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It's not that scary but apparently we need some alarmist bullshit to get people on board for environmental conservation, which should be a common sense policy in any case, with or without the doom and gloom world-ending predictions.
Pollution, decrease of animal biodiversity, desertification, the cutting down of forests, these are the sort of things that we should be worried about plenty, regardless of whether the apocalypse is coming for us, or not.
People always enjoy a nice, gloomy prediction of the apocalypse, of icebergs melting, the earth shaking, oceans rising and the heat melting all of the life away, because it enhances their sense of importance. We've had one for every century.
I worry that when some of these predictions don't come to pass, we'll go back to spend as lavishly and as disproportionately as we ever have, now convinced that we've saved the world by cutting down on some carbon dioxide, and by buying some over-priced "green" products. Not a good idea to build up your environmentalist ideology on a potential house of cards.
Pollution, decrease of animal biodiversity, desertification, the cutting down of forests, these are the sort of things that we should be worried about plenty, regardless of whether the apocalypse is coming for us, or not.
People always enjoy a nice, gloomy prediction of the apocalypse, of icebergs melting, the earth shaking, oceans rising and the heat melting all of the life away, because it enhances their sense of importance. We've had one for every century.
I worry that when some of these predictions don't come to pass, we'll go back to spend as lavishly and as disproportionately as we ever have, now convinced that we've saved the world by cutting down on some carbon dioxide, and by buying some over-priced "green" products. Not a good idea to build up your environmentalist ideology on a potential house of cards.
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