While I can't take the time to read EVERYONE'S opinion on this matter, I do have my own to submit. Global warming or not... something is happening to the environment that may or may not be a good thing in the end. However, I do know that a hurricane (btw which the warmer the waters the stronger the hurricanes- the more the FRESH WATER ice caps melt into SALT WATER oceans the WARMER the oceans will get) destroys countless lives along with the other horrific acts of mother nature is surely something to look at. In my eyes mother nature is a beautiful thing that turn its back on us at any moment. But instead of focusing on mother nature which is something we cant do anything about, maybe we should start doing something about things we can help with... lets say helping out at the local homeless shelter, giving some food to a food pantry... joining big brothers big sisters program... anything like that... because in order to survive whatever mother nature is preparing us for ( and who's to say that "Day after Tomorrow" is all that fictional) we are going to have to work together, as a team enemies will be forced to become allies and the hollywood stars will become as commonfolk as we are.... but thats just my opinion. Life is life and life happens. Yeah its tragic when a tornado kills and leaves hundreds homeless as it is when some guy is allowed the time and essentially the freedom to kill 30people in a two hour span. We have to keep our hands up, help our neighbors, and go on smiling. We all did it after 9/11 - a day that woke me up and brought me out of my 17 year old ignorant narrow view of the world.

Without suffering there would be no compassion. This veiw has been with me a long time and has brought me not only my frist family death at the age of thirteen when i watched a loved one take her last breath but so many other happenings both directly and indirectly affecting me.

Ok sorry i went off on a rant... sometimes that happens. I know i went way off basis, but my point is try not to worry about what you cant control and mother nature is just something you cant control. Cuz if you worry to much, you can miss alot of living and a lot of the "moments" that make life so grand. SO concentrate on them.. and smile at a stranger when you pass him on the streets. It could make his day