The next Darfur is never too far
The tormenting heat
lately is shrinking us. The headache was so profuse as if the skull is about to
explode. A single move is enough to bring sweat. Living through seconds and
minutes has been a struggle, pathetically speaking. And who is to be berated
for all these?
The alarming signal of
global warming has once again approached us and analysts warned that this could
be the last warning before a catastrophe landed on us, leaving us behind a
ground of death where not even a single force or help is capable of dealing
with it. Before this, we were overwhelmed with unpredictable pattern of
rainfall. The sunlight in the early morning was so severe that it penetrated
deep into every single cell in our body and almost burned it into ashes. The
sudden torrential rainfall in the evening happened just like that without a
single thunder or at least some dark clouds to be seen at the end of our
eyesight left us feeling helpless and vulnerable as to thing can change that
rapid when we were unprepared and unaided with least solutions.
Despite the apparent
indications and constant warning from all direction, explicitly telling us the
enormous change in ecology and climate, it seems to have not elicited
sufficient of awareness and attention from us. The drought will continue. The
groaning voices within farmers will grow louder as the farmlands become
desolated. Our thirst for water intensifies. The fight over food production
continues. The population struggling for survival will only increase and never
reduced. But the size of land will always remain the same. It shrinks but not
enlarged, which means when it reaches the max and can no longer support an
extra dimension, human are forced to leave. Diminution is simply the ultimate solution
for insufficient resource to meet the immense needs.
Malaysians are
fortunate to sustain life without interruption of water and food supply. It is
also essentially the factor of our ignorant attitude towards the changing
environment and ecology. Open burnings are still seen on streets. Irresponsible
offenders are easily escaped from legal punishment over what massive
destruction had they done to the environment shared by us. Technology continues
to advance and more weapons and missiles are invented regardless of its
consequence to human and surrounding. Selfishness and obliviousness towards
finding solutions eventually kill us. The next Darfur is never too far if we still allow our own benefits and self-interest to
conquer our mind.
As a saying goes, a
change starts from a minor action. A minor action from everyone integrates and
becomes a louder voice capable of at least initiating another larger action,
more influentially. Can’t take a single action? At least get serious and
concerned on the change as you’re a part of the affected one as well.
Look up to the sky and
hope for rainfall. But it’s too late when the rains finally falls but too much
of sacrifices have been made.
