Worrying About the Wrong Problems
Some time ago, Time magazine ran a piece discussing how Americans worry about the wrong things. Today, Michael Barone makes essentially the same point -- why is it that so many of us are wasting time obssessing about speculative and incalculable threats like that of global warming, while conveniently ignoring verifiable and quanitiable problems like the problems with Social Security?
Could it be because for many global warming zealots, there's a quasi-religious aspect to the issue?
Could it be because for many global warming zealots, there's a quasi-religious aspect to the issue?
posted by LadybugUSA at 8:05 AM
4 Comments:
Faith based science is an oxymoron.
Probably because the threat of Global Warming has been put forward by SCIENTISTS and is far more harmful to people's future than social security.
When 99.9% of Climatologists agree on something, it's time to sit up and take notice.
It could be that dealing with the Global Warming type problems don't require any real effort and are less results oriented. By that I mean that no matter what one does, one can claim to be helping without any real way of proving they'be mattered at all. Thus, no effort is too small to trumpet. With real problems, such as SS, the war, crime, etc., it's far easier to determine if a given effort is worthwhile. One can be seen as a failure or an incompetent by virtue of worsening or having no effect on the issue at hand. With GW? "Hey, I changed lightbulbs! I care! I've made a difference! Can't measure it, but I have."
We're playing a new version of an old game
"I have better scientists than you do"
the only fact that I can draw from OSO is that 99.9% of climatologists breath oxygen. As I tell my students - when you make gross statements like thta, name your source.
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