-Melissa Etheridge, I Need To Wake Up

From the movie: An Inconvenient Truth-

This would be the song that has been waking me up every morning. More specifically, this song wakes my roommate, who in turn, wakes me. It's always good to be able to wake up to something you can laugh at, though, believe me, when you've only had 4 hours of sleep, the last thing you want to do is to laugh.

But I remember watching An Inconvenient Truth the day before the GP examination, and leaving the cinema with the notion of becoming a full-time environmental activist. I was thinking, Screw the A Levels, I should go save the world. It really is a powerful movie, and if you haven't watched it, you should fling yourself off the top of Suntec City's Tower A. Or you could troop across the causeway and buy the DVD for 10 Ringgit. As I sat through the movie, I started to feel increasingly annoyed with humanity at large. It just seems to me that everyone is busy pursuing the almighty dollar, and no one seems to care about the one place that holds this entire system together. A few weeks ago, I read an article in the TIME magazine about the shrinking Arctic ice. I read the article, expecting widespread concern for the livelihood of the Eskimos, penguins, seals, other polar creatures and the balance of the environment in general. Instead, I got countries who were already vying for sovereignty over bits of the Arctic waters, so that when the ice melts away, they will hopefully get a share of the new sea route from London to Asia, as well as a portion of the fossil fuels lying beneath all the ice. Maybe I'm overreacting here, but in my humble opinion, all these presidents and prime ministers are behaving like complete and utter plonkers. What good will a revolutionarily short sea route from Europe to Asia do you if your city, like Spongebob, is living under the sea? Not much, I would have to say.

Me? I'm a good citizen of the earth; I try as much as I can to not ask for carriers. And you should too.