活在‧我‧空間空間2012 1 - Po Leung Kuk Laws Foundation College

How I LIVE with my Dimension
Act Now or Never
5J Chong Szi Yong
Titanic, the gigantic luxurious cruise ship
which was said to be unsinkable, became one
of the most recognized catastrophic man-made
disasters ever happened in human history.
When she collided with the iceberg, no one
believed that the enormous ship would sink.
However, when time passed, the ship bow
started to rise, the passengers started to panic
and fought their way onto the lifeboats, even
though they knew that there weren’t enough
lifeboats. Due to this reason, only 700 out of
2200 passengers survived. The survivors were
mainly the rich first class passengers as they
were stationed closer to the deck, while the
poorer second- and third-class passengers had
to suffer the disaster, taking 1500 innocent
lives.
It has only been less than a century after the
unfortunate tragedy, due to flowing icebergs,
which are the result of a rise in temperature,
humans are now facing another situation.
Nowadays, humans over-use aerosol sprays.
This allows strong ultraviolent light to penetrate
through a hole, with the size of Australia, in our
Ozone layer at the North Pole, causing more
ice to melt. This destroys the natural habitats of
the creatures living there like Polar Bears, and
causes surging sea levels in the planet.
In addition, humans over-consume energy,
causing excessive emissions of greenhouse
gases, e.g. carbon dioxide. Thus, trapping
heat in the atmosphere which leads to a global
temperature boost, well-known as “Global
Warming”, bringing inbalance to the global
climate.
Another point is that humans over-produce
waste. Excess waste is dumped into the sea,
polluting the waters and poisoning marine lives.
Some are burnt in incinerators, releasing toxic
gases into the air, which cause irritation to our
respiratory system, and hence endanger our
health.
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Dimension 2012