[Global Warming]
More Bad News.
As a follow-up to last night's delightfully hopeful story that we will, within a few generations, be Mad Max-like refugees of global warming on the tropical Greenland shelf, we have David Ignatius today illustrating why global warming just can't compete with Britney Spears:
So many of the things that pass for news don't matter in any ultimate sense. But if people such as Lovejoy and Kolbert are right, we are all but ignoring the biggest story in the history of humankind. Kolbert concluded her series last year with this shattering thought: "It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing." She's right. The failure of the United States to get serious about climate change is unforgivable, a human folly beyond imagining.He refers to Elizabeth Kolbert's groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, now no longer available online. But fear not--it will be out in an expanded version in book form in April.
3 comments:
there's an increasing, and somewhat alarming, preference in the US to avoid any topic that might be considered negative or cynical...even to the point of ignoring important issues, like say the war in Iraq or global warming. this is especially prevalent in mass media. even NPR does it with their softball questions and sidestepping of real issues.
only the news channels/shows are in your face about it and no one worth his salt watches that crap.
isnt this what has happened throughout human history: the bloated, crumbling society ignores/denies the obvious signals of its impending collapse.
'advanced society' but not wise
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