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I suppose I owe Michael Moore some thanks for making me so suspicious of politically motivated documentaries that more or less confirm my own prejudices that I never saw Gore's movie. Something about peoples' reactions to "An Inconvenient Truth" always put me off. They'd tell me about maps and pictures and graphs, but nobody seemed to be able to talk real numbers. Like how one measures mean global temperature, to name just one salient point. They'd get plenty upset too if I pushed them to persuade me along those lines. They'd heard the gospel and damn me for doubting, never mind that I was inclined to believe that over a century of human industry has had some impact on our climate. I mean, it seemed plausible that burning billions of barrels of oil would do something to weather; I just wanted to see an equation, even an hypothetical one.
I turns out the science is in fact, to quote the unquotable, fuzzy. And so, fuck you Al Gore for, like Michael Moore before you, painting me in the colours of the most loathsome elements in the political landscape just for suggesting that your dog and pony show seemed to have people a little too convinced. You seem like a good guy though, Al, so I'll forgive you if you follow up without trying to cover your ideological ass.
I'm still bringing a bag to the grocery store (and walking there) and turning off lights and using the AC only as a last resort, and I still think people who drive big cars are idiots. But I think lots of people are idiots.
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I suppose I owe Michael Moore some thanks for making me so suspicious of politically motivated documentaries that more or less confirm my own prejudices that I never saw Gore's movie. Something about peoples' reactions to "An Inconvenient Truth" always put me off. They'd tell me about maps and pictures and graphs, but nobody seemed to be able to talk real numbers. Like how one measures mean global temperature, to name just one salient point. They'd get plenty upset too if I pushed them to persuade me along those lines. They'd heard the gospel and damn me for doubting, never mind that I was inclined to believe that over a century of human industry has had some impact on our climate. I mean, it seemed plausible that burning billions of barrels of oil would do something to weather; I just wanted to see an equation, even an hypothetical one.
I turns out the science is in fact, to quote the unquotable, fuzzy. And so, fuck you Al Gore for, like Michael Moore before you, painting me in the colours of the most loathsome elements in the political landscape just for suggesting that your dog and pony show seemed to have people a little too convinced. You seem like a good guy though, Al, so I'll forgive you if you follow up without trying to cover your ideological ass.
I'm still bringing a bag to the grocery store (and walking there) and turning off lights and using the AC only as a last resort, and I still think people who drive big cars are idiots. But I think lots of people are idiots.