Speak to My Finger

First of all I need to thank Worm for always inspiring me to have ideas for my blog entries and this entry is dedicated to him.

To start off, I was extremely mad this morning invoked by a conversation I had with my muse over dinner last night. So mad until I borrowed my mum's 2 ears to listen to my woes and thank god I felt so much better after that.

The both of us were talking about a company that deals with a natural resource and we both knew there's no such thing for a company to 'stay the same forever.' I openly joke that I was actually looking forward to the day that the company go bankrupt or something like that. And why not? How much of strategic land can that particular company go investing on? I mean S-T-R-A-T-E-G-I-C. There would definitely be an end to its vested interest. And what not? Perak, one of the states of Malaysia, used to be the world producer of tin until it ran out. And who is not evolving? I heard Shell company is also investing a lot in green technology. I'm sure they are preparing themselves for the day oil runs out. Simply because there's no such thing as infinity. If there is, everyone would be immortal. This is my conclusion.

Shortly after my joke, Worm, as usual, counter attacked my statement "Why not? There's so much of land in this world... Israel can have forest in the desert so why not?" I was pulling my horses when I was listening to that statement. I feel pity for him if I just scratch him without having concrete facts to support my counter measure statements. So I decided to do research.

Yes, it is a fact that people are now reclaiming the desert. Arizona and Egypt are such places doing so. Development is already encroaching the desert. The reason the desert is dry and arid because lack of water. If you pump water into the desert, plants will grow. Ok so what's the problem? No problem ... you just pump more water la?! Duh~ Oh yes we all can live in a desert. Certainly no problem because architects just apply bioclimatic designs to the buildings. Nothing is impossible.

Don't forget we also got a lot of land in terms of forests. We could always cut the forests to make way for development. Yea ... there's the Amazon River basin, the largest rainforest in the world, for future development. Why not? It's just land ... Won't it be a waste for the animals to live in instead of humans?

Don't forget about the mangroves... swampy areas and the ocean. Yes! Yes! Yes! let's bank on the ocean!! It's simply stupid to see those fish... sharks and whales swimming in the ocean. Let's just reclaim the sea for beach houses and don't forget major shopping malls on the beach by the beach.

And there goes on the list. Just forget about two poles. They will be melted even before you step on it. And so I just made the list of lands we could live on, reclaim and sell.

Money is evil and innocent in this context. As money is always enough for everyone on this world, many people try to take the advantage to get his or her pie so they create needs and desires for development. The more people taste about money, the more they want. And so the greed is awaken in them. There's nothing wrong to be greedy and dream of to be rich. But why do we need to consume so much of resources? Why do we want to transfer or move our problems to a new place instead of solving them? Back to houses and lands, Malaysia herself has a lot of abandoned houses which recently made heaadlights in the newspapers for sheltering drug addicts instead of needy people. There are also places that are dying and becoming day by day into slums. Why can't we revive them? The vicious cycle will go on if we just don't solve the basic problems. And then what happen when we have no more land to continue the cycle? So Worm are you going to tell me not to worry because that very fateful day will come when you are no longer lingering alive?

Next is solving a problem will only create another problem. Yes... reclaiming lands we never thought of is solving the limited landspace for the exponential population. But what about water? It seems like many things can't go without water. The afforestation in Israel is the initiative of the Jewish National Fund foresters. They used water, chemical and the sort to create the forests. There are 6.4 billion of people in this world. Do we have enough of water to feed this amount of people and human activities in the long run? Oh yes, I forget, we can always convert the sea into drinking water. And then what's next to be converted into portable water? Blood? War?

"Business as usual" is what going around in many people's head. Money comes first. Why do we need to care since the younger generations should thank us for making their live much more comfortable then ours? We make this live comfortable for them so it's their job to clean up our actions. Is that a viable statement? Why not? Somebody said "It's my job to take care of the environment" in my face. But what if this is not what our younger generations want? If you are a parent, do you want to see your kids dying at an immature age? Do you want your kids to die at a very young age? Do you want to see your kids to suffer? In another way is do you want to spend more money on your kids' medication than enjoying life? Are we not unfair to them? No they don't. That's why Rosa Park fights for equal human rights. We are now seeing younger generations fighting for cleaner environment. Business is not as usual anymore. And you want to develop more lands? I think you now need to ask the citizens first. No? You joking me? Just look at the Friends of Kota Damansara fighting for their "lungs".

There's a limit to everything. Even to politics, that's why Malaysia has a political tsunami in March 2008. Enough is enough is what the citizens lauded. So is Mother Nature. Enough is enough. Let's look forward to more natural disasters and deaths in near future.

politics
Politics sucks..period.

yes I am still alive and thanks for thinking of me! I meant to comment back the other day but forgot so here I am today!

Johnna
» Art4TheHomeless on 2008-05-17 03:02:12

You know you can plant mangrove trees in deserts right?
» Nuttz on 2008-05-17 09:30:24

hhhh... i told my mum... natural disasterS today R created by us.. cause we causes so much of trouble to our lovely Mother Earth...

well maybe im wrong.. but who knows.... :P

cincang the worm worm... yay
» jolenesiah on 2008-05-17 11:31:26

i do i do but not everything is in the notes and all the answer that I want is in the textbook.
» Nuttz on 2008-05-18 09:42:56

so true... money, created by humans but controls mankind
» merrick on 2008-05-18 01:49:17

very well written and thought out! I agree, there are limits to everything in life. Too much of a good thing will spoil it for the rest of the world. Human beings are selfish.
» (71.188.251.24) on 2008-05-18 09:47:35

ahh ^ that last one was me >__<
» jfo (71.188.251.24) on 2008-05-18 09:48:01

yeah nicholas cage was a really weird actor to pick for that role... especially after watching national treasure and then watching the weatherman it just didnt work.
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