The Environment And People With Disabilities
I Want To Be That Leader
I have recently been thinking about the environment more than I usually do. Why? Because a few weeks ago I learned that we surpassed that 2 degree marker of no return. If we really want to save the planet, and if you ask me, the billionaires who have their own personal space stations is a little ironic and ridiculous if you ask me, and their money is where their mouths are. All that energy and output of money is almost pointless. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for exploring space and hope to find ET even though Stephen Hawking once said, “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” The billionaires who are exploring space should be putting their green doe into saving the planet instead. What they should be doing instead is building greenhouse gas factories and hybrid car factories and should be putting solar panels on their rooftops. If we were really serious about that, we would have to rewind the clocks of time at least 50 or 60 years if not 100 years. The United States government should have to put a mandatory order in immediate effect to all car companies to produce at least hybrid cars if not all electric cars as well as ordering all carbon factories to cease all operations.
What a lot of people don’t understand is that, that big beautiful blue sky that we see when we actually do look up and are not looking down at our mobile technologies, is the ozone layer and it absorbs most of our sun's ultraviolet rays, and their is a very big whole in it. Also, just a quick side note, the sky isn’t blue because of the ozone, it’s blue because of the shorter wavelengths of light projected from the sun hitting the earth. Another big important fact about the planet that most people don’t know is that about every 23,000 years or so, the earth goes into an ice age and recycles itself. However, there is something new that has been scratching at the earth this time...human beings; we are warming up the planet faster than the earth normally does by itself.
What I would really, really like to be recognized as is, if not the first Ambassador or the first United States Secretary to the Environment and People with Disabilities and Learning Differences, or to at least be the first Representative to the latter position recognized by the United States government. My wife and I went to Vietnam a couple of years ago and it was a great trip and we loved Saigon. However it was quite dirty. I remember talking to our tour guide about the trash problem and asking him if there were any trash plants or trash trucks in the city. If I recollect what he said, it was something like, ‘not really, but if I had enough money, I would start my own trash company.’ So I told him, if you want a billion dollar idea, then you should start the first real trash/recycle company and/or put at least trash cans on the streets. Thanks to my parents, I’ve been to a few third world countries in life and that’s where we need to start. And unfortunately it’s not just the third world countries; it’s here in America as well. There are places in this country that I have been to where I wouldn’t even want to visit and give all my sympathy for those people who have no other option but to live there.
With everything I just said, think about people with disabilities and learning differences. Some of them live in those places and do not have access to simple tools to help them get around or the basic technology to help them succeed in life or even be notified when a storm or disaster is coming on a tablet or phone. Another thing I have noticed is that especially during or after a natural disasters they are almost never talked about. There is one phrase that sticks in my head, “the rich get rich and the poor get poor.” One of the lessons that my father taught me that I will never forget is, we are born into this world and before we die we have to leave this place a little bit better than before we found it; and he was and is right. I feel like a lot of people talk about helping but nobody really does anything about it. We need to start owning our problems and get over thinking that we are the greatest things on this earth, because we are not, the earth is greater than we'll ever be. Once we actually start to fix those problems, deal with them and face them head on, we will start owning it.