The presidential election and North Korea provocations preoccupy our minds. Our future is uncertain and it is natural to worry. But how many of us, I wonder, worry about what really matters? As of writing this, Earth Day is right around the corner. Earth Day is set to be a bad-air day, ironically.

Fine dust, along with several other environmental issues, seems to have been overlooked by the Korean public. This is a cause for alarm. Our domestic and international political situation is certainly important, but they are not excuses to push our thoughts about the environment into the deep recesses of our minds. Global climate change is real and it is happening fast.

The last year has been the hottest year in recorded history - this year is set to break the record. Some say we are beyond the point of return, but shouldn’t we at least try to take care of our Earth? If we let our environment go to waste, we will not have the Earth on which we can worry about our next president or decide how to deal with N.K. We need to act for the environment and we must act right now.

Park Chang-hwan
Dept. of German ‘17

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