In the movie “It’s All Cool” has some disturbing information on climate change and government censorship. There was however, something that I found even more troublesome as I watched the video. Both sides are vehemently opposed to what the other believes, in this case, climate change. Everyone cannot be telling the truth, which leads me to believe that someone is lying. It doesn’t matter who (even though I have an idea), but one of the sides in this argument is knowingly lying.
It’s troubling to think that this is happening. Why would those who don’t believe in climate change lie about it when they know we are on a dangerous path to a warmer earth? And why would environmentalists lie about global warming (yes, why would they do that?)? Are they just trying to create panic I order to further their radical agenda?
We need to take a look at what each side’s argument does. The anti-environmentalist argument causes people to feel safe, to go about business as usual, to help our economy. The environmentalists want us to re-evaluate how we use harmful products, our industry, and our waste methods. I don’t think that anti-environmentalists want our planet to be irreversibly damaged and for humans to die a slow and painful death, and I don’t think environmentalists want to create unnecessary panic. Then why do we have such polarized views on the matter? You would think that we might be able to get a straight scientific answer to let us know what is really going on. I know what I believe, but can’t help but have some little bit of doubt in my mind because the other side is so vehemently opposed. These seed of doubt are what arrest our progress and hurt the human race as a whole.
It’s troubling to think about because in this modern day humans can’t get on the same page in order to do something at important as figuring out what is best for our home planet. These organizations need to put their agendas, egos, and the thought of money aside in order for anything to ever get done. If we can’t do that then we don’t deserve earth.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
I Like Snow
Let’s forget for a minute all the “likelys” “very likelys” and “medium confidences” and look at what this synthesis report is really telling us: The world’s climate is getting warmer, and it’s changing things. Slowly but surely we have seen changes in global surface temperature, sea level, and northern hemisphere snow cover. Earth is here to sustain life, and for the past few millions of years it has done a pretty good job. Now is not the time for humans to be meddling in the inner workings of our planet and bringing about these effects.
Right now these things are just that, effects. The rise in oceans, temperature and reduction in snowfall has not yet brought about colossal change in our way of life. But it’s somebody else’s problem until it gets to affecting humans. There just happens to be no one else to pass the buck on to.
Perhaps it’s going to take New York City being overrun by the Atlantic ocean for people to begin to take climate change seriously. Then again that may never happen. For all we know, climate change is a perfectly normal phase of the earth’s weather cycle and we are just going through a warm phase. But it seems an awful lot like humans are the cause, and looking at what else we’ve done to the planet, I don’t feel confident having the climate in our hands.
The scariest fact of all is that our affect on the planet is growing, “average arctic temperatures have increases at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years,” (30). This means that we are only picking up steam on our way to a much warmer earth. The statistics mentioned above are only going to be exacerbated as we keep ignoring our contribution to our warming climate.
The earth knows what to do. It knows how to sustain life. Ironically those that rely on it most are the ones contributing to its destruction. We love earth’s benefits, just as an athlete loves their body, but when it comes time to do the push ups and lift the weights we just seem to want to stick a syringe full of anabolic steroids in our ass and call it a day.
Right now these things are just that, effects. The rise in oceans, temperature and reduction in snowfall has not yet brought about colossal change in our way of life. But it’s somebody else’s problem until it gets to affecting humans. There just happens to be no one else to pass the buck on to.
Perhaps it’s going to take New York City being overrun by the Atlantic ocean for people to begin to take climate change seriously. Then again that may never happen. For all we know, climate change is a perfectly normal phase of the earth’s weather cycle and we are just going through a warm phase. But it seems an awful lot like humans are the cause, and looking at what else we’ve done to the planet, I don’t feel confident having the climate in our hands.
The scariest fact of all is that our affect on the planet is growing, “average arctic temperatures have increases at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years,” (30). This means that we are only picking up steam on our way to a much warmer earth. The statistics mentioned above are only going to be exacerbated as we keep ignoring our contribution to our warming climate.
The earth knows what to do. It knows how to sustain life. Ironically those that rely on it most are the ones contributing to its destruction. We love earth’s benefits, just as an athlete loves their body, but when it comes time to do the push ups and lift the weights we just seem to want to stick a syringe full of anabolic steroids in our ass and call it a day.
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