Of course not. However, that’s the title of this great article. Though amusing, it’s also thought-provokingly profound. After all, you’ve got to love the truth in this comment: “The fact is that if climate change were caused by gay sex, or by the practice of eating kittens, millions of protesters would be massing in the streets.”
With statements like “NO ONE seems to care about the upcoming attack on the World Trade Center site. Why? Because it won’t involve villains with box cutters. Instead, it will involve melting ice sheets that swell the oceans and turn that particular block of lower Manhattan into an aquarium. The odds of this happening in the next few decades are better than the odds that a disgruntled Saudi will sneak onto an airplane and detonate a shoe bomb. And yet our government will spend billions of dollars this year to prevent global terrorism and, well, essentially nothing to prevent global warming. “
Only the very naïve are still arguing that the citizens of this planet are busy destroying it. We don’t have another home — we’re destroying the place we all have to live in. Our current administration has done everything in its power to prevent any change in course, even going so far as to reverse previous administrations efforts to alleviate the current situation.