Chicken Little Has a New Song

We got back from our trip Friday night, but I've been cleaning, doing laundry, obsessing, zoning out, and going a hundred miles an hour at work, playing catch-up. Until . . .

 

Until something stops me, like an e-mail from my friend Anthony, and then all my pent-up brainstorms come rushing out. That very thing happened yesterday, when Anthony e-mailed me a skeptical, sarcastic and funny comment about the whole global warming industry. Just for something different, this is my e-mail response, written in about four minutes (and feel free to pelt me with tomatoes if you don't agree):

 

. . . the shrill "it is because it is" circular reasoning has hit a fever pitch and is just getting louder. Radio ads and PSAs and event promos cite global warming as a confirmed reality, a given not worthy of questioning. Here's our premise, THEREFORE here's what MUST be done.

I'm not denying global warming, I just question the validity of the thinking that humans are having much (or even anything) to do with it. Hey, all the steps individuals may take to reduce their "carbon footprints" (groan -- it's the newest PC speak and it makes my head hurt) are probably good ideas, and I'm not against most of them (except those stupid light bulbs). But I think the mass hysteria we're experiencing is akin to Chicken Little and The Sky Is Falling Band.

My prediction is that Al Gore peaked too early, however, given our culture's notoriously short attention span for anything that isn't sparkly and shiny. They'll soon tire of his drone and we can get back to our enormous fossil fuel consumption without so much as a pang of guilt.

HA!

Bet you didn't see THIS rant coming. I'm enormously busy and mentally wiped out, so this rushed out of me like a dam breaking. Sorry.

What were we talking about?

Comments

[Shower Stalls]

HAHA thats terrible what ever happened to chicken little?

[Mantel Man]

Yes, the Carbon Footprint Club seems to be shouting, "Don't listen to anyone who doubts we're causing the warming; their position isn't legitimate."

I'll be the judge of that, thank you. I suspect we are contributing to global warming, but I want the world to get over fossil fuels simply so I can see the mountains and know that the Riviera isn't full of Arabs.

[Jessica Keith]

I'm still here. I excorcised Snorpht just after that comment was made. Don't know how that happened!

[foolery]

Oh my gosh, Snorpht has taken over your brain. Jessie? Are you in there? Can you hear me?! But big kudos to you, and let's do a little happy dance and get carbon footprints all over Al's $4000 suit.

[Jessica Keith]

Preach it sista! Al Gore can eat me AND my carbon footprints!