I’ve already blogged about the indecency with which people have treated global warming. This is not a repeat, but an addendum.
Society loves to make a big deal out of issues that are silly and don’t really matter, like gay marriage or what colour of underwear Britney Spears purchases. If we didn’t draw so much attention to them, guess what: they wouldn’t affect our lives that much. Yes, shocking.
I am sick and tired of pundits on both sides of this issue blowing it out of proportion. Yes, global warming exists. Sure, maybe humans are contributing. Go ahead and debate the significance of our contribution as much as you want. The major source of controversy, it seems, are the efforts to curb our greenhouse gas emissions; some groups believe that these efforts are wastes of time. Well consider this: so what if humans don’t have an effect on global warming? Does this mean that not curbing our greenhouse gas emissions will help more than curbing them will? I am not a climatologist—or even an economist for that matter—but even if we don’t have a significant impact on global warming, I would think that lessening our dependency on fossil fuels would be good, both for the environment and the chequebook.
But of course since I don’t take an extremist stance on one side of the issue or the other, my opinion obviously isn’t going to catch on. I’ll fade back into relative obscurity now while our leaders continue to overcompensate for their shortcomings by posturing for the paparazzi. 
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I think about it this way: I‘m not sure if the whole global warming phenomenon is human made or what. I’m not a scientist by any means so I can’t really make anything more than an educated decision. Anyway, no matter what what we are doing now with fossil fuels and other things are polluting the environment, this includes, in some cases, our water supplies and the places we live and work. That is a bad thing. So whether it’s causing greenhouse gasses that produce the global warming on a scale that is not natural or not we should find some “cleaner” ways to do the things we do and create a healthier environment, and if it curbs global warming too we will have killed the porverbial two birds with one stone.
I think the problem lies in the American governments inability to take action. It seems as though a lot of the lobbyists are exagerrating the issue in order to garner public and governmental awareness. This is fine by itself but like you said Tachyon it is “desensitizing” us.
If the problem is fixable by man its going to have to be a world wide initiative. Mexico city, for instance, is the most polluted city on the planet. There’s not much USA can do about that except throw money at it, which tends to only works half of the time in any situation.
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Yeah…too much proportion in this world.
Meh…
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Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 2:19 PM