March 20, 2007

• Now to go into more about yesterday’s post. If you haven’t read the article from yesterday’s post, I’m going to wait and give you time to read it right now. Ok, so now that you are updated, I hope you are as outraged as I am. Now, I want to state that I like to consider myself environmentally sound, but have my own opinions on global warming. That being said, Bush might be kind of, how should I say, a reverse hippie. He is a war monger who doesn’t give a shit about the environment. The only green he cares about is money. Now, I will be the first to say that the Democrats have their own agendas and scaring people with global warming is one of them. More on that later, though. But, the mere fact that Bush would try to cover up global warming is alarming, disturbing, and unethical. And I find it mighty interesting that this guy quite the Bush Abomination to work for an oil company.

  I actually had a long conversation with a friend last week about global warming. She and I have different opinions on the whole thing. See, I think its obvious something is happening. However, how do we know its not something that naturally occurs with the earth? After all, the earth once went through an ice age and then warmed up enough to get to this point. There is also the case of Iceland which used to be nothing but ice and is now green. So, how do we know this isn’t just a natural cycle. You know, maybe this is just the earth’s version of menopause and it is having hot flashes.  My friend brought up a good point as well. She wonders if this is just the natural evolution of a planet as it starts to die out. Perhaps other planets have gone through this same change before they burned out and eventually it will happen to us. I think both are interesting theories.

  Yet, just about every scientist and weather person seems to agree and who am I to argue with them: global warming is real and we are the problem. No matter which is right (and I would bet money on the scientists) something is happening and we should try to do anything we can to correct it. My thinking is that it only makes sense that all of these toxins, carbons, and smoke that we release into the air has to be doing some sort of damage. The question is, it is as bad as they say it is? Honestly, I just don’t trust Al Gore. After all, he is a politician and pretty much all politicians have an agenda and use fear to their advantage, so why would Al Gore be any different? Also, who is to say the scientists aren’t being paid to say whatever the Democrats and Al Gore want them to say? I always tell myself to be more cynical when it comes to politics. The reality is that over the years, there has been a long list of things that were awful and would lead to the end of the world and none of them were ever as bad as they (politicians, and the media; among others) have tried telling us. Remember the hole in the o-zone? Sure, still a problem, but 15 years ago they were telling us all sorts of shit that was going to happen in 10 years, and still nothing. What about SARS? Killed some people, but it was no black plague. Same with mad cow disease and the bird flu.

  The frustrating part here is that they have cried wolf so many times that you don’t know what to believe anymore. I mean, is global warming as bad as they say it is, or are we being set up to be played the fool once again? Are they preying on our fears? Can we afford not to take them for face value? We live in a world and a society that thrives on fear. Sure, we all do it, even in our own daily lives. We make things out to be worse than what they actually are. Are we following their lead or are they only a reflection of ourselves? It has gotten to the point where its hard to tell where the bullshit ends and where the truth starts. Sure, I want to believe that they are telling the truth about global warming. Frankly, I have no reason to believe they are lying. After all, what does Gore stand to benefit from it, he is not going to run for president or political office again. I don’t think he made enough money from his movie to justify everything that he has said and done. Normally, I can figure out why a person lies and what they have to benefit from the lie. For example, Bush lied about Iraq, he and his cronies stood to benefit both financially and politically from it, so its easy to see why he did it. But this global warming thing? Who benefits and who makes money off of lying about it? Bush changes reports about global warming, it helps his oil interests. But, what does Gore and other environmental people get from lying about it.

  All that being said, I’m inclined to think its a problem. I think we should do our best to fix the problem, if not for the earth than for us. After all, it can not be healthily for all of us to be breathing in those gasses and toxins. I think global warming is a serious problem, but probably not as bad a Gore says. He says we are at a tipping point. I just don’t believe its that far. Yet.

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