Earth 2100

For those of you who didn’t get a chance to watch ABC’s Earth 2100, go to their website and catch some glimpses into the show.

When I first started watching it yesterday, I was not sure whether I really liked the approach they took to telling the story.  I was wrong.  It was a very creative way to keep me from falling into the trance of watching a “TV Show” or “Movie” and kept in the present to the information that was being shared.

Although I’m not one for watching, reading or being captured by the Global Warming Doom and Gloom (I believe it exists, but am not a prone to the panic tactics that many use)  This show however, does make you really, really think about the current state of affairs of our global attitude towards the very eventual outcome of Global Warming and what needs to be done NOW to side-step this disastrous potential future.

Along with the doom and gloom was the amazing job we have done to create technologies to present such an outcome.  But the thing that really caught me was that so  much of this is based on economics!  Money?  Our governments and Corporations would rather the Earth be devastated by climatic global change because it costs too much?

I think we really need to ask ourselves and our individual governments and demand that they begin working together and find the solutions to these global problems.  Perhaps a percentage of each country’s gross national budget is put into a world technology fund that is used to start making the changes throughout the world

We are a species that waits until we no longer have a choice before we move on a solution.  WHAT WILL BE THE EVENT THAT FORCES OUR HAND?  WILL IT BE TOO LATE WHEN WE REALIZE FINALLY TAKE ACTION?