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A Call to End the Conspiracy of Silence on Climate Change

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Sophia778/01/2012 2:29:00 pm PDT

Back to the topic of the OP: I saw one of those polls on Yahoo the other day, where you push a button (yes/no) in response to a question. In this case the question was, “Do you believe global warming is a problem,” yes or no.

Of course I pushed yes and clicked to view the results. When I looked at them, 51% of people said yes and 49% said no.

This is why Presidential candidates are afraid to raise the issue. Given that Yahoo viewers by definition can read and access the ‘net, the 49% of those responding “no” is alarmingly high.

People are still not awake on this issue, even though we’ve had a disastrous summer including terrible fires, unhealthy heat and air pollution and a really bad drought.

Beyond that, there are people saying ok so IF there is global warming it isn’t our fault. That, apparently, gets them off the hook for trying to work on solutions.

I think it might be smart to act AS IF the global warming had nothing to do with people and instead mobilize the country to deal with it, and other forms of environmental damage, making it clear that (Divine Will or no) not dealing with it will be catastrophic, probably sooner than we think.