Global Warning
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Yes, NASA made an honest mistake, but that doesn’t change the overall global trend. (Read top climate scientist James Hansen’s response.) Why is there still debate over this? It’s not a matter of religion, politics, or personal ideology—in this case there actually IS a right or wrong answer, and the fact is the earth is heating up because of unrepentant, unrelenting human folly. In the end, it’s not about the environment, it’s about the survival of the human species.
The environment will repair itself—flourish, even—after we’re gone, because, as David Suzuki (I love this man) says in The 11th Hour, the planet “has all the time in the world.” But we don’t. We who needlessly, recklessly consume and endure the drudgery of work just to be able to overconsume again, at the expense of another’s suffering; we who have lost touch with the things that are truly important and of worth—we, our children, and their children will just be a blackened footnote in Earth’s history.
Earlier, I overhead two men fussing over the volumes of their iPhones. Thousands of years of civilization and it all boils down to whose ringtone is LOUDER.
Heather said,
August 18, 2007 at 1:59 pm
“We who needlessly, recklessly consume and endure the drudgery of work just to be able to overconsume again, at the expense of another’s suffering; we who have lost touch with the things that are truly important and of worth—we, our children, and their children will just be a blackened footnote in Earth’s history.”
Wow, what an incredibly concise and powerful summing up of the situation! Thnak you!
CindyW said,
August 18, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Brilliant wrap! Since about 2 years ago, I set up a personal goal of increasing the ratio of food bill/other consumption bill - to bump our food quality to local and organic and to minize our other consumption. We have been on a upward trajectory, so yippee!
Love your post and have put it in our weekly roundup: http://www.organicpicks.com/blog/2007/08/18/global-warming-vs-iphone-ringtones/
bohemiangirl said,
August 27, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Amen Sister. Love, love, love your site. Thank you.