Many have travelled overseas for business, leisure, or even attending certain entertainment events, and it has been a widely shared hobby before the pandemic hits globally.

It goes the same for me until my recent visit to a country I consider familiar with, Taiwan. This trip has triggered much thinking, and I am thrilled with the discovery.

I have been a big fan of world history as I love to know how the past shape the present and how historical and cultural events have affected our life today.

It is fascinating to understand that our current #civilisation was once a brilliant idea and concept from our ancestors. Understanding how the past connects to the present will help us further bridge the future. And one particular matter that I could not stop thinking about is the ?????’? ???????.

According to #NASA, in the last 800,000 years, eight cycles of #iceages and global warmer periods have been happening to the Earth. The last ice age was approximately 11,700 years ago, marking the beginning of modern human civilisation and the modern climate era.

Most of us born in generation X and onwards are enjoying the privilege of #peace and #harmony. With the most comfort level, we have the advantage of “demand” and, the “supply” never being a huge affair. The possession in humanity grows as adoration for materialistic luxury may have cost us our #environmental destruction.

From the past climate changes over 800,000 years, most of them are attributed to minimal variations in Earth’s orbit that will change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.

However, the current warming trend is different because it is believed that the result of human activities since the mid-1800s, which is the midst of the modern revolution, proceeds at a rate that has not been seen over many recent millennia. It is undeniable that current human activities have produced atmospheric gases, which trap more of the Sun’s energy in the Earth’s system.

This extra energy has toasted the atmosphere, the ocean, and the land, producing rapid changes and widespread in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere have occurred.