You know, the majority of scientists now agree that global warming is occurring and a sizable proportion of them are coming to agree that humans are in large part to blame. (Source: I read this somewhere. *grin*)

The thing to take from this is that they MIGHT be right. IF they are and we do nothing we are being criminal in our treatment of future generations. If they are NOT right and we act then we are taking sensible precautions and leaving the world cleaner for those future generations. So it's a win-win, right?

Well, yes, but only if you can think beyond next year's profits. As I understand it the people who fight hardest against the idea of global warming are the companies who would have to change their ways. It is possible to make cars that burn cheaper, cleaner fuel but that would require change and change is scary. It is possible to make power using cleaner technology but that would again require change. Plus all this change would require money and the proper use of money is to take it as profit.

I live in the western Pacific Ocean. I have friends who are from some of the smaller islands in Micronesia. They remember their islands being larger. There is evidence all around us of the rise and fall of oceans. I live on the side of a mountain. I think I am safe from all but the highest, roughest ocean hijinks. But my friend Manny comes from Polowat. They are not much higher than sea level there. The people of Yap, Satawal, Palau, Pagan, and all the other little islands have every right to keep their homes but the say the islands keep getting smaller.

Humans MIGHT be to blame this time. They certainly were not in the past. But we MIGHT be this time. Do we really want to take that chance?