15th March 2008, 10:12 PM
Well, hates the environment at least.
Really, the scientific evidence is extremely, extremely strong and utterly convincing. The reality is also obvious from simply looking around... so the world just happened to start warming at just the exact right time for the industrial revolution to warm things up? The cold snap around the late 1700s vanished with no cause, then now things are just happening to warm, human action unnecessary?
While the world is obviously a very, very complex system, the idea that human action, on the massive, massive scale it occurs on, has nothing to do with that is simply absurd, and things like An Inconvenient Truth show that very well.
I mean... it shouldn't even really matter. We know that pollution is polluting the environment and makes the world worse for us to live in. Shouldn't that alone be enough for us to want to get rid of as much of it as possible? American air quality is being ruined by clouds of pollution floating halfway around the world from China, and Northeastern US air quality is being ruined by clouds of pollution floating in from Midwestern coal-burning power plants! Considering things like that, or all the evidence of environmental destruction... aside from extremely, extremely short-sighted reasons (like, say, virtually all Republican policies of the past ... many ... decades...), it's hard to see how people could be opposed.
But money talks, of course, and it talks loudly, so people that like money (and are afraid of change, because as green industries show money and helping the environment are not always things that are impossible to rectify with eachother) dislike doing anything significant to slow global warming or help the environment.
What'll it take to convince people, the polar ice caps melting?
Really, the scientific evidence is extremely, extremely strong and utterly convincing. The reality is also obvious from simply looking around... so the world just happened to start warming at just the exact right time for the industrial revolution to warm things up? The cold snap around the late 1700s vanished with no cause, then now things are just happening to warm, human action unnecessary?
While the world is obviously a very, very complex system, the idea that human action, on the massive, massive scale it occurs on, has nothing to do with that is simply absurd, and things like An Inconvenient Truth show that very well.
I mean... it shouldn't even really matter. We know that pollution is polluting the environment and makes the world worse for us to live in. Shouldn't that alone be enough for us to want to get rid of as much of it as possible? American air quality is being ruined by clouds of pollution floating halfway around the world from China, and Northeastern US air quality is being ruined by clouds of pollution floating in from Midwestern coal-burning power plants! Considering things like that, or all the evidence of environmental destruction... aside from extremely, extremely short-sighted reasons (like, say, virtually all Republican policies of the past ... many ... decades...), it's hard to see how people could be opposed.
But money talks, of course, and it talks loudly, so people that like money (and are afraid of change, because as green industries show money and helping the environment are not always things that are impossible to rectify with eachother) dislike doing anything significant to slow global warming or help the environment.
What'll it take to convince people, the polar ice caps melting?
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