------------------------------------------------------- CONVENTION OF THE GOAN DIASPORA FROM GOA INTO THE WORLD Lisbon, Portugal June 15-17, 2007 Details at: http://www.goacom.org/casa-de-goa/noticias.html -------------------------------------------------------
There are good reasons to believe all those scientific facts mentioned by Dr. Helekar, although I am of the belief that threat to our eco-balance has reached such alarming proportions that we do not need reasons anymore. We must believe this simply because what we stand to gain by believing in order to act to heal our planet is far more positive and wise than not believing! What do we lose anyways by believing? On the other hand, by not believing we will lose even the chance to lose! For it is not the living who alone can hope to win or lose? Who knows if we will have the luxury of a hope to lose if we are DEAD? By the time we get our proof, we may not need it. Al Gore's documentary an inconvenient truth - a global warning, is an eye opener. It is indeed by far the"most terrifying film you will ever see". The theories which posit antitheses of this red alert are devises of political ambitiousness, their selfishly practical motive being, it will not happen in our lifetime anyways, so why not make hay (and pots of money) while the sun shines? But Al Gore, with ample proof at his disposal shows that things are happening in OUR very lifetime. C'mon guys, can't you feel the quality of heat on your skin now-a-days? The coral reefs are going, the glaciers are going, the sea levels are predicted to rise threateningly when all those continents of ice will have melted, most forests are gone, and the rest are fast going, the wild life is going, polar bears are drowning (!) for want of a piece of ice to step on!...LIFE is going is off Mother Earth! Do we need reasons to save her? The very definition of the word 'consciousness' is:- Whatever that struggles and protests against a threat to life, that is consciousness. People who do not struggle or protest against the threat to life on Earth are unconscious -nay, they are INCONSCIENT! Global warming is a threat. And better believe that it is not a bluff charge. It is "Quayamat"! The English word is APOCALYPSE!! One last thing to end: As rightly titled by Dr. Helekar, the responsibility is GLOBAL. There will be enough time to point fingers if we save the planet NOW. As Al Gore says in his docu. that it is just a matter of mobilising the recalcitrant political will. Because we still have the resources.
