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Wow, so is there ANYTHING out there for kids/young teens anymore that isn't completely chock full of WE MUST SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT propaganda? First Happy Feet, then Wall-E, and now even the latest Maximum Ride book. Just wow.
I'll complement the more recent attempts on one thing that the older attacks lacked, though: things no longer reek of LAWL, HUMANS ARE EVIL (they still smell a bit, but they don't make me go for the barf bag.) Max Ride even put it in a way I can really admire: Regardless of Global Warming or not, pollution is still clearly a Very Bad Thing that we should stop.
Look, I've seen the facts. I've seen both sides of the arguement, on at least 50 websites, several science magazines (both like Discover and like the publications they get their facts from), and I've looked at Micheal Chriton and James Patterson's sides of the story (it entertains, but not surprises, me which one pulled more facts into their book on the subject). I definitely think the world is getting hotter. I also think it's gotten hotter and colder over and over again throughout its 4.5 billion year life span! hottest temperatures in 800,000 years? Even if that happened on a regular basis, that would mean it's been this hot 5,625 times before! And we know it's been hotter, even when the dinosaurs were around - and they sure as hell didn't have any factories. (nope, but they were methane factories unto themselves, and I'm willing to bet a pack of brachiosaurs would cause some MAJOR deforestation).
Put simply, the environment changes, the landscape changes, and species die off and evolve ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Yes, we need to stop polluting, for the sake of not killing off things outside of the natural order, and FOR THE SAKE OF THE HEALTH OF OUR OWN CHILDREN, but we cannot sit here and be paranoid about killing off every last polar bear or blue salmon or whatever. For all we know, polar bears have just outlived their welcome - they were designed for an ice age, not for a warm planet. (So were white people, for that matter... TURN OFF YOUR A/CS AND MOVE NORTH!) If I'm going to recycle (which, now that there's a place within a distance that driving there doesn't undo the good I would have done, I'm gonna), I'm going to do it because I don't want to contribute to a landfill, not because I'm worried about poor little Mumble. I want to be able to enjoy a book or movie without having SAVE THE WORLD crammed down my throat almost as often as DON'T PIRATE MOVIES.
We need to find a good balance... A nice point where we and the world can live at peace with one another, instead of one overpowering the other. And right now, it's getting to the point where I can't even go waste $10 on a movie without the rest of the world bearing down on me.
I'll complement the more recent attempts on one thing that the older attacks lacked, though: things no longer reek of LAWL, HUMANS ARE EVIL (they still smell a bit, but they don't make me go for the barf bag.) Max Ride even put it in a way I can really admire: Regardless of Global Warming or not, pollution is still clearly a Very Bad Thing that we should stop.
Look, I've seen the facts. I've seen both sides of the arguement, on at least 50 websites, several science magazines (both like Discover and like the publications they get their facts from), and I've looked at Micheal Chriton and James Patterson's sides of the story (it entertains, but not surprises, me which one pulled more facts into their book on the subject). I definitely think the world is getting hotter. I also think it's gotten hotter and colder over and over again throughout its 4.5 billion year life span! hottest temperatures in 800,000 years? Even if that happened on a regular basis, that would mean it's been this hot 5,625 times before! And we know it's been hotter, even when the dinosaurs were around - and they sure as hell didn't have any factories. (nope, but they were methane factories unto themselves, and I'm willing to bet a pack of brachiosaurs would cause some MAJOR deforestation).
Put simply, the environment changes, the landscape changes, and species die off and evolve ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Yes, we need to stop polluting, for the sake of not killing off things outside of the natural order, and FOR THE SAKE OF THE HEALTH OF OUR OWN CHILDREN, but we cannot sit here and be paranoid about killing off every last polar bear or blue salmon or whatever. For all we know, polar bears have just outlived their welcome - they were designed for an ice age, not for a warm planet. (So were white people, for that matter... TURN OFF YOUR A/CS AND MOVE NORTH!) If I'm going to recycle (which, now that there's a place within a distance that driving there doesn't undo the good I would have done, I'm gonna), I'm going to do it because I don't want to contribute to a landfill, not because I'm worried about poor little Mumble. I want to be able to enjoy a book or movie without having SAVE THE WORLD crammed down my throat almost as often as DON'T PIRATE MOVIES.
We need to find a good balance... A nice point where we and the world can live at peace with one another, instead of one overpowering the other. And right now, it's getting to the point where I can't even go waste $10 on a movie without the rest of the world bearing down on me.
GHSDHFLSSGDAHFLSAHDSDFKAL;GHDFGSA xDDDDDD
*fit*
I laughed.
Hard.