It is scary, isn't it, how people can take such polar opposite views, and each be quite convinced that only their opinion can be right. I suppose that's how wars start.
Douglas Adams - Author of the Hitchhikers' Guide to The Galaxy - had it about right. If your read the books, you know they are written from somewhere VERY far away, and in a space where the planet "Earth" assumes about as much significance as, well, a tea leaf knows of the history of the East India Tea Company. Adams observes of mankind, and its belief of his place in the cosmos, as follows. "Man" (reasoned Man) " Must be the most intelligent species in the Universe, for if more intelligent life did exist, it would have made itself known to Man by now". It turned out of course, that many vastly more intelligent lifeforms
did exist in the Universe, but when they scanned Planet Earth, they detected no signs of any
real intelligence, so had moved on. I paraphrase, but you get the drift
Two approaches to Global Warming.
- Do nothing for a hundred years, and the deniers can laugh out load at the believers if they are right, or die alongside them if they are wrong
- Do something PDQ and then the believers can say "told you so" if they are right, and "oops, sorry" if they are wrong.
Choose.
