Voters Weigh In On Energy and the Environment — ZZZzzzzzz
In the last two days, I’ve written a couple of pieces on the presidential debates here in the U.S., and so my head’s been caught up in the subject of the psyche of the American voter. Of course, the rest of the world hasn’t stopped just because we have a couple politicians saying whatever they think they need to in order to win votes. For example, here’s an article on climate change and the melting of the polar icecaps.
Here’s the amazing part: apparently these guys, Obama and Romney, their advisers, their coaches and their speech-writers are correct: American voters really do not care about this. Island nations are in the process of disappearing, droughts are worsening, and extreme weather conditions are occurring more frequently, and with more devastating effects – and we honestly don’t care.
In fact, the politicos think we have so little interest in the subject that the whole subject of energy and the environment received almost no mention in a 90-minute debate. Romney brought it up to ridicule the Obama administration for spending money on “green jobs,” Solyndra in particular, and Obama quickly brushed it off and changed the subject.
It’s remarkable, but it’s true. As a nation, we’re almost entirely indifferent to the fact that the Earth as we know it has changed forever, and the pace at which we’re rendering it uninhabitable is accelerating with each passing day.
Those of us who feel a concern about stuff like this have a gallactically large challenge in front of us. Good thing it’s after 5 PM on a Friday; time for a cold one.
Craig, I know that others do not agree with me but I still say, “Change just for the sake of change is usually not the better choice” This time I say it to you as the E-Mails I have been receiving from you for several years and I sometimes comment upon were easier to follow, and easier to link to the full comment then the comments were right there at the end of your article so it was fresh. You really blotch it with all your Tags, to catch the search engines in large print on the e-mailed “Home” page. there is no reason not to have them in small print or even as a border, digitally all letters are numbers and all are the same size in memory or in the data stream and the old graphics were much more interesting as a header than 20 red large font words and the search engines wee them the same size. The words intended for humans should be bigger not the tags. Get a programmer who is more competent and sent the 12 year old child who set-up this format back to her milk and cookies.
“Word Press” is not an improvement!