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Dec. 4th, 2007 12:05 amYou know what? THIS is global warming. To the ignorant, the phrase conjures images of a world that is perhaps half unviable desert and half primeval jungle. But when things start to warm up, that's not what happens. Despite the many correlations, the world and its atmosphere are NOT a greenhouse. It's all so much more complicated than that.
But SOME people choose to ignore the obvious. It seems like the weather systems ripping across the U.S. and the world get more fucked up every year. But still, some people claim that pollution has nothing to do with warming trends, or that the warming is a temporary blip, or even that the warming doesn't exist. Anything that would prevent them having to reduce carbon emissions. Why? Because THAT would hurt the bottom line.
You know what's really heartbreaking? The thought that someday, perhaps within our lifetime, people will have to start moving inland to live peaceful, happy lives.
Not me, though. I'll become a grey-haired, wrinkle-faced wild woman. I'll stay here and raise hearty goats and cure fevers with weeds and cling to the rocks like a mussel.
But SOME people choose to ignore the obvious. It seems like the weather systems ripping across the U.S. and the world get more fucked up every year. But still, some people claim that pollution has nothing to do with warming trends, or that the warming is a temporary blip, or even that the warming doesn't exist. Anything that would prevent them having to reduce carbon emissions. Why? Because THAT would hurt the bottom line.
You know what's really heartbreaking? The thought that someday, perhaps within our lifetime, people will have to start moving inland to live peaceful, happy lives.
Not me, though. I'll become a grey-haired, wrinkle-faced wild woman. I'll stay here and raise hearty goats and cure fevers with weeds and cling to the rocks like a mussel.
