Hot and Dangerous, but No Movement on the Political Front
Closer to home, global warming is affecting everything from wildfires to wine, and the death toll from intensified weather events is rising along with the sea level.
What are our fearless leaders doing to solve this global crisis? Bickering. The leaders at the G8 Summit have failed to reach a consensus on the issue. I wonder who the problem children are? It’s not a stretch to say that the US is likely difficult to work with on the issue. And the typical American is more worried about immigration and terrorism (although the energy crisis is becoming an issue and is at least tied to our climate crisis).
But think of this: If the administration had devoted the same amount of resources to responding to global warming after Katrina as it did “fighting terrorism” after September 11, 2001 then we would be far better off. Just compare fatalities vs. spending in response.
Fatalities:
It might be easy to say that Katrina is not directly related to global warming, but I’ll counter that by saying that Iraq is not directly related to September 11!
It is indeed a sad state of affairs that we live in. What happens next? If the glass is half empty, we all die from heat or nuclear holocaust. If the glass is half full, we do something to save the planet now before it’s too late. I don’t know about you, but I’m a glass-half-full kind of gal.
Christian said,
July 19, 2006 @ 12:40 pm
Defense spending isn’t very good for the planet either. I wonder how much wars are contributing to climate change? All the extra production, transportation, etc?
monkey said,
July 19, 2006 @ 1:07 pm
Good point! According to this article, military vehicles use so much fuel that it is expressed in GPM - gallons per mile - rather than MPG!