Filed under: climate change, epa, global climate change, observation | Tags: environment, epa, ignorant elected officials, observation, outdated attitudes
I read this story from the Salt Lake Tribune this morning regarding the most recent EPA report on the declining state of the environment and climate change. I find the response from the quoted representative from southern Utah (Mike Noel, R-Kanab) to be especially sycophantic, hopelessly benighted, flagrantly nescient, and certainly callow.
It is frustrating as hell that STILL – people, especially elected officials, think global climate change is some kind of faith-based doctrine that we get to CHOOSE to believe in. Also, this guy is on the record as indicating that because temperatures are only predicted to rise “a few degrees” in his lifetime, doesn’t mean he’s prepared to “worship at the altar of carbon dioxide chastity,” he “hasn’t joined the church of global warming,” and he is “definitely not going to be jumping on the bandwagon of global warming.” Nice.
Oh, and he hadn’t read the new EPA report when he commented for the Trib story yet claims to doubt the data “is there to support the conclusions of the report” (which he hasn’t read).
People: it’s called science, which means there’s proof. It’s attitudes like this among elected officials that make the enormity of what we’ve got to do to heal this planet seem so hopeless.
Filed under: gas prices, lowest gas prices, observation | Tags: gas prices, lowest gas prices, public transportation
This is great news currently happening in my area: read full story here.
Not only are fewer cars on the road and public trans ridership numbers up by 20% which is great news for the environment, but this also means fewer rage-filled, inconsiderate, law-breakin’ Utah drivers running red lights, rubbernecking at accidents, causing more accidents, shooting at other drivers from their cars, etc. Ha ha.
Seriously, though, it just goes to show that when people are hit where it hurts most (which in this country means the pocketbook) there is no option but to downscale our opulent, wasteful lifestyles regardless of where on the political spectrum people believe these changes place them… Just sayin’.
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