This was originally my comment on a post by this, apparently, cinnamon-loving blogger.

[i believe that] pollution, and the resulting contribution to global warming, is a neglected serious problem in the Arab world.

We are often tempted to downplay the effects of pollution and global warming on our lives and the lives of the generations to come by saying “There are more important problems to fix”.

True .. there are alot of problems that should be fixed in the Middle East, but the minimality of the personal effort required to fix these problems is quite often neglected.

After all, we can all help by at least:

• Not littering the streets and open wilderness.
• We can ask our grocery store to not give us plastic bags when we don’t need them.
• Minimize our consumption of private cars (at least once a week).

As Ola mentioned, this problem does have some serious effects, and we can all help.