Global warming :|

Global warming is not a problem that ought to be addressed in international governments and schools throughout the world.

First, the effects of global warming are not sufficient to justify taking attention away from other world problems, such as nuclear arms production and economic depression. These problems are not only much more immediate and have a smaller time frame, but they are also easier to prevent.

Global warming is a steady increase in global temperature. While this may cause some species to become extinct, this is not a real problem because life will continue. Academically, if we know that a species is extinct, then we already have data and information about that organism in order to observe that it has disappeared.

The extinction of species could cause the disruption of the ecological balance in nature, but I would like to bring attention to the fact that although the human race simply living on this planet has disrupted and even destroyed many species habitats and lives, there has been no global suicide on our part to restore the balance of nature.

Both of these failures to act are a product of the fact that all life wants to survive. Physically, humans are terribly inadequate to survive in nature. With no wings, claws, fangs, strength, speed, endurance, or senses, the only advantage given to our race was in the mind. Thus in order to protect ourselves from a dangerous environment, we created a new one by destroying the old. Withdrawal from technology only gives up human's dominance over other creatures, as some religions state, and unfortunately most people cannot survive in competition to the forces and creatures in nature.

Attempting to halt global warming only postpones the inevitable. Even if human beings didn't exist on earth, ice ages and heat waves would come and go. The dinosaurs lived in a tropical climate but were extinct in the ice age, where animals like mammoths and saber toothed tigers roamed the land. Then these creatures passed away or evolved into the biospectrum we see today. Life on earth has survived climate changes, however severe, even if the lifestyles or even types of different organisms changed. We cannot hope to prevent a climate change forever, so there is no reason to be preoccupied with global warming.