Letters to the Editor
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Doomsayers or realists?
How are we to know the truth if we have to hide from it or, at the very least, glide over uncomfortable realities? Definitely, it is possible to be too negative and punishing; however, so many of the environmentalists I have listened to keep saying that we do have time to make some changes which will ensure a future that is not so bleak if we do nothing.
What we have here rather than in Europe where environmentalism is acceptable, is a loud, well-funded right wing willing to blurt out any lie in order to facilitate an agenda. That agenda is to diminish the scope of governmental interference in the pursuit of making the almighty dollar. Of course, anyone so inclined or who has worked very hard to get his Hummer believes Rush and his cohorts when they contend that liberals are pushing a lie about the environment, never mind that this makes no sense. The left wing believes the scientists because we are of that frame of mind. But we are just as likely as the next guy to resist making some changes in our lifestyle.
This article leaves me baffled. How do we face the truth before we are hit on the head with it. Yes, the earth will survive, but we might not like the consequences of bleating on about the sanctity of life and how well the human race is doing when New York gets hit by a Category Five because of not addressing the issue of global warming!