DOOMS DAY IS HERE - GLOBAL WARMING

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When we speak global warming, most people think it’s something that’s for the future, that it’s an event that will still take like a thousand years to come into effect. The existing ignorance and the inability of man to care for things that really matter is appalling. For example, we can spend our time all day long doing things that harm us on a daily basis and not even flinch.

For many of us, there are these glorious well-mapped-out experiences we will love to have, there are so many things we wanna do while we are still among the living on planet earth, but keeping planet earth safe isn’t one of them.

When we hear the word ‘doom’s day’, we gaze into the future and our imaginations mislead us into extrapolating fictional, cataclysmic and unforgiving events. We associate these ‘impressive’ events with doom’s day, while, a ‘less impressive’ event like global warming could easily be the doom’s day event.

We think that doom’s day will come when there is a solar flare outrage or when a major asteroid hits the earth or when for one reason or another the earth stops rotating or even when an alien attack happens.

While the events above might fit into the criteria of a doom’s day event, I would love to bring it to your notice that doom’s day is already upon us and the leading most likely event to bring suffering to mankind is global warming.

Global warming is man’s doing and it’s disappointing that we still engage in major activities and do several forbidden things like deforestation to exacerbate global warming.

One trait that is consistent in the Homo sapiens species is selfishness. We Homo sapiens are just selfish and all we think about is ourselves, always us first before we consider any other species, the environment and planet earth. Well, one thing is certain, If we don’t start putting planet earth first then we will loose her.

There are two major events of heat waves going on in the world today, one in India and the other in Pakistan. The first was the Indian heat waves which claimed more than 2,500 lives, than came the Pakistan heat wave which has already claimed more than a thousand life. In Karachi, Pakistan, it so bad that a worker at the grave yard couldn’t find space to dig new graves for the dead, the death rate exceeded the cemetery capacity and he now even has to dig up old graves to bury people in them. Also, more than one body has to be buried in one grave. Now that’s what you call doom’s day.

Let me bring in a comparison. The middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) in South Korea has claimed only 31 lives in total since it started. MERS is a virus. This shows that the global warming can be far more devastating than an infectious disease spread.

The polar ice caps are melting, the sea level is rising leading to major flooding events, heat waves are taking place. These all point fingers to global warming. It is also worth noting that in the last quarter of last year, the mean temperature recorded on earth was the highest ever recorded in history and it didn’t take time for that record to be broken. In the first quarter of this year, the mean temperature recorded became the highest ever in history.

You can act like these gruesome events haven’t affected you yet. Well, it’s just a matter of time before other places heat up to the extent that they start dropping humans like flies. We haven’t done enough to ensure the safety of our planet, but we’ve exploited her in every possible way and there must be consequences.

We are citizens of earth and earth is our home, it would only be reasonable if we start taking measures to combat global warming and keep our home (earth) safe. Think green! Go green!. 

20 QUOTES THAT WILL GET YOU FIRED UP

There are times in life when you don’t even know what you are doing anymore, when the burden becomes heavier than the desire to live and deliver, when the day becomes gloomy and the nights empty, those moments when it seems like you have been handed a tougher test than you could ever handle. One of the many remedies comes from the words of individuals that have been through similar situations before. Here are 20 quotes from individuals that have played the game of life and won (or are still winning). Their words are worth heeding to and their life stories are worth learning from. 

If you want to produce unreasonable results in your life, like living your dream and taking charge of your destiny, you’ve got to be an reasonable person. ~ Les Brown

We are all self made but only the successful will admit it. ~ 

When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life, life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, once you learnt that, you will never be the same again. ~ Steve Jobs

Be careful who you pretend to be; you might forget who you are. ~ Dale partridge

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to d o what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. ~ Steve Jobs.

Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they are 75. ~ Benjamin Franklin. This quote is trying to explain that most people aren’t really living, they are merely existing. They spend their lives merely existing until they are old and worn out and stop breathing.

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune. ~ Jim Rohn

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~ Scott Hamilton

Small minds discuss people; average minds discuss events; great minds discuss ideas. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You’ve got to find what you love, and that is the same for work as it is for your lovers. Steve Jobs

The version you are today is good but it ain’t great and it definitely ain’t phenomenal, but if your ready to make some adjustments, there is nothing you can’t have ~ Eric Thomas.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? too often it’s because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Not only is it possible for you to have your dream, but it’s necessary, it’s necessary that you go for what is yours in the universe. ~ Les Brown

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ~ Mae West

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance. ~ George Bernard Shaw

When it’s obvious that goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ~ Confucius

Every man dies, not every man really live. ~ William Wallace

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; If in terms of 10 years, plant a tree; If interns of 100 years, teach the people. ~ Confucius

When you feel like quitting, think of  why you started. ~ Dale Partridge

Don’t go through life, Grow through life. ~ Eric Butterworth

YOUTH SPEAK IS NOT A ONE DAY AFFAIR

Youth speak day just passed. If you don't know what it is, it's a day organised by AIESEC in order to get youths to speak up about issues they wish to get solved. The thing is there is this kind of a once-in-a-lifetime behaviour that youths tend to pull up during this day and think they will just spit out all that they stand for in words or even write them down on a cardboard, then just forget about it till another youth speak day.

The population of the youths in the world is amazing as it is higher than it has ever been in history and people such as Malala Yousfzai, Jack Andraka and Peter Spiegel to name a few are doing is incredible and f***ing awesome. Whenever I read about these people and hear them speak, they fascinate me and keep me motivated, they make it seem like all things are possible.

Am from Nigeria and the sad thing is that the youths in my home country don't seem to be this enthused or hungry like these other youths abroad. In fact, most of them don't know what's going on in the world. It seems like their tongues have been glued to their palate and they have been duct taped and told  not to move an inch. You know what?, even if they've been told not to do so, the alarming aspect of this is that they've chosen to obey the voice that quietened them. They've chosen not to speak up and stir the wheel, they've chosen not to take control.

The youth speak AIESEC  reminded me of how cold and subdued the youths in the nation seem to be. I am for youth empowerment, education, equality, e.t.c. and against child abuse, child labour, child marriage, e.t.c. I know the power that the youths have within them to break barriers, start-up the next big thing, speak and draw attentions.

The problem is that it seems that it's only few youths that actually know about this power they've got. Youth speak is meant to be an everyday event and not once in a month, a year or a lifetime.

There are various issues facing the economy and when you turn to most youths, all they end up doing is complaining. They complain and forget that they can make the difference they wanna see in the world, they forget that we all have the responsibility to come up with practical solutions for these issues. Instead, so much time is spent on complaining and talking about the problems instead of bringing up solutions for them.

The world will not change itself, violence will not solve the issues of racism, child labour and abuse will not come to an end if we don't act, equality will not become reality if we fail to address it and the environment won't be saved if we don't become the saviours.

Just pick an issue or issues you wish to see solved and then brainstorm on practical solutions for it and then start focusing on these solutions instead of the problems, the work on making your hypothesized solution become reality.