Right. I have some bitching to do, so sit back, listen and judge later.

My mother told me a few days ago that the committee hired to investigate global warming by the U.N released their findings, basically stating that global warming IS happening and has been happening for some time now. It got buried. By the U.N.

Want to know why? I'm going to tell you anyway, but be forewarned that I'm about to make multiple slanderous statements towards the human race in general. They aren't going to be nice.

Well. There seems to be two type of people in the world when it comes to global warming. The first believes that it's happening because of our own stupidity and that we, right now, are responsible for what is happening and reversing it. I am one of these. The second believe that global warming is a good thing, because it opens up all sorts of new real estate prospects. Old fogies are moving up to Sudbury because it's not as cold anymore. This second group seems to make up a large percentage of the population, otherwise we wouldn't be in this mess; it would have been cleaned up already. The first group is largely made up of extremist environmentalists, who never get anything done but chaining themselves to trees (a noble effort, but it just means that every tree but the one they're sitting in will get cut down), putting sugar in the gas tanks of the bulldozers, spiking the tires of said bulldozers and other various acts of pseudo-terrorism. There aren't as many of them as there should be.

The extreme stupidity of the second group of people surprises me, though I couldn't tell you why. I should have expected it, because, according to my grandfather, 99.9% of the planet's population of 6 or so billion people are stupid. This is obvious, given the shit load of problems that we're in now.

When I was thirteen and in grade eleven, I took a course called Environmental Studies. I learned there of the effects of global warming and everything therein. The attitude towards it then from everyone else pissed me off too, because there was all this "debate" going on about whether or not it was actually happening. They blamed the minute changes in the climates on planetary cycles, the destruction of species on man's inability to stop expanding. They ignored the evidence blaring in their face that their industrial enterprises were destroying their own planet.

Humanity's arrogance will be it's downfall.

My dad pointed out not too long ago that the politics involved are much more complex than anyone could guess. I hate politics; while necessary for the stopping of wars (something we should be able to do on our own, but no! Our primitive nature causes us to need ambassadors and other ambition-driven fruitcakes to do that for us), all that happens in peace time is that one ends up with a bunch of sniveling beaurocrats in positions of power who are basically all talk and no show, and when they DO do something, it's usually stupid and more detrimental to everyone than anything their predecessors did. They whine and fuss about how things are not working, and how SOMEONE has to do something, but they don't take into account the fact that if they just did instead of whining, things would be better. What's worse, is they're almost always Liberals. And no one else is much better, given the options for Prime Minister that cropped up in the last election. Simply put, the Canadian idea of democracy has become a joke, a farce at which everyone else is laughing their asses off. It is pathetic, has never really worked in all it's history, and has ended up with a complete and utter fool in the position of dictator except without that formal of a title.

It is this stupid game of politics that is behind the reason of why the U.N buried this important paper. Mostly because of the positions of the United States and Canada on this accord to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted. Basically, they won't sign it. And all for one specific reason: money. Oh yes, the five-letter word which is basically the world's problem and always will be. You see, there's more oil in the Alberta tar sands than there is in the entire country of Kuwait. We get money for trading this to the United States. They get to play with cars for a few more years. And so do we, because we'll just buy the refined product back from them. For the United States, the money problem comes in with the cleaning bill. The poor countries of the U.N get credits - in other words, the U.N is footing the bill. Poor old President Dubyah has to pay for it himself. So what is a couple billion dollars to the United States? I'm quite sure they've got plenty. They could always start overtaxing the Oil Tycoons if they ran out anyway. Or get one of them to pay it. They could stop subsidizing stupid little programs that no one uses anyway.

But why bother when you have a huge supply of oil sitting just over the border, and the idiots in charge of your neighbouring country are willing to give it to you? Not to mention all that oil sitting under the formerly-protected National Parks and in Alaska. And the rest that you're already getting from the Arabs and Iraqis and the Iranians. Who wants to live in a clean, pollution free environment when they can live in a capitalized, money and ambition driven, shit hole? The AMERICANS, that's who!

The damn bastards in charge of both Canada and the United States didn't sign the accord. They wanted to "look into" the effects of the greenhouse gasses before consenting to anything. The arrogant bastards ignored what has been staring them in the face for at LEAST four years, and many before that. They go about their normal every day business, which is generally allowing German and Japanese logging companies to come in and turn two thousand year old trees into paper, which they sell back to us dirt cheap, and arresting the seventy-five year-old grandmothers for sitting in the middle of the road to stop the trucks. She's been in jail for six months! Six friggin'-goddamn-bloody months for trying to stop a forest she grew up with and that has been there since the fucking ROMANS were around from being cut down and made into paper! The very same news papers owned by the same people who own the logging companies. Surprisingly enough, they're the one's who feed us all the "world" news. Their version of the world news. With all the important bits excluded, such as the fact that it is corporations who actually run the world. Not countries, not kings, but those who sit high above in their steel and glass houses, the true spiders of human kind. They weave webs with our lives, and no amount of bug spray will kill them, for corporations are the best kind of terrorist cell: they're everywhere, their numbers are unimaginable, and if you take down one, another takes it's place. You cannot fight back; you cannot win. It makes me so unbelievably angry, at the stupidity of mankind and beaurocracies, because they are basically the play things of those corporations, set to keep the general population busy with debate and scandals. I wish that they would get the gasoline hose out of their ass and realize what EXACTLY is going on here, before I end up picking them off with a sniper rifle. Or getting someone I know to do it, since he's a trained sniper. Either one, before I kill them. If I'm arrested and imprisoned for life, it won't help the cause much.

A piece of ice the size of the Netherlands is disappearing from the icecaps every day.

And They want to study the effects of the gasses.

The frequency of storms and natural disasters is increasing due to conflicting weather patterns.

And They want to study the effects of the gasses.

Sub-tropical life forms are moving up into the sub-tundra (where we live) and bedding down.

And They want to study the effects of the gasses.

Cultures that have been around for longer than the Romans are facing drastic changes to their way of life and to how they get food.

And They want to study the gasses.

What is this human inability to leave something alone? Why must we seize an area, untouched before, and turn it into a subdivision so people who are about to die can have some where to live, despite the fact that they've already been living somewhere else? Why do we have to sell the logging rights to Age-old forests so that we can buy paper? Why do we have to destroy more than we already have? Shouldn't everything that has been happening say something? We need to change our way of life. We need to buy those electric cars, to take the plunge and make them more cheaper than they are. We need to shut down the oil companies, and have them clean up their mess, even if a few people have to have a little "accident" to encourage excellent work. We need to lose this "we are human and therefore demigods so we can do whatever we damn well please with our environment despite the fact that we're not really the only ones on the planet who are going to be affected by the shit we put into the atmosphere every day and into the oceans and rivers and lakes and even into our own lungs because humans will survive and will continue" attitude before we kill ourselves. What price must we pay before we realize that we've gone too far? That we've over stepped the boundary between civilization and menace to existence? Before the blue and white jewel of Earth becomes the brown and more brown eyesore? Before we're forced to build Bio-domes so we can survive, or colonize the moon, or Mars, or the moons of Mars, or other moons, or find some planet so that we can repeat our mistakes? How much longer before we're forced to do just that?

I hope, for all our sakes, that we accept with our remaining dignity what we have done and just clean it up. I do not want to lose this home, this life, this planet and all its beauty. I do not want to be forced to colonize a barren rock because we made too many mistakes with this one. Or to die slowly, breathing canned air because the atmosphere is too messed up to be of any use.