Climate change is knocking on our door and all we do is argue whether or not we hear the sound. Changes that happened since humans became “main characters” are so tremendous that every argument about our impact on wildlife and the planet should lead us to have just one, clear conclusion-we must change ourselves if we want to have more millenias of our history written.

Even though things are not perfect, there is still a lot of hope that we can make our environment better. But if we want to do that, we must start taking actions soon.

Scientific facts show that people are changing their environment like never before: average global temperature rose 1.4 F since 1880, nine out of 10 warmest years since we began measuring the temperatures have happened since 2000, the global sea level has risen 7” (178mm) over the past 100 years,  global forest loss from 2000 would cover an area two times bigger than Texas.

The world our grandkids will live in can either be a self-sufficient one or a complete disaster. OUR and our children’s children are the ones that will decide what is going to be true. The story about climate change is a story about all of us. If we all fail in solving this problem, everything we achieved so far will be worthless. Just imagine the world with no fresh air, no fresh water, no wildlife, no resources to sustain ourselves.
And what is the first thing that we can do?

We should recognize, instead of neglecting, that we have a real problem that won’t just go away if we don’t solve it.

If 97 percent of the world’s top scientists’ opinions are not enough to convince someone that climate change is real and caused by humans, there are also grandparents who can explain how nature changed just during their lifetime.

Climate change is not a new problem. We have been facing it for a long time, but there can be no improvements if we make false statements that climate change does not exist. Arguing about whether or not climate change is there has little purpose while our wild species are becoming extinct and changes in climate all over the world are hard not to notice.

Only after we recognize climate change as a civilization-threatening problem can we start solving it and hopefully start making a community that can be both eco-friendly and prosperous.