A sense of purpose

Finally, perhaps, this blog may have found a sense of purpose. After having blogged on anything, everything, and more often than not, nothing, I have found a topic that I feel I will be able to write blogs that are interesting, informative and implementable. Well, at least one of the above, some of the time.

Planet Earth, how we are messing with it and how we can begin to fix it. 

It all started for me when Al Gore invented global warming. Apart from letting the biggest idiot in the world become president of US&A, Al Gore's biggest crime was global warming. If it wasnt for him, the world would have been perfectly ok - no warming, no climateincrisis, nothing - right uptill the day everything went up in flames. The Day after Tomorrow, so to speak.

After you see his spectacular documentary An Inconvenient Truth, if you are not moved to action - then there is obviously something wrong with you. You may think he is alarmist, (I personally think he might be playing it down a little bit, just to not panic you too much), but you cannot deny the issue.

There are a million other issues to be dealt with like education, healthcare, free speech,human rights,  democracy, protectionism, but this one seems to be closer to my heart than others. So I will try and stay close to this track from now on.

Here is an interesting video, for those with ample bandwidth - Its from Ted.com which is a fantastic site to say the least.

Its about how Willie Smits converted a patch of land in Indonesia from a barren, fire-prone worthless patch to a beautiful, self-sustaining, green landscape. Its not simple to do, its not a quick fix - but these are beginnings of a solution to a problem that we, humans, have brought upon ourselves. 

Save the rainforest, Save the world!