Global Warming

[RagnaToad]

Yeah, there's your typical human being for you.

Would it bother you if Hitler was your grandfather and no one but you knew?

I mean, most people tend to feel some responsibility for their environment, be it society, be it the planet's health. You wouldn't like to be called "that guy who didn't help save the earth", would you? (Obviously, you wouldn't be called that, but the principle stands.)

I don't like mixing up fiction and discussions like these, but just for fun:
In movies, you would be that old wiseguy who was sceptic about zombies really existing, and eventually getting eaten by one because he refused to stay in broad daylight.

[Furore]

Yeah, there's your typical human being for you.

Would it bother you if Hitler was your grandfather and no one but you knew?

Probably not. You don't have to think or act as your relatives do and sometimes you forgive a relative you care about enough for the things that are unforgivable.

I mean, most people tend to feel some responsibility for their environment, be it society, be it the planet's health. You wouldn't like to be called "that guy who didn't help save the earth", would you? (Obviously, you wouldn't be called that, but the principle stands.)

When I'm dead they can call me whatever they want. As I'll have lived a better life there's a good chance they'd be saying it out of spite or jealousy or something.

I don't like mixing up fiction and discussions like these, but just for fun:
In movies, you would be that old wiseguy who was sceptic about zombies really existing, and eventually getting eaten by one because he refused to stay in broad daylight.

You know what I don't hate? I don't hate vests. [/end left4dead reference]
In the movies you'd be the guy who gets eaten by me as a zombie. Because you have brains and zombies like eating brains if popular culture is to be believed.

The same popular culture in which global warming is an immediate threat which we might all die from tomorrow. That's all I see the fearmongering as. A simple threat that a little research will show isn't as much of a worry as a few other things. It's totally overhyped.

But I mentioned the graphs I saw in an earlier post. They really didn't show too big a link between carbon emissions and global warming. And I was awesome with graphs in high school!!! My point still stands. Why worry about the effects of global warning?

ALSO! Why does anyone personally give a shit if global warming does strike in a century or five? That never got answered...