Global Warning

Peter Tatchell has an article in the Guardian‘s Comment is Free section on people’s apathy towards the threat of Global Warming. Judging by the tone of most of the comments on his article, it would appear that there are many people in denial as well. I think Norm puts his finger on the probable cause of the apathy – people just can’t get worked up about something that will happen years in the future. As he says, "compassion doesn’t work terribly well over great distances". And those distances can be measured in either space or time – the observation will still hold true.

 

It seems to me that the only thing that might avert the disaster is to have another one – an outbreak of a human form of avian flu that decimates the world population. That might throw a sufficiently big spanner into the works and stop our spiralling contributions to global warming in its tracks…