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Alright, global warming. Now, I don't think that global warming in itself is bullshit. I think that in all probability we are fucking up the climate by production of fossil fuels etc etc. No, what's stupid about global warming is a) The arguments about it have all been the same for the last how many years? And people are only paying attention to it now.. In addition to this, just now I saw some program on the Discovery Channel (Foxtel is awesome) which had a scientist spouting off on how to fix global warming. His answer: More sustainable energy sources, less people, and a bunch of other stuff that I didn't hear because I was too busy being incredulous. The first argument I've already heard a million times in relation to climate change/global warming. But I would love to hear how we're supposed to fix the problem by causing there to be less people. How would he like us to do it? Maybe we could kill off everyone about the age of 60. Maybe we could just do it by ballot or something, everyone who gets a prime number gets executed, no questions asked and no exceptions. Or combine the above two and kill off everyone who has a prime number for their age, no exceptions (I'm looking at you, two and three-year-olds. It's for a better future damnit) . Maybe we could just go into some third world country and kill off the population there, cos no one really cares about them anyway, right? Maybe we could only allow certain people to have kids, or impose a one child policy on all of Earth, although then it would still take about 50 years before we would see any effect, by which time the population pressure would no doubt have caused the Earth to become uninhabitable, cos we need there to be less people *now* damnit. Or heck, maybe we should just let all the serial killers out of jail and let them do the job for us, although serial killers are notoriously unstable and probably wouldn't be able to keep up with the birthrate, let alone get around to serious depopulating. Feel free to come up with your own suggestions for how to save the planet by causing there to be less people on it*. Regardless, it's one of the stupidest plans I've heard in a while. Kind of like saying that the solution is for everyone to willingly become Amish and live simple lives and be kind to eachother and stuff like that.
Oh yeh, you know what's stupider than trying to fix global warming by causing there to be less people? Blocking out the sun. And besides, the Simpsons got there first, and showed how only evil people want to do that.
*By the way, as a longterm solution to many of the world's problems I would seriously advocate better population control. I'm just panning it now because as a fix for global warming it seems too longterm and infinitely inferior to all the other shorter term solutions like finding more sustainable sources of energy and then actually putting them into use rather than commissioning 10 year studies into how much they'll cost and whether they'll really help etc etc.
Now how am I stupid you ask? Well, sit back and I'll tell you a tale..
Today I went out with a friend and her friend. We met up early, which meant I basically rushed to get there from work, and the weather was atrocious, the typical Sydney overcast humid heat that I hate with a passion. So anyway, by the time we finished our shopping trip (yet another reason for my frame of mind. Shopping ranks right up there with visiting the dentist as one of my favourite pastimes. But since I need to buy things to wear occasionally I try to put up with it with good grace) I was hot and bothered and tired. This combination led to my sitting in the university library, too tired and unwilling to face the heat to leave, but also rather hungry. After discussing the situation over IM for about half an hour, I decided that since I wasn't in the mood for any of the known and available foods in Randwick I would try somewhere new. This led to my traipsing around Randwick, and this was where the stupidity really came in: I am socially anxious. It's a problem, but one that I try not to act on very often. As in when I catch myself feeling anxious over something trivial and stupid I usually tell myself to get over it and then go do that thing just to spite myself**. Anyway, I must have considered every single possible food place in Randwick at some point or other. But every time I approached some kind of eating establishment that had a sit-down area (especially when the sit-down area was empty or mostly so) the idea of actually going in and approaching the person behind the counter would prove too much for me to bear and I would pass the place after a single timid glance inside. All in all, from the moment I decided I was too hungry to go home to eat, to when I finally walked into the chicken shop (which I'd been to numerous times before, incidentally), it must have taken me at least an hour. All while headachey and starving. And all because I couldn't override my social anxiety long enough to go inside and order some food.
** You mean you don't have these spirited arguments with your neuroses? How boring..
Oh yeh, you know what's stupider than trying to fix global warming by causing there to be less people? Blocking out the sun. And besides, the Simpsons got there first, and showed how only evil people want to do that.
*By the way, as a longterm solution to many of the world's problems I would seriously advocate better population control. I'm just panning it now because as a fix for global warming it seems too longterm and infinitely inferior to all the other shorter term solutions like finding more sustainable sources of energy and then actually putting them into use rather than commissioning 10 year studies into how much they'll cost and whether they'll really help etc etc.
Now how am I stupid you ask? Well, sit back and I'll tell you a tale..
Today I went out with a friend and her friend. We met up early, which meant I basically rushed to get there from work, and the weather was atrocious, the typical Sydney overcast humid heat that I hate with a passion. So anyway, by the time we finished our shopping trip (yet another reason for my frame of mind. Shopping ranks right up there with visiting the dentist as one of my favourite pastimes. But since I need to buy things to wear occasionally I try to put up with it with good grace) I was hot and bothered and tired. This combination led to my sitting in the university library, too tired and unwilling to face the heat to leave, but also rather hungry. After discussing the situation over IM for about half an hour, I decided that since I wasn't in the mood for any of the known and available foods in Randwick I would try somewhere new. This led to my traipsing around Randwick, and this was where the stupidity really came in: I am socially anxious. It's a problem, but one that I try not to act on very often. As in when I catch myself feeling anxious over something trivial and stupid I usually tell myself to get over it and then go do that thing just to spite myself**. Anyway, I must have considered every single possible food place in Randwick at some point or other. But every time I approached some kind of eating establishment that had a sit-down area (especially when the sit-down area was empty or mostly so) the idea of actually going in and approaching the person behind the counter would prove too much for me to bear and I would pass the place after a single timid glance inside. All in all, from the moment I decided I was too hungry to go home to eat, to when I finally walked into the chicken shop (which I'd been to numerous times before, incidentally), it must have taken me at least an hour. All while headachey and starving. And all because I couldn't override my social anxiety long enough to go inside and order some food.
** You mean you don't have these spirited arguments with your neuroses? How boring..
