swelter and sweaty, it’s global warming and energy crisis

i feel the air is sweltering lately, days and nights are sweaty. it must be the global warming effect. i think there are two important issues that the world encounter today. it’s the global warming and the energy crisis, both are connected. i remember reading a small book written by prof. prasasto satwiko not long ago. it’s about bad things or as he called “desease” that causing energy crisis.

i would like to share a few of what i red and hope that people who read this will have a better understanding and can do something to make this world better. it’s started from you, don’t wait for others. if it’s not happening in our lifetime, hopefully it would be for our children.

our knowledge and technology are getting more and more advanced, but why do the earth’s getting worst in most aspect?

1. science is just science
“knowledge is nothing until you put it in practice”. we have enough knowledge to understand that breaking the harmony of nature is a bad thing to do. but we keep doing it because we want to live a lifestyle which makes us feel comfortable physically and psychologically. we reconstruct, adjust and sort science to suit our lifestyle. whatever is right but not suitable for our lifestyle, we put them aside, even betrayed. the separation between the truth in science and the way we live is passed from generation to generation. as time goes by, the separation becomes usual and formed into tradition and culture.

2. narrow interpretation of energy
energy as an activator system for life on earth has been studied and recognized for a long time, but not many people who use energy in their daily lives realize that they’re actually involved in the system. what a scientist called as energy is actually the same as what a monk would called as spirit. but we can’t explain it’s origin. empirically, the way people use energy is showing an isolated attitude. the isolated way of thinking will not help to understand the energy problem as a whole.

3. the jail of consumerism
our wants is not always our needs. mostly we buy things for prestige. you buy a luxurious but fuel-extravagant vehicle when your need could actually be fulfilled by a simple fuel-thrifty vehicle.

4. meat consumption
United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that livestock production generates nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases, more than transportation. greenhouse gases are good for maintaining the earth’s temperature, but too much of it can be dangerous, it’s global warming.

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