Tomorrow will be Green
Barely a week ago, it was the Myanmar floods and then the massive earthquakes in China. Hurricane Katrina, boxing day Indian Ocean tsunami and the Aceh tsunami are still fresh in our minds. One generation before us, calamities as massive as these would have spread throughout a lifetime, but now in much less than a decade.
Life expectancy was raised significantly through medical discoveries. Nonetheless I do think when time comes for the end of my generation, before we can test out the latest Parkinsons or cancer miracle cures, the sudden blow of death could be earthquake, hurricane, tsunami, landslide or maybe even suicide bomber.
At times like these, I wonder why I'm in the office at late hours when life truly calls for carpe-diem more than before. It also begs thoughts about doing more than just our bit with recycling, switching off lights and using less plastic bags to urging your company/university to go green and voting only politicians who are green (two extra notes: 1) *yay* for the US senate vote to stop filling oil reserves and 2) having said that, I still won't choose Al Gore).
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