They're getting stupider

[andygates]

Wired has this rather unsettling story about a survey which shows that Americans seem to be deciding that global warming's nothing to do with them:

Over the last year and a half, the number of Americans who believe the Earth is warming has dropped. The decline is especially precipitous among Republicans: in January 2007, 62 percent accepted global warming, compared to just 49 percent now.

Is this just election-year partisan bullshit, or is it general-public-can't-think-longterm bullshit, or what?  A reaction against Al Gore for daring to tell people what to do?  Just Plain Dumbness?

See, this is why humanity is fucked.  Because humanity is too damn stupid to save itself.  Do not waste time trying to save modern civilisation, just plan for you and yours to ride out the storms, water wars, economic collapse, famine and mass migration.

Comments

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's public knowledge that W's administration bullied scientists into toning down their reports and fired people who didn't comply.

"We create the reality" indeed. That's going to come up against a big hard dose of real reality soon enough. No amount of wishful thinking, spin or faith is going to magic up more drinking water or mitigate storm effects - and extending the denial just ends up with hilarious Lysenkoism.

I'm not really digging at Americans here so much as at *people*. The whole damn biomass. *sigh*

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my world.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Been there already, apart (clearly) from the gall at seeing them get stupider. Stupid I expect, stupidER just seems so bloody wretched. I so need to see Idiocracy

[teahisme.livejournal.com]

My Grandpop used to say that human beings were a cancer on the planet. we grew without a check or balance to our growth or even regard for our impact on our host organism. He was of the opinion that some day in my life time mother nature would strike back and re-establish a balance. He believed there would be great floods and great droughts. That there would be famine and disease resulting from the environmental havoc we had wreaked upon our good host.

I miss him a great deal sometimes. He was a very smart uneducated American. Ironically he died from lung cancer as a result of a smoking addiction.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Your Grandpop shared a vibe with the current revenge-of-Gaia crowd.

I disagree. We're no more a cancer than termites or algal bloom are. We sometimes get out of check, and sometimes die off. We nearly died out completely, once. It's in the mitochondrial DNA.