Thursday, April 12, 2012

"Scientific" American interviews a cartoonist who says "You can't be a sentient person in the beginning of the 21st century and not want to address climate change"

The Funny Side of Climate Change: Scientific American

Kate Evans majored in English during college in 1990s Britain while she perfected the art of getting arrested for trying to prevent the U.K. government and industry from cutting down too many trees. A fan of science, she gradually turned her artistic talents and environmental passions to crafting comics about climate change. I

[Q] Your online bio explains your interest in cartooning, but why did you take on climate change?

[Evans] Well it's the elephant in the room, isn't it? You can't be a sentient person in the beginning of the 21st century and not want to address climate change. If you do not, you must be in denial. I'm just so cross right now, too. I just saw a BBC documentary about the weirding of weather, and they never mentioned the words "greenhouse gases" or "carbon dioxide." And they kept saying, "scientists believe" this, "scientists believe" that. No, scientists have proved it. They're not some kind of church. There is scientific consensus. I feel very strongly about that.

2 comments:

alanstorm said...

Bit full of herself, isn't she? And in a field she knows nothing about...

This is the end result of boosting self-esteem where it's not deserved.

Sean said...

What really ironic is that energy from biomass like wood has driven up the cost of lumber so much you can no longer make furniture in Britain. I don't know how much native wood they are burning but I know they are importing "biomass" from here in the US.