Spark the Change

I cannot anymore recall the number of times that my parents and grandparents have told me how today’s generation is very different from their time. They kept on saying that we’re lucky because we have computers nowadays, and that they only had typewriters. We have cars now but back then they had to walk. We have air conditioners to conquer the hot summer season and they had none. We now have many gadgets and appliances that make our life easier. More importantly too they say, we have good electricity today unlike before. And true enough, there really are many reasons to regard our generation luckier than our ancestors. Imagine if we aren’t as advanced today. Imagine if we don’t have these keyboards to type to, no iPods to listen to and no televisions screens to watch to. It’s going to be hard. But on the other end of all these innovations that the new generation have come up, what are the consequences? Two words: Global Warming; or Climate Change, or Climate Crisis or worse, Planetary Emergency. Yes you read it right. Sad as it is, even human development has its own corresponding and unwanted consequences. It is called global warming as a whole, a term we’ve been hearing so much these past few years. Scientists claim it to be happening right now and that it can be attributed to human activity. They claim that it is worsening and that it is because of our increasing carbon emissions. Many people and organizations have already been campaigning to help alleviate this crisis. Usually, they are the famous political figures like Al Gore and Barack Obama as well as Hollywood actors who. Usually too they are the famous organizations like the Environmental Protection Agency and other environmentalist groups. However, little do we know that even common people, especially the youth can also do their share. As part of the youth today, we too can do something about this. We may be incapable financially or politically but being creative and energetic human beings, we too can