Just A Thought

Just a Thought

Learning about a time when it was possible to find “new land”, to be the first to step foot on a beach where no one foot had ever stepped before is exciting. Imagine living at a time, when no one really knew what the world beyond looked like.

In your Ocean Use and Management class you spoke of our descendants either looking back at us in the year 2007 and thinking “what were they thinking… not doing anything about the problems that Canada and the world are facing with the melting ice in the Arctic?” or “Wow, what a difference they made… how exciting to live in 2007 and be able to achieve what our ancestors achieved”.
It seems more believable to think that we are capable of making advances, of doing something about our problems and not just talking about them. I think back to the explorers who took a leap out into the unknown in search of something they had no idea about; that at one point in our history we did not know that a whole other continent existed. With the technology and expertise we have today, one would think it to be a simple task to tackle the environmental problems we have caused; whether the problem is an oil spill from a ship transporting oil for the use of humans, or the ice melting in the Arctic due to global warming from greenhouse gas emissions. The impact of man on Earth has been devastating, but we have the knowledge to stop and reverse this trend. Do we have the will?