Originally Posted by couchgrouch
I'm governor of California. For eight years I claim the BIG ONE is IMMINENT, California is doomed and MAN is the cause. I regulate the hell out of companies, encourage citizens to buy expensive products to combat Geologic Change and demonize anyone who's skeptical.

Then I leave office and buy a 15 million dollar mansion on the San Andreas Fault.



There are corrupt people and opportunists on the left, on the right, rich, poor, up, down, and in-between. If you are trying to say global warming is a hoax because there are corrupt people making money off of "the idea" of it, I'm sure you can see that's an "ad hominem" attack and has no weight as an argument about the reality or un-reality of global warming.

To believe that global warming is a hoax does seem to take a greater "leap of faith" away from what most scientists are in consensus about, though, to me.

But it's just one more issue that is polarizing our nation. What ever happened to conversation without condescension? Jeez....

I don't hate anybody just because they think differently about issues than I do. Not even flat-earthers, though something like that makes me want to understand the psychology that could engender such a belief. Even though..when you think about it..we are putting our faith in science, to believe the earth is ROUND..cuz that's something we really can't know without following science's logical presentation, dating back to 600 BC and Pythagoras. I mean, we can't KNOW it experientially..so I guess it's okay to trust science on some matters..

And science was trusted far less in prior centuries, so it was far more common for people to believe the earth was flat. So it's not at all suprising to see the resistance to new ideas that appear, at least, to be scientifically based.

I just wish other folks could find more tolerance in their hearts for folks who think differently than them. Satire is a great way to make a point without hurting anyone, so kudos to the first post..

I think another interesting side demographic to global warming would be the poll numbers from folks who have children verses those who don't. It would be interesting to see if folks with larger families tended more towards a concern over global warming..I think I read that 2/3rds of people under thirty believe it to be a crucial issue, so I think the larger families would have similar numbers. My point being: one tends to look beyond ones own life, if one has kids, and they have kids, and so forth and so on..

Mike


Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 09/23/19 02:07 PM.
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