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Global Warming For years people have been saying that global warming is neigh, and the evidence has been their, however, it's always been far to far away for anyone to realistically care. I live in Toronto Canada. When you think of Canada you think of the cold artic, and for the most part your right, but this is Toronto, it's the southern most major city and a mer 1500KM (800M) from the gulf of Mexico, and more then 3000KM from the arctic circle, not the arctic, but the arctic circle. A few nights ago on January 10th 2005 I was sitting out in the hot tub meditating, enjoying one of the comforts of modern living, when i realized something was very wrong. I look around me, and I realized I could not see the light of Toronto, which is understandable, except it was winter, when the snow should have reflected all of the light into the air, the problem was their was no snow on the ground. This was extremely odd, for it was January, and no snow. When I first arrived in Toronto, in 1997 it snowed so hard in November that I was not allowed to go outside, we must have had 4 feet of snow that year. Now fast forward 7 years, and i have noticed every year less and less snow, until this year, their was none. Having found out the source of the problem, i went back to my meditation. No, their was still something wrong. I looked around once more, and realized, their was tree frogs chirping. It was January and it had become so warm that the tree frogs had come out of their hibernation. Every night for about three nights the chirping got less and less until I assume, they all died. Now for those nay sayers against global warming, sighting there is no proof, consider that this summer their will be no tree frogs. Consider that the polar bears are starving to death and consider the Innu can no longer hunt on the ice drifts. This is but the first of the major cities to get hit by global warming, it is the fourth largest city in North America. So what are we to do? Of course you'll say it's my generations responsibility to fix it. But i say you this. If we are to follow in your foot steps, and you are to be our examples, and mentors, how can you expect us to fix your problem. You will now of course say, it's not your generations fault, it was the generation before you. They will of course say without that pollution we wouldn't have the society we have today. I ask you, when will the cycle of excuses end? We can not except to grow forever. At some point in our growth we must say, enough luxury is enough. We need to decide how much luxury we want and for how many years we can support that life style. I do not believe our current life style can be supported for more then a generation. So, is our generation the generation to ruin the world for the next one?
