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As a low islander, global warming denialists piss me off
13 years ago
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I was raised in the Marshall Islands. Low-lying coral islands. And rapidly within the past few generations of a 3000 year old culture, living memory has seen the seas rise, the corals bleach from hotter waters (when they did not bleach before), and a modern crisis unfold of land being permanently claimed by the ocean. The same tragedy is unfolding in Kiribati, and in Tuvalu, and in the Maldives, and in many a river delta. The Maldives is even investing more in tourism lately to raise money for a plan to evacuate its population. Kiribati has also announced it will enact a plan to evaculate its citizens.
And a bunch of highly dogmatic Americans have the audacity to say it's not happening? Depraved bullshitters, the lot of them. It's insulting enough that they deny it at all, but there's an entire cottage industry now of coming up with new and different conspiracy theories and unsupportable talking points that appeal to an insidious willful ignorance I cannot begin to comprehend. What are they so afraid of? Why is it so painfully important that global warming somehow not be real? The islanders cannot afford the luxury of denial when the reality threatens their entire way of life.
So, if anyone denies global warming - the existential threat to my beloved Marshall Islands - I refer them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_warming/FAQ
EDIT: If you try to zealously deny global warming or derisively call me names, I will remove your comments. Now...keep this in perspective: Global warming is accepted as fact by the vast majority of the accredited scientific communities of every country on earth, with a 90% scientific confidence that our current global warming is man-made. Global warming denialism exists mainly in the United States, and is a fringe movement outside of the U.S. Even most anti-environmentalists in other countries aren't stupid enough to deny it's real - they just argue over what to do (or not do) about it. For most of the rest of the us in the world, acceptance of the fact of global warming is not a major political issue.
And a bunch of highly dogmatic Americans have the audacity to say it's not happening? Depraved bullshitters, the lot of them. It's insulting enough that they deny it at all, but there's an entire cottage industry now of coming up with new and different conspiracy theories and unsupportable talking points that appeal to an insidious willful ignorance I cannot begin to comprehend. What are they so afraid of? Why is it so painfully important that global warming somehow not be real? The islanders cannot afford the luxury of denial when the reality threatens their entire way of life.
So, if anyone denies global warming - the existential threat to my beloved Marshall Islands - I refer them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_warming/FAQ
EDIT: If you try to zealously deny global warming or derisively call me names, I will remove your comments. Now...keep this in perspective: Global warming is accepted as fact by the vast majority of the accredited scientific communities of every country on earth, with a 90% scientific confidence that our current global warming is man-made. Global warming denialism exists mainly in the United States, and is a fringe movement outside of the U.S. Even most anti-environmentalists in other countries aren't stupid enough to deny it's real - they just argue over what to do (or not do) about it. For most of the rest of the us in the world, acceptance of the fact of global warming is not a major political issue.
To say we aren't 'gods' of our planet is extremely crude. Many times it takes a direct hit for people to realize that. We've already felt it in my lifetime up here in northern Michigan... we have a lot of our own catastrophes to sort out no one gives two shits about which is purely correlated with how we interacted with our own environment.
Not to mention you, right now, essentially telling someone 'sucks to be you' while they're watching their home essentially be slowly destroyed and eventually uninhabitable in near future is extremely insensitive WHILE trying to debate it to -them-. Seriously, dude? Harsh.
i was mostly pointing out that a lot of scientific evidance of any arguing side gets brushed aside on a biased study. which is what got erased that
just stating.
also, to be fair:
not ALL americans are dogmatic and deny it happening. fact is it is happening, but not at the speed a lot of the claims try to exagerate. as Dol had mentioned. thinking of it as "just americans" is rather biased though is my main point. there are many other cultures that wuold say same or different. so perhaps "people" instead of "americans" would suit the wording best. (just saying this opinion because it makes you come off as hateful, biased, etc. <whether you are or not doesn't matter>, just stating it can be taken that way ^^)
*scared puppy face*
Imagine waking up in a world without wolfs? :(
Poor dragons, we hardly knew ye.
I was just mentioning to my bro we've had several unusually powerful storms in the US in one winter and people still think things are 100% normal?
I guess that's why they call it a SNAFU.