I enjoy sarcastic and cynical humor. I often engage in writing it. However, this post is not sarcasm. Posted on 04/06/2011 5:46:45 PM PDT by wewillnotcomply
I enjoy sarcastic and cynical humor. I often engage in writing it. However, this post is not sarcasm.
We should pity David Suzuki. In a recent interview, he made a comment that is worth noting:
TckTckTck: Like so many of us, you express huge frustrations that we are not where we need to be to save this planet from dangerous climate change. Yet you have this indomitable spirit and refuse to get lost in cynicism or despair.Despair? Huddling at night and weeping?Dr. David Suzuki: I do despair. My wife and I huddle at night and weep for our helplessness. We are losing big-time and I’m enough of a scientist to see we are heading right down the tube. Judging by the past twenty years, we are going backward.
I see no reason to believe that Suzuki is lying. This means that he really does despair for our planet, literally weeping with his wife at night. Poor guy.
I personally see no scientific basis for such intense concern for the planet's future. If we didn't have thermometers I doubt anyone would have noticed the .8c increase over the past century. What is this intense fear based on? I'm really unsure. Could Suzuki be so foolish as to base his despair on computer modeling?
Climate skeptics seem to be far more optimistic about our planet's future than environmentalists. I can't speak for all of them. For me, it's not just a scientific argument (or a complete lack of evidence for drastic claims), it is also an economic argument. An increase in global prosperity allows nations to afford economic conservation (a luxury good), and as long as governments don't hinder the economy too much, the world will continue to become richer. Europe and the United States are protecting their environments far more than in the past, not less.
Suzuki is 75 years old. He is absolutely certain to not see any significant impacts of climate change. I'm sure that he weeps for his descendants, and for the planet in general. As a member of the younger generation (and a parent as well), I do appreciate his candor and genuine concern for the world which I, and my children, are to live in. Thanks Dave.
But here's my message to you. You've overestimated the dangers which lie before us, and you've underestimated our capabilities. Please, don't assume you are one of the enlightened few that could have saved me and my generation if only your peers would have listened. You've been at this fight for over 20 years and haven't yet garnered support for any significant action. You can choose to view this as a failure, and weep bitterly at night for the lost window of opportunity which could have saved humanity. Or, you can assume there is a valid reason why your ideas didn't gain traction, and have faith that future generations can take care of themselves.
Dave, go to bed, hug your wife, and stop crying. We're fine. Really.
Never try to talk a drama queen out of it. It’s what they live for.
Nope. No pity here. Hope it drives him over the cliff. Litterally.
Well, there may be some scientific basis for his intense concern, but it is not climate science that one should look to, but psychiatry.
“Dr. David Suzuki: I do despair. My wife and I huddle at night and weep for our helplessness”
Lack of sunshine, too much overcast weather, Dave. Move to Florida, move to Sun City, get a tan, you’ll be better soon.
True indeed. Dr. Dave needs to spend some time on an intensive study of the ICE Age period. Now that was climate change with very long teeth.
I remember a few years ago, there was an article in the paper about David Suzuki being at a funeral of a fellow evolutionist.... Suzuki recited something that was essentially ‘the evolutionist’s prayer’. The overriding conclusion you came to as you read this was that the man was utterly without any hope.
Classic Messiah Complex.
I have seen it many time in business, politics and science when a relatively bright individual convinces himself that he knows it all and therefore everyone else is not only wrong, but evil. See the grandfather of this global warming crap, James Hansen. Thirty years ago he was ready to butcher his detractors to save the world from the next ice age. Now he would be willing to butcher anyone who argues against his failed computer models calling for global warming.
They are both people who simply can never admit they are wrong. Their egos won't allow it.
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Mentallllll.................
Then you're an idiot.
"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
David Takayoshi Suzuki CC OBC (born March 24, 1936), is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist.
He also served as a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 1982-1987.
February 2008, he urged McGill University students to speak out against politicians who fail to act on climate change, stating “What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there’s a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they’re doing is a criminal act.”
The David Suzuki Foundation website has a clear statement of this:
The debate is over about whether or not climate change is real. Irrefutable evidence from around the world - including extreme weather events, record temperatures, retreating glaciers, and rising sea levels - all point to the fact climate change is happening now and at rates much faster than previously thought.
The David Suzuki Foundation has implemented a carbon neutral program in its offices. The Foundation states that this is part of its “ongoing commitment to sustainability
] Suzuki himself laments that in traveling constantly to spread his message of climate responsibility, he’s “over his [carbon] limit by hundreds of tonnes.”
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