There's no pressure to perform today.
Today is the day.
A big day yet the same size as yesterday, all at the same time.
Monday, of all things, and I woke up to a world covered in snow. Snow that has since melted. It's gone.
Weather: You need to make up your mind.
I don't mind snow. It's the temperature that'll drop down to minus forty I have a problem with. Most people on this planet have no idea what that feels like, yet without ever experiencing it, most people on this planet will agree, minus forty sucks.
Most frozen peas don't even know what minus forty feels like.
That's a line I should probably delete later.
I have an unpopular opinion.
Brace yourselves.
A warmer planet would be a welcome change.
I care about the environment and I think it's sad so much of it has to spend months being a frozen wasteland.
In the news, lately, and for my entire life, people have been expressing their concerns about a changing climate. We're given one option. The planet will warm up and we're all going to die.
If you had to choose between warm and cold, you'd choose warm.
I don't enjoy how the media will use fear when describing potential outcomes. How would you feel if I threatened you with minus forty?
The movies show some of the big coastal cities being flooded and destroyed. They don't show the happy Canadians growing bountiful harvests year round all while using fewer resources to keep warm.
Yeah! It would suck if all those people lost the first few floors of their skyscrapers; but what about all those floors above sea level? The people of the future forgot how to swim and use boats?
More water means more fish to eat and maybe enough rain to get rid of the deserts, doesn't it?
People just want to protect our way of life.
Those people are usually the first to perish.
The planet has changed steadily for billions of years. What kind of maniac thinks they can prevent this change?
Where I sit today, there was once ice that was two to four kilometers thick. I'm happy that ice is gone. Whatever is left will continue to melt like it has been doing for thousands of years.
Life is all about balance. A lot of trees lose their leaves when this minus forty stuff rolls around. These plants breathe, just like we do. In winter, they breathe a lot less, and we breathe a lot more.
A lot of life has gone extinct over millions of years. A car breathes. A house breathes. A factory breathes. These creations of ours might not have two feet and a heartbeat but they act much like life, replacing what has died, in a sense. They call it a power plant for a reason, don't they?
Only the moronic would defend the poisoning of our planet. When it comes to producing more of what plants need to survive though, I think it would only be wise to warm the place up a bit and give those plants more room to breathe. Striking a balance after things go all out of whack seems like the only logical and natural conclusion. If that's what the world wants to do, that's what the world wants to do. Preventing the world from being the world is impossible.
The Sahara Desert was once a land full of lakes, grasslands, forests. We didn't turn the place into sand dunes. When that climate was changing, I'm sure those people were worried. Even if they knew the way the planet orbits the sun combined with some tilting action was part of the reason their world dried up, I highly doubt they'd be arrogant enough to think they could stop it from happening.
Those who packed their bags, moved on, and decided to adapt to a world that is in control — they survived. The people staying back to yell at the clouds or blaming society for making the gods angry — they died.
They're so sure of it.
The world is about to end, unless we stop it from ending.
When people know something is coming, they prepare for it.
If those people are so sure about this coming catastrophe, I wonder why they spend so much time yelling about it instead of preparing for it.
I don't want to be part of this crowd that wants to kill an entire forest so they can write about how much they care on a cardboard sign and then prance around town yelling at everyone else.
"I recycled my protest sign and in a few months it'll be the paper I wipe my ass with!"
"Hooray!"
As they distance themselves from this planet with a thin layer of shoes made from petrochemicals.
Be happy oxygen levels aren't on the rise. One spark and they'll all go up in flames, along with everything else.
I can't change the world.
You can't either.
The lesson learned is still valuable. There's nothing wrong with keeping your house clean.
A little more action and a little less overreaction.
I'm not going to tell you how to live. We all act like teenagers anyway. Children even. Don't touch that means touch that.
Maybe we're adults and should know better but this society is still a toddler. Making one huge mistake won't spell the end of everything. People learn from mistakes. Or do they?
Years and years of the same protests and the same message has yet to change anything. Society is doing the thing where people take sides. This usually causes more problems and solves nothing.
I'm not taking sides. It's not up to me to say who's right and who's wrong. I don't want to sit and argue with someone who thinks the world is ending but does nothing to prepare for it. I'm not going to laugh at the guy wearing a loincloth and riding his bicycle to work as the cars zip past either.
Nobody gave anyone a contract guaranteeing the best life ever at birth. We can write as many rules and laws as we want but that won't change the fact there are no rules. The world doesn't care.
Life's a bitch and with our luck, a week after solving these problems, that comet we saw coming from a billion miles away will wipe us all out because we decided producing rocket fuel was a bad thing.
I think it would be far more productive to be one with nature, carry on burning everything in sight, finding ways to balance things out, so Canada can be warm and I don't have deal with that minus forty stuff when it comes. Even if that means I have to live with alligators and palm trees instead of beavers and maple trees...
I'm cool with that.
P.S. All those naturally occurring forest fires up north this year was just the world making room for more Canadians.
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