Global warming is just one of many, many emergency environmental issues -- like, the world is just plain looking trashy lately -- but, hey, warming gets all the press these days. Whether or not the uptick in earthly sweatiness is caused by man ("anthropogenic") or cosmos (solar flares?) is kind of a moot point: everyone pretty much agrees there's some warming going on, and, to me, anything that panics consumers into using less and actually thinking about how products are made and where they come from is a good thing. Consumer consciousness needs a swift kick in the pants -- let the panic continue!I encounter this kind of thinking quite often. I don't think these people have any idea of the damage that can be done by misguided efforts to deal with this non-problem.
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I agree with both of you and this breif exchange is the most intelligent short characterization of the problem I have ever seen. This was one of the first things to come up on google tonight? How are both of these folks right? Economic and cultural problems DO get caused by unexamined hysterical compulsive behaviour. In addition, the 'looks' of our collective behaviour is that we are just wasteful hypocritical irrational idiots. You have dogmatic capitalist materialists denying that there are any consequences to their addiction. Then you have the 'good guys' indulging in their own orgy of 'green' consumption. What kind of age are we living in? Time to examine our fundamentals.
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