Political Cartoons: why?

So politicians say they will do something, but they cant. Seems simple enough. This entertaining cartoon is referring to the up coming election. There are 4 representatives that are referred to, Jack Layton, New Democratic Party, Stephane Dion, Liberal Party, and Stephen Harper, Conservative Party, and an average citizen representing more than just himself. Candidates are trying their best to gain votes by telling everyone what they can do better, and what they can fix. Now in this cartoon, the artist has highlighted the truth, and what will really happen. So I do believe that this cartoon is correct in a way. If we look at this situation from a different point of view, we may get a new opinion. Example; if we were one of the candidates, and we came up with the issue of high gas prices, then further on in discussion you end up finding out another problem. After that, more issues appear and you lose track of where you started. Nothing gets done in that case, and this candidate is a very busy person. All in all, these candidates are great people, but when they are linked to politics, who knows. So these many cartoons you seem to find entertaining, may have truth behind them, and could help sway votes for the up coming election.

Climate change

Climate Change

(Global warming)

Usually when reading opinion pieces on global warming, everyone is saying it's bad, and "take action now, its happening." What if those people are wrong? What if there is nothing we can do, if this is a natural thing for earth that happens every 1,500 years? Maybe the atmosphere is supposed to be getting thicker, trapping UV rays inside the earth and heating it up as the years pass by. Maybe even cooling it too.

Nobody can confidently say they know. To decide what we should do, we all need facts. Al Gores, An Inconvenient Truth, is mostly telling the public that it is happening, and we need to do something right away. By measuring the levels of CO2 in ice, scientists were able to tell how high it was, and in what year. That in the last six hundred and fifty thousand years there has been ice ages and high CO2 levels, and these past few years, and in the next 50 years, it will be ‘off the charts.’ How do we know what the future holds? Nobody could really see into the future. Anything could happen. Stanley Jevons, one of Europes highly esteemed scientists wrote a book on Englands coal use. The Industrial Revolution saw an increase in the demand for coal. Which will soon enough cause exhaustion in coal reserves and the coal industry will soon come to a halt. Much the same with oil, and other fossil fuels. A main gas that doomsayers are accusing humans of using most is CO2. What if that isnt the cause of the earths warming. Honestly though, what if it's really all natural. Maybe people are just over exaggerating what’s happening. Sure we will have more social, environmental, economical, human health issues as stated in 'How it all ends' . Could it be that we have adapted the wrong way of living? Or maybe just a slight change in our average days could have a big impact on our environment.

People will have to look at climate change from all possible angles. If it's not happening, and we don’t take action, well everyone is pretty much happy because they didn’t have to do anything, and the worlds not going to end. If it’s not happening and we do take action, well we were prepared, but we may have a bit of an economical downfall. If it is happening and we do take action, sure we spent some money, but everyone is happy because taking action saved their butts. If it is happening, and we don’t take action, all the issues stated above, will be happening, we will lose our economy, our social status, our health care, our environment, everything.

Anything could happen, and it may or may not follow this pattern. Maybe the whole outcome will be good, and we won’t do anything, or it will be bad when we do take action. Right now the facts are pretty much pointing towards taking action. But it's up to you to decide which way your future may approximately end up. For what we are doing to try and help, things are getting better, but not necessarily good.