Environment

The impact on the Environment will be much greater than terrorism could ever be, so why don't we care?

So they are saying that the environmental issue, and impact, is becoming a lot worse than the terrorism issue.  I know that it is true.  I used to lie in bed at night and think about the impact that terror can and does have on us, whether in our everyday actions, or as a direct impact.  As one who has spent her life learning and understanding terrorism and counter- terrorism, I have a general understanding of how scary it really is - but now, my bedtime thoughts have changed to our future based on the lack of understanding, or simply caring enough about the World, and our lack of action surrounding fixing it.

I have never been an environmental freak.  I always cared, but it was more of just trying to help a bit here and there.  My opinions have rapidly changed in the past few months.  My turning point?  Watching the news one night, and seeing an emerging story on the rapid melting of our polar ice caps (within 40-50 years, they said), as one of the last stories that they covered that night.  By airing it at the end of the news program, they showed the lack of importance of the issue.  It should have been one of the top stories, as we will all be directly affected by it in the not so distant future.  I was seething, but my husband, and everybody else I spoke to, didn't seem to really be bothered.

Now, recent multi-national cooperation in researching the effects of global warming have come out, basically saying we, as humans, are responsible for the vast majority of global warming.  Yet still, we are having a difficult time accepting it into our collective consciousness. 

Terrorism is scary, it is an international problem affecting every continent except Antarctica, and it affects us because it is happening to us now.  But the vast effects of our environmental destruction, which are only beginning to appear, in every way supersedes the effects that terror can ever have on us. This, coming from one who has directly experienced terrorism, should not be taking lightly.