Listen to Gore

I don't think it's cool to rubbish global warming as mass-scientific-community-paranoia anymore. It's for real. This much seems obvious to all beyond doubt. Now that this question seems unimportant and not worth arguing on, we must now all move on to asking each other the next inescapable question: When are we going to do something about it?

All efforts so far to get all nations to develop a consensus on how and when to tackle the problem have failed. Why's that? Because Economics comes over Environment. The developing nations claim that if the developed nations led by the US which are the major contributors to this problem refuse to take action, then why should we? After all China and India( they say ) have a right to pollute the world while moving into the big league of the super rich.

The blame game never ends on the big stage. No one refuses to back down for fear of being mistaken as weak by domestic audiences. But what nations do not seem to realize is that they hurt their domestic populace even more by sidelining the issue of Global Warming and delaying action taken.

It seems more and more evident in the present global scenario that for absolutely anything substantial to get done, action needs to be taken at the micro level. At the so called grassroots. No longer does the real power to make things happen lie with the bureaucratic government machinery of our large, inefficient governments. It's people power. The story of people power has been made possible by technology. Cheap technology has delivered power into the hands of the common man in every nation like never before.

As a rule therefore, what must be done, must be entrusted to the masses, not the leaders. There are exceptions like Al Gore who have the gut to talk about the real issues in spite of ignorant domestic masses rooting for fuel-guzzling SUV's and powerful industrial lobbies hollering for the status quo to escape spending a few bucks. But the average politician is out to score brownie points with those who have so brazenly rubbished the Global Warming theory.