Is it any wonder people (and when I say "people," I mean me) bury their heads? The planet is scary, the experts who talk about it are scary, and we are helpless.
OK, well, got to get back to writing silly headlines.
PS: We’re all going to die 4
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Posted 12:35 PM on 9 Mar 2005
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The latest science news, nicely coinciding with the belching of Mount St. Helens: some time, not sure when, an extra-giganto-huge volcano is going to erupt and kill a buncha people. Might be in Yellowstone, which is 40,000 years overdue for a super explosion and has inspired a BBC docudrama (check out the still of a pick-up truck fleeing the scene). Or might be somewhere else around the world. Might be tomorrow. Or might be thousands of years from now. But whenever it happens, it's going to be ugly. And, scientists say, there ain't nothin' we can do about it.
Katharine Wroth is a senior editor at Grist.
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hardisun Posted 8:26 am
09 Mar 2005
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jdhlax Posted 8:48 am
09 Mar 2005
Instead of such a negative attitude, experience and enjoy as much as possible. Our experiences are all added to the universal consciousness, or god, or whatever you want to call it. :)
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Katharine Wroth Posted 9:47 am
09 Mar 2005
Actually, I meant that comment as a critique (albeit an indirect, subtle one) of how the environmental movement gets its messages out. We tell people huge, scary things, and then wonder why they don't feel inspired and motivated.
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hardisun Posted 3:20 am
10 Mar 2005
Consider today's news where Bush came out yet again in favor of re-introducing the Anwar oil development bill (evidently the neocons think it will work this time; it really feels like we've been stuck in a 3-card monte game for a few years). Yes, I will contribute and email and phone to try to prevent this, but deep down, I might as well be using my voice to yell "STOP" to a super eruption.
Before the internet, didn't we suceed more by doing rather than by carping? United we stand if we are standing united, and on the internet we're just a bunch of anonymous dogs howling at the moon. It's time to show our conviction and strength of numbers in a environmental protest march on Washington.
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