Global Warming is real. Let's start off with that. Somehow it's become fashionable in this country and elsewhere around the globe to reject scientific investigation of natural phenomena as broadly unreliable if not threatening to personal, religious truths. As Sarah Vowell points out in her book The Wordy Shipmates, evangelical Christians as a matter of faith do not rely on science, or even scripture per se, but rather on personal revelation as their source of knowledge. They know Jesus Christ is alive and well because they feel his presence, hear his voice, etc. Remember Dubya's whole "gut-feeling" approach to leadership? Yeah, it's related to that. Then again, I shouldn't blame evangelicals for this purposeful ignorance. The reality of things is more complicated-- there are evangelicals who believe Global Warming is real and feel we have a duty to do something about it as custodians of the Earth, and there are certainly plenty of non-evangelicals who are self-described "skeptics." Anyway, I don't mean to paint too broadly here.
The information is out there. Loads of it. It's easy to say "Al Gore's just trying to sell books," or some other attempt to make proponents of empirical science seem self-interested. But you know what, yes, we are self-interested. We want fresh water available for future generations to drink. We want small, island nations like the Maldives and Kiribati to still... well, have islands and generally, you know, exist.
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