By now, I'm sure everyone knows about the Global Warming report from that meeting in France.
I'm sure everyone knows that it said global warming was "Very Likely" caused by humans. In case anyone is unclear, that's scientist-speak for "Yeah, it's our fault."
I liked it so much better when they lied to me.
I could be righteously angry. I could blame the lack of progress on "them" not admitting to the problem.
Now, though, I am faced with the stark reality of the situation that it's going to happen, that it is happening, and it will keep happening for centuries. The oceans will rise. The seasons will change, and people will die because of it.
What god damned hubris we had, eh?
Right now, it seems like a lost cause. When I first heard, you know my first thing that crossed my mind?
I can stop caring, now.
I thought that finally, someone had come along and taken a little bit of the responsibility for caring about this huge problem away from me, that finally, someone else knows this for fact. That finally, I won't feel like a timid voice in a crowd saying, "Um, maybe we should..."
It was a whole lot easier when it was them versus us. Sure, there's stil a them -- the people still polluting and causing problems, but they are in the process, if not already, of being vilified.
I guess I'm just as guilty as everyone else. I had great intentions, but I was focusing my energy on fighting "them" and was igoring the real problem. For me, it became idealogical.
Environmentalism, eco-friendly, recycling, reducing, and reusing against consumerism, wastefulness, and cheap dirty energy.
I realize what I was doing was probably the right thing, but at the risk of sounding like the preachy scene of the Hollywood movie, I feel like I was doing it for the wrong reason.