No One Gives A Shit About That Climate Change Thing That's Going to Kill Us All

[Solid Snake]

So the entirety of Greenland's ice is melting away in an abnormally warm summer. An ice chunk twice the size of Manhattan has broken off.

There's compelling evidence that the power outages impacting half of India's population right now are at least in part due to the effects of climate change. In America, climate change has contributed to crippling droughts that likely will cost us over $450 million in damages from the wildfires in Colorado alone, as the drought made that situation far worse than it may have been otherwise.

Worse still, the media is completely failing in its duty to inform the public of how and why these disasters are happening. Despite efforts from scientists to show the correlation in detail, the presumably 'left-wing' media has steadfastly stonewalled reporting the news. When Bill Nye showed up to express disappointment in the media for its failure to confront President Obama or Mitt Romney on the issues, CNN -- not Fox News, CNN -- responded by derisively labeling him a 'kook' and giving excuses for its audience to disbelieve him.

It should be newsworthy that a Koch-funded scientist who once denied global warming even existed has now acknowledged its existence, but of course not. Let's just bury that headline and pretend it never happened.

As noted in this article:

In a recent speech on the Senate floor, Senator John Kerry characterized the political discourse in the United States as a “conspiracy of silence … a story of disgraceful denial, back-pedaling, and delay that has brought us perilously close to a climate change catastrophe.” This silence means that we can expect further delays in addressing climate change, delays that we cannot afford.

Of course, since only 74% of Democrats and less than half of Republicans in America even believe that climate change is a thing, because Flat Earth Societies are totally cool places to hang out and whatnot.

Still, I think the best recent development is George Will's accusation that climate change is totally a hoax and what's really going on right now is just "Summer." Uh-huh.

Or perhaps we should listen to the stellar advice of America's greatest lawyer and sterling citizen, Ann Coulter:

As Steven Guilbeault of Greenpeace explained, “global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.” No set of facts can disprove the environmentalists’ secular religion. In 2004, former vice president Al Gore gave a speech on global warming in New York City on the coldest day of the year. Warm trends prove global warming. Cold trends also prove global warming. This is the philosophy of a madman.

When shit finally hits the fan, I sincerely hope Coulter is alive to witness it, and is among the first to suffer the consequences.

So, this is how the world is going to end: We're going to refuse to give a damn about the catastrophic consequences of our actions, then enjoy watching the ecosystem collapse around us, as documented in these documents and conceded by the EPA.

Right now, we're heading for the worst-case scenario forecast in those sets of predictions. The one piece of good news for atheists: In proving humanity to be terrible stewards of the planet, we will refute the central contention of Genesis, namely that humanity can handle said responsibilities. I'm not sure that will really matter, though, because we will all be dead; not just us, but our descendants, and their descendants, and the majority, if the not the entirety, of our species, as well as nearly every other species on this planet, with the possible exceptions of the likes of cockroaches.

And despite all of this, we care less now than we did mere years ago.
Good job reporting what's important, media!

I will probably eventually edit this post for the sake of my impending legal career, but for now I'll let this stand: If things don't seriously change for the better anytime soon, I will genuinely support, in spirit if not in reality, the efforts of any environmental group to engage in 'illegal' acts of civil disobedience to boost awareness among the public by any means necessary. The continued survival of humanity as a species is far too important to allow the powers that be to continue to get away with this.