Turn up your air-conditioners, leave your lights on… all the time, throw away your new bicycle and drive to work. The world needs to urgently sit up and take note of the sloth-like speed at which the globe is warming. This is serious. We need to act now to urgently warm this planet up because it’s freezing in Mongolia.
If you are a true internationalist interested in contributing to third world development, I beg you to act immediately.
In large parts of Mongolia the people live in sub-zero temperatures for more than half the year. Berated by snow day and night, scarred by a freezing, burning wind, and eating nothing but boiled lamb, the people are sick and tired of the cold. For their lives to improve the world needs to get seriously warmer, seriously fast.
Mongolia is a land-locked nation, one of the furthest from the ocean. The people do not enjoy a beach-side culture like us in Australia, and in fact, most have never even seen a beach. However, you can help make a difference through small changes. By increasing your carbon footprint and heating up our world we can melt those polar ice-caps (experts say it will only take a 2-3° increase), raise those sea-levels and bring the ocean to the Mongolians. With our hard work, the people of Mongolia may one day exercise the basic human rights to sun-bake, snorkel and surf that many of us in Australia take for granted.
The rising sea-levels and the development of a beach culture in Mongolia would also bring extra tourism to the area. The influx of tourists would result in a more money coming in to the country, subsequently alleviating the nationwide poverty. Tourism would also speed up the economic, political and social progress as seen in other popular tourist destinations such as Bali, Phuket, Cancun and Goa.
So next time you leave a room and go to turn off that light, afraid that increasing temperatures will make your life harder, or that melting ice-caps and rising seas will obliterate your city, cast your thoughts to the poor Mongolians huddled in the greyness, snow and sleet pounding them day after day after day, nothing but vodka to drink, and having never even body-surfed. Think of them with their freezing nothingness and leave that light on, and then go and turn all your lights in the house on, and then go for a drive just for the hell of it.
The Mongolians, fed up with battling against the cruel elements, need to get warmer before we get colder. And you can make a difference.
Do your part, increase your footprint today.
