So put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox News Kool-Aid and turn off the television, because I have a little bet for you.
This graph is from a great report on media coverage of climate change in 2011 from Climate Daily. Here’s the gist: “Media coverage of climate change continued to tumble in 2011, declining roughly 20 percent from 2010′s levels and nearly 42 percent from 2009′s peak, according to analysis of DailyClimate.org’s archive of global media.”
That’s right. Despite a year with some of the craziest, record-breakingist weather events the world has ever seen–many of which climate scientists have linked to warming–there were comparatively few stories about climate change.
Here’s my bet – it’s a take-off on what is known as Pascal’s Wager, Pascal of course the fifteenth century ardent atheist, physical scientist and math master who so frightened the Church that his head to this day remains pickled in some sub-basement of the Vatican, who was famously “bet” by some ignorant little-boy-fucking priest he would recant and become a “christian” on his deathbed – here’s my bet, daughter-fucker: if I am wrong, if climate change isn’t real and human activity is not contributing to it, I don’t lose a bloody damned thing.
On-the-other-hand, if you are wrong, if climate change IS real and human activity is contributing to it, we as a species, we humans, our children and our grand-children, lose the only planet we know of that will sustain we as a species, we humans, our children and our grand-children. We lose the whole damned world.
You want to take that bet? I’ll bet your dog doesn’t save you. Or we humans.
