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Let’s Call It What It Is: Climate Doom
Why be wishy-washy?
I‘m looking forward the news tomorrow. I’m sure it will be full of great stories about the big game. Why they won, what Taylor Swift said, didn’t say, did and didn’t do. Something to talk about with the guys.
You know, the important stuff. The stuff you can have long, meaningful conversations with other people about. The stuff that matters.
Do you know that other people — very boring people, nobody we know — have conversations about pollution, CO2, fossil fuels, and what should have happened but hasn’t happened with global climate agreements? Do you care? None of that can even begin to match the thrills of a football game, even one that was months before the Super Bowl.
Some of those boring people say we are killing ourselves. They say that our poisons, our carbon footprint, our unimaginable waste will destroy us. Some think it will be by disease, by environmental destruction, cataclysm, or heat.
Hey, Honey, bump the thermostat a notch? It’s cooler than I thought it would be.
Depressing stuff, climate change. Did you see that pass or were you stuffing your face with chicken wings? Wasn’t that pass something? And what about Taylor, huh?
Yeah, they say we are destroying our food supply. Plenty of food right here in this house, right?
I mean sure, what can we do anyway? Say all those crazy eggheads are right, what can we do? Nothing. If it is real, and I did say if, what the hell could we do? Nothing.
Honey, are you going to the kitchen? Snag me a brewskie, wouldja?
Here’s the thing. They say global warming, right? But then they say Europe could be freezing! Can’t have both, can you? Effing eggheads, right?
Who you gonna vote for? They say the GOP might stop all this climate nonsense. I heard the Dems want to take away our gas powered cars. Over my dead body! Sure,EV’s, windmills, solar, that’s all great, but we aren’t ready for it. Right now, we need fossil fuels, am I right? We gotta be realistic. Dems got their heads in the clouds. I mean Musk is brilliant and funny as hell, but we can’t stop drilling yet!
