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One Word on the Day’s Headlines

by Dana Blankenhorn
July 13, 2006
in Current Affairs, Personal, politics, security, terrorism, war
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Irrelevant.

The words meaningless, waste, and useless also come to mind.

What happens in the Middle East, today and tomorrow and in the future, means nothing to me, and should mean little to you. A nuclear exchange? The destruction of the oil fields?

Short-term annoyances, frankly, compared to the real threats.

Which are, that the Earth is dying and America is becoming increasingly irrelevant to the world, the 21st century’s Argentina.

This can be changed, but we first have to accept, all of us, that what happens in Israel, or Iraq, will not assure a future for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Our continued engagement in these places — the necessity of that engagement — is killing them.

Oil, coal, hydrocarbons, and our crack-like reliance on them for our economic comforts — these are the problem. Nothing happening in today’s news solves any of it.

So what are our politicians (and demi-politicians) talking about today?

  • Will John McCain run for President?
  • Will Joe Lieberman stay in the Senate?
  • Barack Obama and whether we respect religion enough.

I don’t care. Neither should you. Does it depend which band is on the stage, or what song they are playing, while the Titanic goes down with no lifeboats?

This world is the Titanic. This world is dieing.

Someone needs to change the subject to what matters. First party to do so deserves your support. Al Gore doesn’t count unless he gets off the lecture circuit and runs for something.

Everything else? Details.

Titanic

Tags: climate changeenvironmentJoe LiebermanMiddle EastterrorismU.S. politicsUS politicswar
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Comments 3

  1. Good Nonsense says:
    17 years ago

    It’s Friday Blogroll Time!!

    An Avedon link sent me to this, and since I had to read it and get disgusted, so do you.
    An Attaturk link sent me to this, and since I had to read it and get depressed, so do you.

  2. Kevin says:
    17 years ago

    Lighten up, the world is not dying, contrary to what doomsayers have been saying for 2,000 years. Global warming, is just the newest form of the alarmism. Sadly, it won’t be the last. Once mankind’s effect on world temperature has been proven to be minimal, someone will make up a new theory and tout it as being world-endingly important.
    If you are unwilling to do the science yourself, take a look at the alrmist’s track record. remember we were going to die in the 70’s from nuclear power? Remember 1975’s global cooling scare? Also, they are still chopping down trees in Brazil, why aren’t we dead yet? We killed all the Buffalo, wolves and most of the bears, mountain lions, and turkeys in America. Why is our fragile ecosystem still chugging along so well (and why the #$^%&%!@ didn’t it have a negative effect on weed growth in my garden)?
    Don’t waste another minute of your life worrying about global warming. Use the time you save to make the world better, or just have fun with it. You will be a happier man for doing so.

  3. Kevin says:
    17 years ago

    Lighten up, the world is not dying, contrary to what doomsayers have been saying for 2,000 years. Global warming, is just the newest form of the alarmism. Sadly, it won’t be the last. Once mankind’s effect on world temperature has been proven to be minimal, someone will make up a new theory and tout it as being world-endingly important.
    If you are unwilling to do the science yourself, take a look at the alrmist’s track record. remember we were going to die in the 70’s from nuclear power? Remember 1975’s global cooling scare? Also, they are still chopping down trees in Brazil, why aren’t we dead yet? We killed all the Buffalo, wolves and most of the bears, mountain lions, and turkeys in America. Why is our fragile ecosystem still chugging along so well (and why the #$^%&%!@ didn’t it have a negative effect on weed growth in my garden)?
    Don’t waste another minute of your life worrying about global warming. Use the time you save to make the world better, or just have fun with it. You will be a happier man for doing so.

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