It's the End of the World

At school I spontaneously decided to join eleven different clubs, one of them being something called GRAVITI Magazine. In summary, it's basically a student-led club in which the writers get their own space to write about an important and/or meaningful topic. Which appeals to the name, “GRAVITI,” that stands for the gravity of the topics being disguised within the magazine. I applied for and obtained an officer position as a designer and am a writer, so I chose to write my article about global warming.

Climate Change GRAVITI Magazine Article

Global warming and climate change is a term familiar with many people, and is mocked by individuals that either refuse to change or companies that make a profit off of both running and running the planet. Such as oil and coal mining companies who spend millions of dollars every year just to cover up speculation and evidence that brings light to the damage they are causing. But without companies such as those, our modern day civilization would cease to exist. Oil is fundamental in serving the purpose of fueling cars, producing electricity, and even manufacturing clothing.

According to a sketchy site on Google, National Today, the world is going to end on May 21 of this year, 2023. That is not very pleasant, considering that it's only half way through the year. Over the course of many years the end of the world was predicted about a hundred million times. The most popular being in 2012, according to the ancient Maya prophecy. Scientists have claimed many times that now is the time to change; otherwise we risk irreversible damage. I remember this because I’ve read a good amount of articles with similar titles, all claiming the same thing, the year being the only thing that changes.

Which leads me to two conclusions. One, why are people still having children? Personally, I would not want my child to be living in a world which is about to die. With my fair share of knowledge from the end of the world movies, imagine having your child wear an oxygen mask, matter, in fact, imagine living in a world where you would have to purchase air tanks just to breathe. Dr. Seuss was right. Or having to explain to your kid what an extinct animal looked and sounded like, that's pretty sad. Secondly, people wont start caring unless the damage that's being done to our environment limits or affects them in some way. It's the same with me. I read and watch all these documentaries about how every animal is going extinct and how the world is getting so hot that some places are inhabitable. But after a while I forget. Because I go on with my life, and start to focus more on the problems that are personally affecting me at this point in time. And I feel that our refusal to acknowledge what is not bothering us now is what limits us, as a society, from changing and prospering.