Dear Diary...
Downfall.
dimanche 31 mai 2009

My Chinese enrichment teacher showed the class a picture today. A picture of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, dated at least a decade back. In the picture, The Oriental Pearl was standing oh-so tall, and there were no other skyscrapers in sight.

Then he talked about working near the building, and how he could see the tall towering, intimidating building right outside his window. He also told us that the area used to be a 农村 (village), farming and all that kind of agricultural stuff. Right then he said something interesting, that set me thinking. "突然间,那里冒出了这么多大厦,农村都不见了.哪我想,我们吃什么?" (translated: Suddenly, skyscrapers started appearing in the area and the rural area disappeared. Without the farms what are we going to eat?) and he laughed.

I thought, what he said is quite true. Our lofty ambitions are going to kill us. All of us wants to be successful, to have our own office and all. New companies are being set up everyday, more farmers are evicted so that their land can be developed. Things as such are happening every day. One day, there'll be nobody who is willing to dedicate his life to agriculture. Our selfish development and industrialisation and expansion is going to kill us all.

Argh. Just look into the future. So bleak.

Development will kill us all.

When will we learn to be content? sigh.

Furthermore, expansion, development and industrialisation causes one big and common problem. Pollution. Humans are in a development frenzy. Look at how high our carbon footprint have shot up. We humans, are the champions of the blame game, believe me. I read and article last year in The Straits Times. In Australia, the Australians were encouraged to consume more kangaroos, because they have a relatively high methane/carbon footprint.

There's no way I can conceal my shock. How much methane can a kangaroo release. Anymore than us humans? No way.

Cars, electricity, damned smokers, campfires, incinerators, war, construction, blahyadablah. All of that consumes resources and turns them into smoke. Like, literally.

When are we ever going to wake up. :/

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