A better world

It’s been a while since our last dive. COVID had disrupted the schedule; the landscape had been changed. Plastics now rule the oceans. Heat and drought and fires surround the planet. The earth has never seen this before. All the continents were affected, no one was spared.

The shortage of food was apparent, coupled by the war in Ukraine. The heartland was deprived of its harvest. For once the world would know her value. War for the heartland was nothing new. Catherine the Great had seen her bounty and conquered it several times in the past.

But the scourging heat came like a tsunami as climate change catastrophies could not wait to strike. The Planet had had enough. She began to cry and her tears flooded the plains as the outer regions burned.

One by one Arab springs engulf countries as people revolt to change their leadership and now inflation and recession and the cost of food reach out. The spider’s web has no limits. The world has become an app you just delete and restrict, block copy or paste and change the leadership – no one is spared.

Then winter sets in; the cold has no conscience, it freezes you to death. How many more seasons will it take until the end is near?

We are short of sugar and food and energy.

But do we really care for a better world as the world leaders ignore climate change? Sadly they don’t. – Antonio M. Claparols, president, Ecological Society of the Philippines