Here's a Google Map showing the number of votes that have come in from citizens demanding strong, binding agreements from the "leaders" currently butting heads in Copenhagen.From Europe, which has experienced killer heat waves: nearly 60,000 people.
From Africa, in the process of being scorched to death: 125,000 people.
From Asia, where coastal nations are likely to become memories: over a million people.
From Australia, in perpetual drought and at risk of becoming a deserted continent: 25,000 people.
From South America, with its glaciers disappearing and many nations having no other water source: 13,000 people.
And from North America, where Fox News reigns in the United States, and where Canadians still see snow out their windows, and where Mexico just wants the drug murders to stop: 7,600 people.
That's roughly the population of New York City back when the United States was being founded.
And that's really all there is to say about this. Climate news is reduced to soundbites, because it's (a) scientific, (b) statistical, and (c) depressing. Therefore, North Americans, currently enjoying all the water they want (unless they live in Vegas, Phoenix, or California), tune out or rant about how Al Gore is behind all this so that he can become fabulously wealthy.
But OMG, have you heard about Tiger Woods? The number of women he's slept with on the side? The color of undies he liked his women to wear? The size of his penis? Hell, there's over a thousand comments about that last detail alone. Run the story for seven days, you've got the same number as the people in North America who give a damn about what's (not) happening in Copenhagen.
Pathetic.
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1 comment:
Really pathetic. Criminal, even.
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