Why An inconvenient Truth?

Before watching An Inconvenient Truth, I never concerned about Global Warming which has become the crucial issue nowadays. I read a lot about it from newspapers and articles in the internet but it just come to my mind and never been processed into why, how, and what to do. But now? The movie made me speechless. It is horrible. The earth is getting hotter, disaster like hurricanes, droughts, and floads are getting more frequent.

In the last two years or more I begin to realize that the problems caused by global warming increase. It is not only about disasters but also about the change of season which completely affects the life of farmers and fishermen in general. I read Kompas this morning. The deadline is about the fishermen who could not go to trawl fish to the sea because of the unpredictable wind direction. They said that wind direction was not same like some years ago. It has changed. They cannot do anything but bind themselves in bad debt given by usurer and do not know when and how to pay without sailing to the sea.

So, what should we do? Just start from ourselves to do something small but won't let our earth hotter.

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