--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thoughts interleaved below. > > --- authfriend wrote: > > > > Until the global warming crisis is validated by > > disaster, there will always be a few die-hard skeptics > > who refuse to wake up. ... > > And isn't crisis the only thing that really precipitates > change? I know in my life, I keep trying to perpetuate > old modes of living until they become absolutely untenable. > > It's like hitting bottom in the 12-step world, or that > statement Maharishi makes in his Gita commentary > about God only reappearing when life on Earth can > get no more wicked.
Would that mean that "good" people like Al Gore and Warren Buffett/Bill Gates are keeping God from reappearing? > > What needs to change is the media. Until the media > > stops quoting those diehard few for "balance," as if > > their point of view was equally valid, the faux > > controversy will appear to continue. > > I don't know for sure, but it seems to me that within > a week of "An Inconvenient Truth" coming to theaters, > I noted a change in reporting. I seem to recall one > story that took man-made climate change as the > given, and barely mentioned the naysayers in passing. Could well be, but now there seems to be something of a backlash. > It would be interesting to check in with the journalism > reviews in a few months or a year to see if they track > media treatment of the story. Indeed. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
