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A link from JeremyGilby.com got me thinking today about the climate and about zealousy.
The link went to a YouTube video called "The Great Global Warming Scandal."
Many of you know that I think that whenever zealousy is involved any argument or position is jeapordized, regardless of the kernels of truth on which the initial position was built. "The Great Global Warming Scandal" is a perfect example of the swing of the proverbial pendulum from the Earth-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket Environmentalist perspective to the more Bush-ian hey-how-could-humans-effect-anything-on-such-a-global-scale.
Well, isn't the truth somewhere in the middle? Humans have had very real effects on the world as we know it. We have single-handedly polluted rivers beyone being potable, sent species to extinction, and created habitats that are so chemically toxic that generations of humans and other creatures that have come in contact with these regions will forever be tarnished.
But a theme of "The Great Global Warming Scandal" fits very much in line with my thinking, and that of a friend of mine who put it better than I ever could. "The world is going to go on, with or without us."
So where should this climate crisis fall on our collective radar screens? (Sorry for mixing so many metaphors in this.) Robert Goodwin on his blog aptly refers to Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace. He believes "environmental reform must be weighed against its effect on economies, and is a moderate global warming skeptic."
Now a number of other very interesting socio-political views were raised by this film and commented upon in these blogs -- things that I can't adequately address until I chew on them a while longer.
Check out the blogs. Check out the video. Check back here, I'll have something to say about the views.
But to summarize: hardline, zealous positions: bad; moderate balance of two sides to an issue: good.
RJ Lavallee is a freelance writer in Norther California.
