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As I write this piece, I'm sitting in my back garden, the sun's shining and a gentle breeze caresses my face.
Ahhh, it's a beautiful world it really is.
But, not according to the nearly President, Al Gore; according to him, and his recent movie, An Inconvenient Truth, we're just about at the end. The damage perpetrated on the Earth by human pollution of all kinds is wide-ranging. Seas are rising; glaciers are melting; forests are dwindling (and CO2 is increasing).

Well, that may well be true, however there is a certain belief that this is simply a cycle; a cycle that occurs every 10,000 years (remember we and our detrimental influence have only been here for about 2 of those 10).
Many scientists believe this (at least the non-prophetic ones). Furthermore, if this is the case then the cycle, if it occurs every 10,000 years, could well last for, what, a thousand, five hundred, one hundred? Any way you look at it, it's a long time to put up with El Nino type weather.
We're told that we must reduce our emissions; that it's not yet too late, that if we all pull together, Kyoto-wise, we'll be able to pull it back from the brink.
With a population of six billion and rising, finding a way to exist in such numbers is proving to be the challenge to end all challenges.
The Dead Sea is now a trickle according to reports. The once holy Dead Sea is getting smaller and smaller. What's left is being plundered' to use the actual term in the report, by a huge minerals company. Before our very eyes the Sea is dying. And for those whose only concern is financial, the report goes on to assert that buildings' foundations on the edge are in danger of collapse. Tch! It's a sad indictment that the final persuasion comes down to the cold, hard stuff'.
An unstoppable force, man's desire for wealth and power, consumes all.

Moreover, what if it's too late and we can't actually pull it back no matter what we do? No-one in any government is going to admit to such a thing because if they do, well the response will undoubtedly be one of apathy. Well, if it's too late, what's the point in trying anymore?

Or maybe Mother Earth and her weather patterns is just so big, (and we're so insignificant) that nothing we do makes the slightest difference.
We as a species are destructive it's as simple as that and if as some believe, Mother Earth is a living single organism with countless parts, she may just step in and take control.
A recent report from the WWF, claims that in the last three decades three hundred

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