Denying, Instead of Changing

HOW MANY WAYS CAN WE SAY "DENIAL"? How many glaringly obvious facts can we deny, in other words? We start, perhaps, with global warming, aka "climate change". You simply cannot pump half a billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere, and leave it there, without some kind of effect on the weather. Period. But boy, do we ever do a good job of pretending that we can. At least some of us do. Humans are too small to impact nature, say the global warming deniers. Nothing is wrong with the environment, they say. Pure fantasy. Pure denial of reality. Rather remindful of the good folks who to this very day deny evolution by natural selection as a fact, a truth. The numbers here are amazing. The persistence of religious dogma is strong friction to change and acceptance of reality. Ditto conservatism in general, with its resistance to change. Next thing you know, they'll tell us that there's nothing wrong with the American economy, and its distribution of income and wealth. Evolution by natural selection, and human selection, is all around us, and always has been. We should all celebrate it, and our belated awareness of it, thanks to Charles Darwin, rather than quibble over it. Sometimes people simply find out how something works; Darwin did a bang up job on this one. Isn't that something to celebrate, to embrace, rather than to reject simply becuase it conflicts with our previously held, less valid beliefs? We must always be ready, able, and willing to change, and to accept change. This is the crucial shortcoming of all religion; failure to embrace change and personal paradigm growth. So, let's all take the plunge, and hop on that global warming evolution bandwagon, and while we're at it, let's stop pretending that anybody other than we normal human beings write books or alter the climate.