Jun 24 2008
Take The Bridge
Another month, another issue of The Sun arrives, just in time to cheer me up. LOL! As usual, I start with the reader correspondence and encountered this gem:
Lately I’ve been paralyzed by depression about the climate crisis and hatrid for President Bush’s cruel policies. Rather than work on a solution, though, I’ve paced the floor worrying about my toddler’s future.
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, people sure love to feel bad! Christ Almighty, how can you get “paralyzed by depression” by CLIMATE CHANGE? The death of a loved one, sure. Failed relationships, I can understand. But Georgie Porgie and melting ice? Give me a fucking break.
I really, really, really, really wish that they taught history in schools. Real history, not some bullshit memorization of dates and other meaningless facts. A little word of advice for the hand-wringers out there: Things have been a lot worse. A LOT worse. You ain’t seen nothing.
All these fucktards talk about the “downward spiral” of humanity. Oh, the country is dying! Oh, boo-hoo! We’re doomed! Well, if everyone started thinking like that, sure, we’re doomed. But here’s the thing: While you are crying into your beer some of us are actually trying to do something. George will be gone, replaced by another bimbo to wring our hands at. Climate change, a big problem, but it’s a problem. Problems have solutions. They might not be easy. They might not be cheap. But there is a solution to every problem.
A glimmer of hope from the writer: “He has inspired me to stop whining and start moving.” A good sign, for sure, but if something like a dying penguin makes you curl up in a ball, then I question your intestinal fortitude. Still, the first step is admitting you have a problem, right?
With that, I flipped to the back page, read some of the Sunbeams (probably the best part of the magazine), and then tossed it to the heap, ready for donation to the library. Maybe someone else will appreciate the sobbing and whining. I don’t.
4 Responses to “Take The Bridge”
Now, I have no doubt that all the pollution we humans are tossing into the air are affecting the climate, but there is a theory that the current Holocene epoch is a geological and meteorological fiction, and that we have not actually ended the Pleistocene epoch, which was the last of the ice ages. In other words, the Earth has been a hell of lot hotter and more tropical in the not too distant past, and we could be ending a natural cold period in Earth’s history. Of course, it is easier to panic than to go out and educate yourself. As a side rant to poor education — Maybe if the CPS was busy teaching kids and not bribing them with cars for a lousy three months of perfect attendance, things might be a little better.
LOL. Because perfect attendance = SMRT. The Nelsons are PROUD of their 25+ days of absences!
Yea, I agree about the climate stuff. You look at the record and you see that the antarctic was a frickin rain forest at one time (there’s a good graphic in this months Wired).
Whatever the reason, I think that we’re smart enough primates to figure out how to survive. We build climate controlled environments. We do some eco-engineering. We develop new tech to solve the problems. I just get sick of people saying WE’RE DOOMED — like NOBODY is going to do ANYTHING about the problem. Screw that.
The graphic I mentioned was not in Wired, but in New Scientist. The June 21-27 issue has a lead story called “Hothouse Earth” with dinosaurs at the poles and other strange tales — with the average temp of the upper 80s F for most of the planet.
Oh The Sun–I can’t wait for that subscription to run out. I mean, I still really appreciate the lack of ads and the occasional good piece of writing but jesus, just hand me the razor to slit my wrists now.
I think it really showed how bad school was that I still got all A’s with 25+ days absent…or how SMRT I am
I think people thrive on drama and feeling like their world is about to end. So no matter what, there is always something these drama queens will worry themselves to death over.