Why Should You Listen?

Non-believers are sometimes ignorant and over-confident towards our Earth and its ability to support us as a species. Others are just too scared to look at the possibility and ignore it as best they can.

Neither of these people are to be blamed. Generations of faults and mistakes with no one to admit to them have put that exact over-confidence in people. The people who are at fault are our world leaders, who have ignored warnings and drove us further to an Earth full of pollution. This is where the over-confidence comes from. The ones that we follow.

Those that fear a global superstorm have a very good reason to fear it and are only following human nature. However, with the help of a friend and ease at mind, these fears can be overcome and they can finally come to understand the theory.

The last group of people are skeptics. These people don’t necessarily disagree entirely with the theory and its main point, they just tend to keep science in the lines of realm and help us look at all possibilities. I am a skeptic myself and always look to challenge a theory.

I can safely say that the majority of the people I have spoken to don’t know of the threat or just don’t believe that this thing could actually happen. They think it is totally fiction when tornadoes fly about as in the movie The Day After Tomorrow, but in recent news (July, 2004) we saw Kansas endure 19 tornadoes in one day. These outbreaks aren’t unheard of by any means, yet still, some people just didn’t think it could happen possibly because they’ve never heard about it and/or think life isn’t that unpredictable and extreme. The Holocaust and 9/11 are both events we never anticipated, but they still happened and they were both devastating. We’ve got to realize that bad things happen. Most of us have grown up in a democratic, well-off country, thinking that we are safe for life, yet we are not. History has shown nature to be just as violent as humans. The truth is that the Earth experiences a lot of extremely violent weather systems. Hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms and hail just begin to tell what we have endured. To take the Earth for granted would be like swearing at a God back in ancient Greek times, and my people, we have done a lot of cussing lately.

We have been given a theory that says sooner or later, the Earth will restore itself through a series of violent storms. Let’s not go crazy yet, let’s sit down and figure out the science and see whether or not it’s possible and probable. That is what logic would say, but politicians ignore and ignore until the people are too strong of a voice, and then they take forever to debate about it. We don’t have forever…not nearly.

Now let’s take a look at the risk we take by not paying attention to the theory:

We run the chance of two billion people dying. That should be enough, but let’s carry on. These people will be from the developed countries, and will be the educated ones on this planet. The amount of damage that the storm will do will be priceless. Farmland will be destroyed, possible and probable that a food shortage would occur, causing more deaths as the days progress. Countries will be limited to the ones still alive and will be run by dictators or other unwanted governments that would get in the way of a critical need of leadership at that time. All this could lead to a total extinction of our civilization, if everything goes right…that is to say, wrong.

Now let’s look at what would happen if we do pay attention to the theory:

Economies would be held back until new ways are established. People will have to be more environmentally friendly and take more time to do so. Brief period of unemployment would occur as companies shift into more environmentally friendly systems.

There is a slight edge to the “do pay attention” scenario, being that if the superstorm happens, we will not have an economy, and unemployment will be huge as countries without many jobs to hand out will be crowded in with refugees. As we can see, we cannot take this risk. We just cannot. Many of us have children, and to think of them would be to think of what could happen. They have not lived yet; they haven’t even been given the chance to make our mistakes for themselves. To ignore this would be death. And death, in this case, is avoidable. This storm doesn’t have to happen, not at all.

Every person has a responsibility to look at the theory, be informed, and decide for themselves. Just take a look. Save a life.