Two months ago, I posted about Severino Reyes who was featured in Google Doodle to commemorate him as the “Father of Tagalog Plays”.

I guess you already know about today’s Doodle.

Today, 22nd of April 2022, is Earth Day just in case you are not aware and have not yet dared to click the images of earth showing in Google’s homepage.

I am not really an environmentalist person. In fact I am guilty of things I have done to harm the environment even if it is just a simple fart. That can be considered as air pollution. Imagine if all people on earth would fart simultaneously, it could result in a global suffocation.

Anyway before this post could start stinking let me drop it down and tackle things about our home planet.

You may raise your eyebrow and ask why should I care? You will think that large factories are contributing a lot in harming the earth so littering a piece of candy wrapper is nothing compared to dark smoke coming out from factories or hazardous chemicals dumping into rivers.

I don’t need to sound like I care a lot about our planet. As I have said a while ago I have done things in the past that add harm to the earth, cigarette smoking to be more specific.

If you click on today's Google Doodle, it will redirect you to a page of Google Earth Timelapse with the title Warming Planet. There you will see pictures of earth from 1984 up to present that shows different places where climate change has occurred. Events like melting ice, shrinking lakes, increasing wildfires, extreme weather and rising in temperature are the things that happened in the last three decades that are clearly visible as shown in the timelapse.

As I was watching the presentation and reading the brief description, I couldn’t imagine the devastation the climate change has brought to our planet.

I thought climate change was just a joke and that I needed proof to believe how it will affect humanity.

If you are a Filipino reading this perhaps you are aware of the typhoon Agaton (internationally known as Megi) that just passed the archipelago twelve days ago.

Did you ever wonder how on earth there would be a Tropical Storm (TS) in the middle of the summer? In my younger years I don’t recall typhoons occurring during summer. Maybe there was and I just haven’t done any research about it.

In the melting of ice in the Arctic, the warming of temperature is responsible for sea ice and Greenland’s ice sheets to melt. If this ice melting is consistent global sea level would rise. It can also contribute to expanding water sources. On the other hand there is also shrinking of lakes like that case in Lake Urmia in Iran. It is the second saltwater in the Middle East. However due to illegal activities like wells, dams and irrigation, the lake continues to shrink.

It is good to know that Google can give information like this across the planet.

We may have nothing to do about climate change but I think we can help save our planet by becoming responsible human beings.

Somehow Google has shown us how the global climate is changing. At least we are aware of what was going on with our home planet in the last three decades.

I hope in the future Google will show us images about revitalizing the earth. In the next thirty years maybe, I think there will be a development if people around the world will unite to fix mother earth.

Happy Earth Day Everyone!

Thanks for reading. Ciao!

Lead image source credits to Greg Rosenke