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After I read the article, I realized that global climate change is still happening all the time. It’s a prolonged problem that our world has been facing for a long time. Many ways have been offered to solve this problem like reducing our private car use and using clean energy. Clean energy is natural energy that can be renewable such as solar, wind and water energy. Everyone is trying to save our world from the global warming problem in different ways, but some ignore this problem too. I think If they realize the effects of the climate change problem, they will do something to fix this problem. Doing little things is better than doing nothing.
Unfortunately, the climate change problem is affecting our 45,500 years-old historical painting on the Island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. It shows that the climate change problem is coming closer and closer to human life. This ancient painting is important because it is the world’s oldest art depicting a figure. It shows the history of humanity. It helps us know what happened in the past. Humans like to research our origin and want to know where we came from and the daily life of humans in the past. We want to know the past to study things that happened and learn what we should do in the present. Sometimes the past is the best lesson that makes us better. This painting is invaluable and irreplaceable. It was drawn by humans since the settlement of humans in this region. That’s why we must protect this painting. We must maintain the painting for the next human generation. Our offspring should know and see history. In the future, the painting will be more invaluable than the present.
Now, a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers are still finding the best way to preserve the painting urgently because the temperature is higher every single day and that can cause more damage to the painting. It is a challenging problem that is hard yet crucial to save the historical painting immediately. Hopefully, they can conserve the painting as soon as possible.
Lastly, everyone can help them to save the painting by doing something that can reduce the climate change problem. Although, the little things that we can do are tiny in the big world. If everyone does it, they will become the big thing that can affect the big world.
I had seen this article before Nam chose to blog it. I'm glad she did, but my own perspective was a little different. I was less interested in the threat to the painting, although I agree that that is real and should be addressed, than that it adds further evidence to rapid recent rise to our species to domination of the planet Earth. Actually, Nam's summary doesn't say, nor does her source, which I had already read, that the painting of the pig in Indonesia is by our species of human — being so old, 45,500 years, it's more likely the art work of another species of human now extinct since our species, Homo sapiens, spread into the area and the rest of the planet.
ReplyDeleteLike Nam, I find it fascinating for what it tells us about our ancestors or our brothers and sisters from the past. And it seems that they were much like us: interested in food and where it came it from; engaged in art and story telling to bind their members into a society; and so on. I wonder whether they were more or less happy and successful in their lives than humans have been for most of the last 12,000 years that saw the rise of the powerful kingdom-sponsored religions that Pingpong refers to his post below?
I ageed with Nam for this article because I think that nowadays, the climate change affects to all of people. Not only the painting in this article but also many natural disaster in the world. Therefore, people should recognize about this problem and try to help together to solve it. History is very important to the world because it can tell about something or situation in the past that can learn or bring the advantage to adapt in human life. For all of this, I think that history is useful to everyone and people should help for reducing the climate change problem.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nam for sharing your ideas on the climate change. While I was reading your responses, I was wondering about how our lives in the future will be. The climate change has transformed the environment and that also affect the ways of our living which including animals. I have seen in news that some polar bears started eating themselves as it is difficult for them to hunt for foods. The climate change causes the raising sea level and many scientists predicted that coastal cities will have been underwater by 2050. Bangkok, my hometown city, will have been in the same situation by 2030. With this natural disaster, we will loss lot of lands for agriculture and farming, leading to lack of food to feed the world's population in the future.
ReplyDeleteEmma's comment about polar bears eating themselves (June 1, 13:36) caught my attention. I had not heard of that before, although I've read articles about them losing their traditional hunting environments because of rising temperatures. I also want to clarify: do they eat themselves or eat each other? Both would be dramatic, but eating yourself sounds far more extreme. I can't quickly think of any animal that normally does that.
DeleteEmma's comments about Bangkok also bring the issue home. 2030 is not that far away. Meanwhile, the temperature continues to rise as more and more humans demand more and more energy.
I also like the way Emma started her comment at 13:36 on June 1 by summarizing the idea she wanted to respond to and attributing that idea to Nam.
DeleteHi Peter, thank you for your replies on my comment. About the news about the polar bears, some of them started eat each other, according to the news.
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