Believing Whatever, And Running Like Hell To Escape The Human Race

CLIMATOLOGISTS, METEOROLOGISTS, physicists, chemists, biologists, and people who teach these subjects at the high school and junior high school level universally agree that human made climate change is occurring. They also agree that it is transpiring each and every day of the week, except perhaps Sundays, when the process perhaps takes a day off. It takes a day off on Sundays, perhaps, to pay respect to Christian conservatives, and to rest, like their deity once allegedly did. This professed deity has many votaries who believe that because a large, invisible, all powerful, and highly intelligent entity watches over us from the sky, either there is no such thing as man made climate change, or that if by some remote chance there is, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because everyone who believes that a very influential being, who is very much like a human being, abides in the sky, will at length be raptured into heaven, whatever in hell that specifically entails. Once settled in there, they insist, conservative Christians will enjoy eternal bliss, and will somehow escape hellish, monotonous boredom. People who believe that the big invisible primate-like role model in the sky told humanity everything it needs to know by authoring a book three thousand years ago, and another book eighteen hundred years ago, in which he explains that not only is the world flat, but that torturing a particularly intelligent person to death excuses everyone's bad behavior, do not, as a general rule, believe that injecting a billion tons of carbon into the earth's atmosphere has the slightest impact on the weather. Upon even the most superficial reflection, it is not difficult to understand why people believe what they believe. Recently I told a stock broker and his sixth grade daughter the following true story: a ten year old student wrote a letter to Einstein complaining that she was having trouble doing her math homework. Einstein graciously wrote back, and told her not to worry about her difficulties with mathematics, because his difficulties with it were far greater than hers. Emily (the daughter) said she didn't understand the story, and her father said the same thing. Until that moment, I had been considering entrusting some or all of my modest stock funds into his management. Instead I told them not to worry about their inability to understand such a complicated anecdote, because my understanding of it was far greater than theirs. These, alarmingly, are perfectly intelligent people, and at the time I told them this charming and amusing little tale, neither of them was staring at a smart phone, sending nor receiving text messages, nor staring blankly at a flat screen high definition television screen on which pranced an image of Kim Kardashian. My best advice is: make sure that when you speak to a contemporary American student you do so with sufficient vocal volume to be heard, that you keep your comments brief, and that you select your stock broker very carefully. Also, it might be a good idea to hang with people who teach high school chemistry and biology, rather than with people who believe that God speaks to us in ancient books, tortured his son to death on a wooden cross, and sits in judgment over creatures of his own creation. But If you happen to notice one of your scientifically educated friends wearing a necklace from which dangles a small cross, you might wish to consider surrendering to your surreal fate, running like hell, and praying fervently that you are merely having a very bad dream, while sleeping peacefully........THE PRECEDING ESSAY IS, UNBELIEVABLY, NOT THE MOST UNUSUAL ONE PUBLISHED ON THIS SITE.