Believing

EVENTUALLY, AND IN FACT rather soon, everybody in the world is going to believe in climate change. It will be impossible not to. When the great grand children of the baby boomers are seeing hurricanes and one hundred degree days on a regular basis, they'll quite naturally ash whether its always "been like this". History moves from right to left, from traditions to change and innovation, towards progress, although, as Martin Luther King and others have often point out,; it sometimes takes a long time, the arc of progress seems to generally bend slowly. there will come a time when people will laugh at the very thought that there was ever a time when people refused to believe in climate change; they will be the flat Earthers of their day. An objective analysis indicates that all told, the human condition is far better now than it has ever been, especially in terms of life expectancy, nutrition, violence and war, and so forth. Considering how much war there is in the world today, it is particularly hard to believe that humanity has actually reduced warfare, but, alas, its true. Violent as we may seem now, we have been mic more so, in our dark and bloody past. even the most sacred traditions evolve over time; change is constant, and progress seems to be the normal process of human history, for we are creatures who learn from our mistakes. Science, for instance. Science is the closest thing I have to a religion, for good reason. Science produces results, results which are tangible, right in front of our faces. Cars, planes, computers, phones, modern medical miracles - all of it, a million blessings, come to us from science. Whatever religion give us could be given more easily and effectively through science, and someday soon the human species will come to believe that. The fight, the grand project to save the ecosystem from drastic climate change will clearly demonstrate the superiority of science. Let us replace mindless worship of some imaginary anthropomorphic deity with sublime reverence of nature, as we perceive it, as revealed through science, whatever little that may yet be.