This climate change bizzo is really starting to irk me. Not that I don't accept the rationality of the IPCC's arguments (although I still reserve a small amount of scepticism, just in case). But the zeal with which climate missionaries preach is a little alarming. Shows like TV3's Wa$ted, in which a couple of jerks bully lardy types into skipping showers, just seems nasty.
Our Government takes the view that responses to climate change should come from the bottom up. Or in other words, "you first". That's commitment for you. Alright, there are initiatives like the Emissions Trading Scheme... which has been postponed... well at least we did ratify Kyoto... for all the good that is doing.
And, irony of ironies, we hosted World Environment Day this year.
All up you have self-flagellating zealots on one side of the debate, big-business backed reactionaries on the other side, and governments in the middle going... 'meh'.
It's all so hopeless I refuse to give it any attention. Wake me up when the seas and deserts claim us, frankly. Or as Ice Cube once put it, Fuck all y'all.
Posted by stuart at June 15, 2008 9:56 PM