Are you kidding?....
White House aide Philip A. Cooney doctored reports on global warming to weaken their efficacy.
Please, can we protest this? Please, can we get mad and reignite the movement? Please, can we start to see again that the environment is the most pressing issue of our time? National and international tension is of course the most immediately visible and notable news, but the hastening effects of global warming are major factors in aggravating these strained relations. Since the beginning of humankind, the struggle has been for land, as it remains today, though veiled in politics, ideology, and war. Aknowledging the problems that we all cause for the balance of our world's ecosystem, therefore, is an absolute neccesity in order to realize lasting peace. If we are honest, we have nothing to hide.
Please Please Please
Read the New York Times article, and get mad.
We all are from the same planet, whether we aknowledge that or not. Please do.
Please, can we protest this? Please, can we get mad and reignite the movement? Please, can we start to see again that the environment is the most pressing issue of our time? National and international tension is of course the most immediately visible and notable news, but the hastening effects of global warming are major factors in aggravating these strained relations. Since the beginning of humankind, the struggle has been for land, as it remains today, though veiled in politics, ideology, and war. Aknowledging the problems that we all cause for the balance of our world's ecosystem, therefore, is an absolute neccesity in order to realize lasting peace. If we are honest, we have nothing to hide.
Please Please Please
Read the New York Times article, and get mad.
We all are from the same planet, whether we aknowledge that or not. Please do.
posted by Sturgeon General at 12:11 AM
1 Comments:
Dear Jon,
It's not you, it's me.
(Ha, sorry. That was a joke.)
Anyway - That was very well said, my friend, thank you for contributing your 2000 cents to my poor bloggish rage. Always welcome. And your comments do raise some good points. I agree that the modern onslaught of rapidly (vapidly) mediated information (due to its commodification), coupled with a mass denial of mass misinterpretation, is directly responsible for our "problems." Yet that brings up the question of what our problems are... What makes "problem"? Which leads me to something that you said with which I feel the need to disagree.
I deny stating that the best thing to offer is the truth. Instead, I did mention honesty. We should not get confused between the two. The truth is a lie, as it is language - language, "by definiton," is limited. In the not-so-immortal words of Lenny Bruce, "There is no anonymous giver, except perhaps the guy who knocks up your daughter." That is to say - with a little interpretation: Our "problems" are only what are designated as such (by us).
The "true" (ha) problem, therefore, "lies" (ha) in anonymity. Honesty is only to reveal yourself - "we have nothing to hide." So when Philip Cooney puts his 264 cents (per gallon) into an otherwise scientific study on global warming without aknowledging his "contributions" (how humble), he is using anonymity as a symbol of truth.
So... basically, what I'm getting at is that politicians are dishonest.
Go figure.
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