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Are you busy rushing your PW proposals such as EoM and WR? Is “conservation” your chosen topic? Well then, you should take a short break and look at these awesome pictures. Instead of concentrating on conserving things that even you yourself may think are rather pointless (it is only for the sake of A’level results),  we should focus on a more crucial topic – the conservation of environment, nature and wildlife.

These are the National Geographic BEST pictures for the year.

Some thoughts after seeing these photos:

Yes, we all know the hard facts about how globalisation and industrialisation is adversely affecting our precious earth, but come to think of it, have you ever really played a part in protecting our world? Have you even heard about Project Gaia? Well, after seeing the magnificent photos above, I do hope that you will start to pay attention to more of such topics, and not just the conservation topics in PW.

Just imagine after 30 to 50 years, when it reaches the time which the scientists predict as “the end of the world” and there will be rapid increase of occurrence of natural disasters, such beautiful scenes of nature, flora and fauna will not be present anymore. I doubt we can even live to see “the end of the world”, as we may have perished in some major environmental disaster. Of course, our future generations will not be able to witness these too. I cannot bear to picture children of the future generations asking how do penguins or polar bears look like, because they no longer exist. (Penguins and polar bears are my favourite animals by the way.)

You may be reading articles or watching news broadcasts everyday, but have you ever wondered why, for the past few years, the weather disasters are getting worse? Well, it’s mainly our fault. The change in global temperature is one main factor why the weather all over the world is so unpredictable and disastrous. Numerous books and movies have been warning us about the future when nature takes its revenge on us. We are conscious about these things, however, due to nonchalant attitude, we seem to belittle all these information because the disasters are not occurring near us, or at least definitely not in Singapore. The effects of our pollution are shown all over the world, and to minimize these effects (though we cannot really see its effects in the short run), we should all play our parts in saving the earth. We all know about reduce, reuse and recycle, so why aren’t you doing so? Make it the latest trend if it is possible!

Start now, and please do not think that your effort is insignificant as every effort counts.

(P.S. The photos are not photo-shopped. )