When the world is in a state of emergency, Americans seem to think that the issue is not so much what to do about the emergency, but whether there is an emergency at all. Over on greenoptions.com, a report has been posted that claiming that only 12% of Americans are very worried about climate change. Of the 57% that actually believe man-made global warming is a real thing, 38% were only somewhat worried. Compare that with 3 years ago when 71% of people polled thought global warming was real. I think this really shows that the denialists are doing their job and those of us who recognize the threats and accept the facts need to do more about this.
This gets to be very frustrating. Here we are, facing the greatest potential threat of mass upheaval. Here we are, presently experiencing Earth's 6th mass extinction event of biological creatures. The facts tell us we are the cause of these problems, but our population chooses to ignore them and even disbelieve them. The facts also tell us that we can do something about it. We may be causing the problem, but we can correct our behaviors and reverse the problem. But, at present, barely a tenth of our citizenry thinks climate change is something to be very concerned about (these are the ones who want to do what it takes to solve the issues).
Then we get stories reported that denialists are not only controlling the debate, but hijacking the facts. The State of Texas apparently doesn't want the facts to get out about climate change and so, when a scientist files a report that chronicles and lists the evidences that Galveston Bay has been affected by climate change, their environmental agency decides to censor the report and its documentation on global warming. Not only do the denialists want to continue to disbelieve in man-made climate change, but they want to alter/censor any scientific documentation that will be made available to the public and the science community at large. My question is, how do we bring this fight back to reality? For those of us who believe, and for those us who are convinced and "very worried", I believe the answer is to make our message more public and pressure the mainstream media to stop providing equal (or in some cases, more than equal) time to those who deny global warming.
This information is very unsettling and upsetting. Especially when a majority of Europe's citizens view climate change as the world's number two priority. Why is the gap of the Atlantic a microcosm of the gap between Europe's and America's view of global climate change? America is a great country and as I have said before, I believe America can still lead the way in the brainstorming and implementation of solutions to climate change. However, America needs to wake up to reality and those of us "warmists" (as the Republicans like to call us) need to retake the debate. We are being pushed to the sidelines and we need get back into the middle of the court. Let's stand together and fight the lies with mountains of truth.
This gets to be very frustrating. Here we are, facing the greatest potential threat of mass upheaval. Here we are, presently experiencing Earth's 6th mass extinction event of biological creatures. The facts tell us we are the cause of these problems, but our population chooses to ignore them and even disbelieve them. The facts also tell us that we can do something about it. We may be causing the problem, but we can correct our behaviors and reverse the problem. But, at present, barely a tenth of our citizenry thinks climate change is something to be very concerned about (these are the ones who want to do what it takes to solve the issues).
Then we get stories reported that denialists are not only controlling the debate, but hijacking the facts. The State of Texas apparently doesn't want the facts to get out about climate change and so, when a scientist files a report that chronicles and lists the evidences that Galveston Bay has been affected by climate change, their environmental agency decides to censor the report and its documentation on global warming. Not only do the denialists want to continue to disbelieve in man-made climate change, but they want to alter/censor any scientific documentation that will be made available to the public and the science community at large. My question is, how do we bring this fight back to reality? For those of us who believe, and for those us who are convinced and "very worried", I believe the answer is to make our message more public and pressure the mainstream media to stop providing equal (or in some cases, more than equal) time to those who deny global warming.
This information is very unsettling and upsetting. Especially when a majority of Europe's citizens view climate change as the world's number two priority. Why is the gap of the Atlantic a microcosm of the gap between Europe's and America's view of global climate change? America is a great country and as I have said before, I believe America can still lead the way in the brainstorming and implementation of solutions to climate change. However, America needs to wake up to reality and those of us "warmists" (as the Republicans like to call us) need to retake the debate. We are being pushed to the sidelines and we need get back into the middle of the court. Let's stand together and fight the lies with mountains of truth.
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