Are you concerned about the branch of biology, in relations of organisms to one another and their physical surroundings? Possibly you have no idea what that statement means. It's real simple: Eco-anxiety. It's more than the problems of longer summers or smoggy streets. It's our climate changing, gearing up for our own extinction.
    
Temperatures are on rise, especially to the north. In ten years, the North Pole may be underwater. I know, you are probably thinking, "But that's the Artic. Who cares?" I'm going to tell you something, I care.
    
The warning signs in the Artic and Antarctica have been available to us for many years. Explorers and scientists have been trying to tell anyone who will listen. But unless people start getting up close and personal, right now, time may run out.
    
I suppose you can take a dogsled to the North Pole and check things out for yourself. Maybe a politician or two could take a month traveling around Antarctica. Heck, even bring their families along. The kids would love not seeing any fruits or vegetables anywhere in sight.
    
Here are just a few things that can be discovered: Antarctica's sheet ice is important to the world's climate and sea level. There are remarkable food chains in the Southern Ocean. Antarctica is the most remote and untouched place on earth. (Coldest Desert in the World) And who can argue with the beauty of the Southern Lights, sparkling like Heaven.
    
Unfortunately, you will also discover some other things on your up close and personal journey. You will see melting glaciers. (Be careful not to fall through!) Ice caps won't be there for your photo pleasure. If you are going to take this trip, may I suggest you do it soon, because in ten to fifteen years, the North Pole will not be attainable.
    
Possibly, you can take an adventure somewhere a little closer to home. How about stepping outside? The weather is much more extreme these days, don't you think? How about the drastic change in seasons and rainfall? You can thank the greenhouse effect for tha; or Global Warming, depending on your mood.
    
There are tropical diseases, because mosquitoes and flies are not dying during cold weather. Why? Tropical regions are not having extended cold weather seasons.
    
The likelihood, magnitude, and timing of the most serious effects of Global Warming are debatable. 
   
You want to get up close and personal with Global Warming? How about knowing that are economic growth is being halted. Is that possible? Just ask New Orleans, Florida, and Texas about category-5 hurricanes knocking on their front door, destroying before they can even rebuild. Then flood from those hurricanes, travel across our country as tropical storms, still producing destructive wind shear. More rainfall, more erosion. More evaporation because of the heat, more storms.
    
But let's get real up close and personal. Katrina has cost the United States $81 billion. Andrew, $55 billion. And as I write this, Hurricane Ike is in the Gulf of Mexico, anxious to destroy our economy some more.
    
Can we rebuild? Sure we can. Can we save lives? Absolutely. Can we stop Global Warming?
    
Well, that's a personal question you may want to ask yourself.