Still on the carbon trading being pushed by the UN as a Clean Defense Mechanism in order to combat climate change. It just dawned on me that if planting of trees will be the project used, what is the guarantee? In the first place, trees take a lot of time to grow. If a carbon credit will be awarded to a country for some trees planted, is it not true that the benefits are already being enjoyed while the offsetting tool is still not available? There must be something wrong here. What if the trees planted did not all grow? What if a calamity comes and destroyed everything? Paying it will not solve the problem. It is the absorption of the carbon at a certain time that is important. Also, there will come a time when the plating of trees could not anymore cope with the carbon emissions, so that no matter how much money a needy country can offer a host country, there are just none available.
This even make this carbon trading very questionable. There maybe other ways to carbon trade, but the bottom line is that at most, it can only neutralize but not reduce. As long as there are people who are not willing to enter a change of lifestyle, one that is environment friendly, carbon emission will continue to rise and the warming of the earth is certain to increase. The painful truth is that even if we are not sure that carbon emission is the cause, the quest to its reduction is still not serious. It is still taken for granted, much worse, taken advantage. Very sad indeed for the next generation.
It seems that our last resort is prayer. Let us appeal to our God that we will be delivered from this catastrophe. Let us plead to Him that in spite of our ways, we have hope. There are still good people whom He should regard. He knows us very well. We are His creatures. We came from Him and therefore, we know Him well and His ways.
God bless us!
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