Thoughts from the Thinking

…is not that the world is getting hotter but that people are idiots.

Today while walking to campus after the city of Cincinnati had been battered by nearly 2 feet of snow in the past week a man driving a nice probably hybrid car with good fuel efficiency was shouting out like an idiot, and I quote: “Bunch of retards! Global warming my ass!”

Part of me wanted to shout back about how the term “global warming” isn’t so much about air temperature or how we would experience climate but the overall temperature of the planet and global climate shifts…then I wondered why he was shouting at me. I wanted to challenge him by calling him a hypocrite for driving his nice fuel efficient car (ie environmentally friendly vehicle) and shouting at random strangers who may or may not think that the term “global warming” is an accurate description of how the climate is shifting. It didn’t take more than a minute before I wanted to beat the crap out of this man simply for yelling at me. But, I’m past all that now, I just feel sorry for the spawns that will come from him…they will be so stupid…just like him.

See, people are idiots. That is the real inconvenient truth that Al Gore should have been pushing. Human beings have actually managed to break the prime directive of all life on this planet: to survive at all cost and reproduce. We actually go out of our ways to inject toxins into our system (cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, trans-fats, etc). Sure, we have made huge strides in health and soon there will be a pill for just about everything (hell, there already is a pill for just about everything). Have a headache, there’s a pill for that; got pregnant, there’s a pill for that; have a stomach ache, there’s a pill for that. One day there may be a cure for death. The scary thing is that then the only form of death will be suicide. One of my friends commented that we as a species are suicidal and he is right. Human beings are idiots.

Where is this all going? I don’t know…but maybe I’m not actually past wanting to beat the crap out of that man for yelling at me.