Taking Comfort In Lunacy

GLOBAL WARMING is a hoax, perpetrated and perpetuated by an elite liberal conspiracy, for political purposes. This conspiracy consists of tens of thousands of scientists, science teachers, and politicians. Either that, or it sonsists of only a few diabolical , highly manipulative individuals, who have tens of thousnads of scientists and science teachers utterly duped, for political reasons. There may be more conspirators that we don't know about. The human race itself is so small, so insignificant, so weak and puny, and nature is so vastly huge, the very notion that mankind could possibly have any impact on the climate of the earth is patently absurd........... If you have not heard somebody like Rush Limbaugh, or any other equally intelligent conservative, say something very much like this, you haven't been paying attention. The utter insanity of it either escapes them, or they deliberatly permit it to escape. As if only a handful of people are able to demonstrate and understand climate change, and the rest of us are blind followers. Fact is, any high school science teacher can demonstrate global warming. Where do all these people meet, when they conspire? Moving right along, to this business of the enormity of nature, and the insignificance of humanity, the key point is; we are not dealing with the enormity of nature here. We are dealing with a single tiny planet, a blue marble, suspensed in the enormity of nature, with a diameter of 7,926 miles. That aint enormous, that's limited, that's small. If we can set lakes and rivers on fire, create lakes and destroy rivers, tear down mountains, drill through mountains, burn down millions of acres of forest; then yes, we can have an impact on the environment of this one single tiny fragile little planet. The fact that the universe is huge and we are small is entirely irrelevant. We're quite big enough to make stuff happen on a small planet, and that's good enough to have an impact. And boy, are we ever having an impact. But not to worry. We can always bury our heads in our conservative, capitalistism worship, because any hint that we might need to change our lifestyle, and be less addicted to our material weatlh, simply won't do. We can just write off the rising oceans, the droughts and heat waves, and blame it on a liberal conspiratorial hoax, and take comfort in knowing that no matter what we do, good old earth will be just fine, because its so much bigger than we are.