I find it kind of hilarious and dismaying when more or less intelligent people go searching for ways to debunk global warming. I'm not saying An Inconvenient Truth wasn't alarmist; maybe we won't really be fifty feet underwater in the next ten minutes....So what? Should we all jump in our hummers and start blasting Toby Keith out of our stereos while eating Chik'umm MgNugats and drinking a two liter medium-gulp of Moxie brand cola (now with twice the quinine and aromatic bitters!)? Global Warming alarmists might be alarmist, but they're not a harmful force that needs to be debunked. Especially now, when we have a reformed "hawk" who now votes with the worst president in history--or whatever, maybe making broad generalizations like that is nonsensical, and comparing presidents as if historical context were easy to manipulate is foolish and ultimately unproductive...but does that mean George W. Bush isn't a bad president? Maybe it doesn't make sense to argue about who's the worst president ever, but he's still a shit president who's done more harm than good and defending him out of reactionary contrariness is even less productive than decrying him.
All I'm saying is, eco-psychopaths may be annoying...but they're nowhere near as annoying is fat lazy trustfund kids with enormous egos who contribute nothing to society other than singing elitist rich people muzak to elitist rich people and reading novels about spiders from outer space.
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