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Okay..a satirical pitch from the other viewpoint..If I was a current writer on SNL, I'd be pitching the following sketch idea.

The setting, 600 BC, Rome. Dialogue in the style of Sophocles, and with a Greek Chorus. Pythagoras has just discovered the earth is round and has traveled to Rome to inform its senate. He takes his findings to the "senate" where Wiggus Maximus (Alec Baldwin reprising his Trump) sits, toga clad.

Pythagorus pitches Wiggus.

Wiggus is not impressed and taunts the Greek by holding onto the "thag" part of his name when addressing him, saying "so, PyTHAGoras..what is this science you keep talking about,"

Then, "PyTHAGoras, what are these scientific facts? --they sound like FAKE facts, to me" and the other senate members nod in agreement and the Greek Chorus has been repeating eveything Wiggus says verbatim.

Then "how else to explain Boltonius, Sessionus,Tillersonius, Scarramuccilus and Comeytose--all wandering off, never to be found? They wandered off and fell off the earth, everyone knows that. It's a cold, hard, fact."

At this point, Pouncius whispers to Wiggus, "sir, you fired all those guys.."

Wiggus ends with "PyTHAGoras, when you say "the earth is round" ---it's as preposterous as a belief that one day, many eons from today, there will be so much poop..let's call it waste..let's call it emissions..that one day there will be SO MUCH poop and waste and emissions from everything that it will..that it will..(Wiggus ponders)..make a hole in the sky that makes the sun too hot and then we'll all eventually die, hahahaha...ridiculous...The earth is FLAT! Go home, THAGGY.......


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That's all I got..certainly a viable SNL idea.

I think part of the problem accepting the scientific evidence is that it can be quite hard to grasp, and we DO have to take a leap of faith that it's not a giant conspiracy of scientists, made to look like they are fact-finding. But the idea that THAT could be the case seems outrageously preposterous to me. Though perhaps acceptable to a minority. Hence the sketch idea, relating flat-earth belief in 600 BC to modern anti-climate-change belief in the present..things we can't quite wrap our brains around or experience experientially we can easily have doubts about.

I think it's far more easy to accept that another, un-foreseen event could happen that would alter things and make climate change moot. Such as a comet..than to believe in a giant conspiracy of scientists..