matter! I've been reading a lot of articles on the news this year about natural disasters and it has definitely caught my attention as to how thin the ice is. *no pun intended on glaciers* Our earth is shifting, the ice is melting, animals are dying from loss of habitat, disasters causing other disasters, disease, turmoil, chaos...wow. the fucking list goes on! I've included here in this blog entry eleven recent disasters. I've also calculated the reported numbers of people who died in these disasters. Note: not all deaths were reported, some articles weren't specific

about 500,000 died since August 2007 until today. That's a lot of people since according to Wiki, the world population today on March 18, 2010 is 6,800,000,000. Maybe you're thinking - that's not a lot but it fucking is! Just from the earthquake in Haiti, the earth's axis has shifted and thereby, the earth has a lot less daylight time. Sooner or later, we'll all be living under water. Fucking dead. I think we need to start thinking and living GREEN. I don't want to fall into I-95's crevice or be squashed by a falling Mcdonald's 'M.' Think about it.

2007--

August: Olympia, Greece--Forest fires (10 days, 65 people dead)

October: Santa Barbara County, California--wildfires (destroyed 500,000+ acres)

2008--

May: Sichuan, China--earthquake 8.0 Magnitude (70,000 dead - 5,000+ students)

2009--
April: Burma--Cyclone Nargis (138,000 dead)

November: Cockermouth, Cumbria--flood

2010--

January: Port-au-Prince, Haiti--earthquake 7.0 Magnitude (212,000 dead)
February: Concepcion, Chile--earthquake 8.8 Magnitude (1.5 million displaced, 300+ dead)
March: Catalonia, Barcelona--snow (20 inches, heaviest in 25yrs)
March: Kovancilar, Turkey--earthquake 6.0 Magnitude (50+ dead)

March: Mount Elgon, Uganda--mudslide (350+ dead)

March: Mongolia--coldest winter (worst in 30 years, temps. falling below -25C)

Mongolia's Worst Winter

California's wildfire

earthquake in Haiti