I just bought some stuff on Etsy and the woman who sold it to me has a blog link on her site. I decided to check it out, because you can meet the most interesting people on etsy. According to her blog profile, this woman, while perfectly sweet and nice, does not "believe in" global warming! How do you not believe in it? It's not like the tooth fairy! It's real! There's proof! Even the President has acknowledged it, and you know that when *even* the dumbest segment of our society knows something is true, well, it's pretty much law.
Do you know how the whole global warming denial movement began? It was started by the tobacco companies- I'm serious. They were looking for a way to take the heat off of smoking, so they created a fake think-tank and made up fake experts and started publishing reports about how global warming isn't real. It could have been any issue- the killer bees are coming, breast cancer is caused by deodorant, dogs cause blindness- anything- but they chose instead to pretend global warming was a myth. Well, they did a GREAT job, because now TONS of people believe this to be a fact. Unfortunately for the tobacco guys, almost everyone on earth knows smoking is awful, so it only really did half the trick. But what bothers me is that even though the fact that they made up the lie about global warming is no longer a secret, people still don't believe global warming is real. It's real! How many times do we have to say it??? What do we have to do to make people understand??? If reading the news still doesn't hammer it home, I guess there's no point trying. The point is, we are DESTROYING the world as we know it. If people aren't going to do anything to stop global warming, the least they can do is acknowledge they're contributing to it.
Ugh. It just makes me crazy! It's like trying to get someone to switch political parties. Impossible!
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