Quote:
Originally Posted by josh white
I find it disturbing that people dismiss him out of hand without ever having heard his argument. Setting up a straw man argument to support their pathetically IGNORANT position.
Is this willfull ignorance out of a desire not wanting to believe that the evidence he broadcasts from the world's scientists is correct? Why?
|
Because no one wants to look in the mirror. Especially in an economy that lives and breathes oil and gas. Its much easier to dismiss the science, and keep driving our massive SUV's to work and back every day, and enjoying the luxuries that the oil boom has brought. No one wants to hear that there is problems associated with it.
And then they make shallow arguments like "Al Gore will get here by plane"...yeah, so what? I'm sure Al Gore isn't implying that people should immediately stop using vehicles of any type. But we need to acknowledge the problem. And even if he himself came in on horse and carriage, that wouldn't help, it has to be a societal change that we all make together, to develop more envirofriendly technology, etc.
People choose to hear what they want to hear, and there's those who can dismiss global warming just like there are those who can dismiss evolution. Evidence has nothing to do with it.