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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.

Current Mood: confused

From Wired: "Perhaps, instead [of better medicine], we should be trying to develop the best placebo possible, testing one placebo against another -- giving some subjects a placebo and others a placebo placebo -- in order to determine the very most convincing nonsense we can muster. I suspect that a few years from now we'll be getting glowing pills the size of walnuts, administered by doctors with monocles and German accents, because the delivery is so darn convincing we'll quickly get better."

The idea of a placebo placebo tickles me giddy.