How to solve global warming

I'll ya, the weather is all over the place. One day it's hot, the next day it's cold. What to wear? What to do? Craziness.

According to scientists global warming is a real problem.

I have a solution. Ready? Here it is: Let's just shave the bears!

Let's define bear shaving as the efforts we go to deal with the symptoms of a problem rather than addressing the cause of the problem.

Here's a quick and funny video (work appropriate) of a bear shaving itself so it can deal with global warming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUcq1ztQN8

Here are a few examples of bear shaving:

We have a leaky roof, so we shave the bear by buying buckets.

We have all sorts of goals and dreams and hopes and wishes and resolutions that we never stick to. So what do we do? We shave the bear by searching for more and more tactics and delay the inevitable: taking action. When in reality we should be searching for accountability because taking action consistently isn't easy.

Everyone loves going to the department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and waiting around all day, right? Instead of putting a sophisticated queue management system into the DMV so that people waiting in line feel like it's less of a mob - they should rework what actually happens in the building so the line itself disappears.

We all have emotional issues associated with eating. We shave the bear by buying all sorts of "quick fixes" instead of dealing with the issues that caused the problem in the first place.

When we get busy we try to do more in less time to keep up with it all. When what we really should do is re-evaluate our priorities.

It's a temporary fix...

It's bear shaving.

All of us are not bear shaving when it comes to our health and fitness goals. We are proactively dealing with it. We are taking consistent action!

But I bet we're all bear shaving in some aspect of our lives.

The first step to eliminating bear shaving is to call it when you see it. And now that we know what it is - we can.

-Adam