Greenzone Online

This article about the Sahara being green several thousand years ago gave me a fresh perspective on climate change. It turns out that climate change is, after all, a natural and cyclical process our planet undergoes every few thousand years or so. Deserts becomes forests and vice-versa. Rivers dry out and new ones appear in another hemisphere. Now where do we stand on all this? For us these shifts may mean wars, starvation, billions of lost lives, destroyed economies…

If miniature changes in the planet’s orbit cause such changes on its surface — how small and vulnerable do we have to be to call the latter “big?” It is exciting and frustrating at the same time: we are powerless in face of the grand proceedings, but at least we now have the tools to record and analyze some of them. The fun part about being small is that everything around you is so big!