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Originally Posted by llamabeast
When people suggest global warming doesn't exist, or even may not exist, it makes me want to cry.
There are few scientific theories so well supported by evidence, I believe. If it was in people's interests to believe it, everyone would have thirty years ago.
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Actually, I believe that evolution is even more backed up by evidence, but there are still some people who opt not to believe that.
Hard to fathom for me how you can accept genetics for solving crimes and making cosmetics but don't accept it when comparing genetic material of creatures, or how you don't see the strong hints during the evolution of the human fetus.
The global warming one still perplexes me. Twenty years ago, when I was a kid, it was presented to me as a fact, there were even doomsday scenarios about an unstoppable end of the world where mankind would inevitably maneuver itself into, one way or the other. Back then, you vowed to change this, you didn't want to hurt your environment after all. In the meantime, you accepted that it isn't easy to solve and tried to always look for "greener" ways to do things. Now suddenly the US begins to see the big honking unmistakeable evidence, as if they found it hiding under a rock or behind a bush
twenty years later, and even get a big political campaign around it, with former vice presidents writing bestseller books about it. Duh, slow on the uptake much? Guess it was the media difference.
About the presidential election: That Bush was voted once was a mistake, that he was voted twice made me lose faith in the voters. It seems that people are influenced a lot more by the political campaigns than I'd like, in which the republicans have more success by appealing to the voters' emotions and offering simple solutions which are easy to understand and believe in, even if they might be useless. The democrats only seem to be able to convince intellectuals and do-gooders, while the republicans win by having the ordinary people on their side, the mass of the voters. As much as I'd like them to, I don't see the democrats winning the election.