Comments on: Climate matters, and most of the world agrees http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2008/12/10/climate-matters-and-most-of-the-world-agrees/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Mon, 20 May 2013 11:16:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: climate_geek http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2008/12/10/climate-matters-and-most-of-the-world-agrees/comment-page-1/#comment-2 climate_geek Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:08:42 +0000 http://climate.columbia.edu/blog/?p=23#comment-2 Obviously climate change is very real, and the laymen who deny it have probably been systematically pumped with filler informational garb from mass-media.

There is too much data to deny the thing, but no one talks about the data to your average Joe on channel 5 news at 10. And those that do, bash the scientists that say we’re in trouble.

Nobody wants to be in a bad mood after all.

We are so consumed with comfort that it is hard to imagine not having disposable cups, one season clothing, 5 pairs of nice black shoes.

Our comforts blind us, and our politicians prefer it that way.

Hopefully now that more and more average Joes read alternate news, watch new media, and talk to others about this, companies may begin considering a new way to operate. Maybe.

I’m still at a toss up between where the change needs to come from, the consumer driven corporations or the government policies. Its whoever decides that being greedy is really not very nice when it may cost them their livelihood.

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