Comments on: It’s Earth Day And I’m Tired Of

By: wyrdbyrd

wyrdbyrd — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:54:43 +0000

Ha ha you’re a joker.

By: Drill'em

Drill'em — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:36:37 +0000

Man that ANWR would look good with some oil rigs on it! I need one just for my SUV – - all mine.

By: wyrdbyrd

wyrdbyrd — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:18:20 +0000

Jan, It bothers me how the Republican party has become aligned with anti-environmentalism. How can this be? My dad, who used to give money to Greenpeace for heaven’s sake (and yes, he was a Republican then), is the one who sent me the inconvenience a few caribou mail. Unbelievable.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:05:58 +0000

My husband, who is a retired chemist, doesn’t believe in global warming. (I do) He’s a staunch Republican, while I’m a Democrat/Independent. I am amazed that such an intelligent man can be entrapped in such conservative ideas, which he considers to be facts.

By: charlotte

charlotte — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:40:58 +0000

I get those emails, too, and I laugh at them for their silliness. The worst thing, though, is that some people believe this cr*p. Whatever. I trust in the common sense of the majority …

By: wyrdbyrd

wyrdbyrd — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:39:17 +0000

YM, I heard about that on NPR. Scary. But yeah, let’s focus on real world stuff that we can, and must, do something about.

Kirsten, Yeah, me too. Why send around something that is so clearly politically motivated and so clearly wrong? Just because somebody says it (even an apparently smart somebody) doesn’t mean it’s true! We can always find somebody to be for or against something—we have to look at the facts. At this point, the facts are pretty clear on climate change.

And the ANWR! Some people want to destroy this for what? So we can put off making the changes we’re going to have to make anyway?

Humph. You can see these things rankle.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:20:18 +0000

Heh, yeah, I get those emails too, and am constantly amazed at how some of my smartest friends are also the ones who don’t stop and think about the various bits of crap they forward.

By: yogamum

yogamum — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:25:43 +0000

Today I got an email about how some scientists are going to create mini-black holes in an accelerator thingie, and it could destroy the whole earth!! In an instant!!!

My physicist friend assured me that it is not possible, and therefore I am going to go back to worrying about the real stuff, like climate change.