The entire world passing through a strange phase of climatic conditions that the human race has never experienced before; any sane mind should be asking some tough questions.
Come to think about it, can we handle every inch of this climatic monster that unceremoniously visits us now and then?
To be honest, what have we done wrong to provoke the anger of nature or mother earth?
Or better still, did we handle climate change with kid gloves, for a problem that needed an early and tough response?
Can we reverse the course of global warming and its effects by the 10 years deadline we estimate to fix the problem?
Climate change or global warming: Is nature paying us in our coins?
How do we go about fighting these enormous challenges that climate breakdown poses to our existence which come in different forms and shapes one can think of: Storms, hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, sea level rise, extremely cold weather…etc.?
We should tell ourselves some home truth as well. Humans are destroyers. Shouldn’t we tell ourselves some home truth? It seems we humans are wired to be destroyers.
Or how can one this calamity in form of environmental destruction that’s befalling humankind? Would it not be because we’ve been extremely careless and intentionally treating what God has handed down to us without care?
Little wonder that today nature is paying us back in our coins? Of course, mammals like sharks have been chasing us from beaches and making it impossible for us to enjoy ourselves and have a good time.
As the saying goes, “Children who prevent their mother from sleeping, they too will never sleep.” Nature is giving back to us in its way.
Moreover, other animals have followed suit as bears and even porcupines make their way straight to our homes to attack, including our domestic animals (dogs, cats, and other pets in general).
What’s more, the machines we create (robots, drones) by our own hands are also waiting for their turn to take their pound of flesh from us.
As we speak, more than 27 countries around the world, excluding Ukraine, are at war. Yet hypocritically, we’re shouting about climate change and global warming, but we lack the will to stop warmongering.
You see human weakness and why we’re in the trouble in which we find ourselves today?
Our efforts to run to space (an overt aggression plan against those being up there), you wait to see how successful that would be.
If at all, let’s see if the landlords of those covetous planets would allow us humans with our nonchalant attitude to rule or attempt to kick them out without a fight.
What is happening in the whole world in general and around the United States and some of its territories in particular, leaves one without words.
By no stretch of the imagination, such catastrophes should be politicized as we sometimes experience. And such distraction has caused more harm than good.
The recent happenings in Florida, South Caroline, and Puerto Rico can’t be overemphasized. And of course, extended to the island of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the spread of draughts taking place in some parts of Africa causing food scarcity and humanitarian crises.
As previously said, these are some of the disasters caused by climatic conditions which should be a great concern to all of us.
It won’t be an exaggeration to say that the scenes of these disasters portray nothing less but a site of war for the amount of destruction they cause.
I could have bet my last penny that we in the United States are the worse hit by these climate crises.
But to my utmost surprise, after some research, my findings revealed that ours is child’s play when compared to countries like Japan, the Philippines, and Germany.
According to the GermanWatch Institute report presented in the Global Climate Risk Index 2020 during COP (Conference of the Parties), 25 in Spain; Japan, the Philippines, and Germany are considered the most affected places where climate change has hit the hardest to date.
The analysis is based on the impacts of extreme weather events and the socio-economic losses they cause.
From what I watched and saw on the TV about the happenings in Florida and SC, without exaggeration, the situation looks like a war zone comparable to the war going on in Ukraine and some cases, even worst because storms hardly leave anything in their way.
They sweep every and anything objects in their way, be it trains, trucks, bridges, houses, and cars, not to mention human beings as it left more than 60 people dead in Florida, and the counts continued.
The destructive enemy and Mother Earth.
Oh, my God, what a destructive enemy!
How long would Mother Earth endure such a brutal attack?
Would humans have an upper hand at least to contain this stubborn and invisible enemy?
To be clear, it’s a visible enemy when it comes to its catastrophe (for we can see its disastrous effects on our life).
On the other hand, however, it remains an invisible, nefarious in all senses of the word, and an incalculable, and ferocious enemy.
Imagine what would have been the case if we were engaging with a visible enemy on a one-on-one war basis! It would have been a fight to finish.
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