No seriously. Its a pretty valid question.
What if every assistant to every respected climatologist in the world just happened to spill coffee on the bosses computer and mess up the raw data coming out of the atmosphere?
Or what if we are all miscalculating the facts in front of us and projecting Armageddon too early?
What if the ‘global warming swindle’ is just a ploy by the left to further its own end?
What if Jimmy Lovelock has been dabbling in LCD ever since the 1960’s?
What if we are all just being dramatic?
Let’s just imagine for a second that the deniers are 100% right, that global warming will not affect us much as we move into a new millennium, and total earth system collapse is not around the corner.
That still doesn’t make our polluting, destructive, regressive and disrespectful way of life right! For that is what we have.
Just because we are not facing some kind of apocalypse does not mean that we can continue to pollute the atmosphere, destroy eco-systems, dump our rubbish where ever we please and continue to develop a way of life that is harming not only individual species and eco-systems, but the earth system entire.
That’s what annoys me about the contemporary debate. Its come down to whether or not you ‘believe in global warming’ like it is some kind of ideology. The whole thing is getting caught up in colloquial debates between contemporary interest groups. How has it become a Left / Right, Christian / Atheist talking point? How small minded can people really get.
Its like watching passengers on the Titanic fighting over who gets to keep the piano, or who caused the problem, or whether or not she is really going to sink when clearly the boat is filling with salt water from the cold Atlantic, its beginning to tip somewhat, there are clearly not enough life boats to go around, the poor are locked in steerage and Leonardo and Kate have already run to the back of the boat and are hanging on for dear life.
ALARM BELLS ARE RINGING PEOPLE!!
It will be interesting to see how high and moral all of these deniers are when they have to start fighting over life boats.
Just because you are not doing enough damage to kill a person does not mean you can continue to beat the crap out of him.
It really is that simple.
Our actions, our way of life, is wrong! It is disrespectful and it seeks to destroy the reality of how our world actually works.
Our job is to build a way of life that does recognise and respect the earth system.
We all (left /right, black/white/asian, men/women, muslim/christian/atheist/miscellaneous) gain from this process. We all fade away without it.
Look to it!
Filed under: Thoughts | Tagged: Environment, environmental issues, Environmental Movement, Global Warming
