There are many looming threats to human life as we value it: religious fundamentalists, overpopulation, and more. Greater dangers than global warming are present here on earth. There's no reasonable doubt that global warming exists, but it's an overrated problem, I think. Some places will get hotter, some species will die, and some people will have to move or experience the same fate as aforementioned species. But the fact that global warming is going to occur still pisses me off, to be sure. I feel like it should never have happened for a number of infuriatingly obvious reasons, i.e. terrorism, irreplacable resources, things like that. Really - it wasn't unpreventable.

Two things about this make me particularly angry.

Number one: the inaction, not of the everyday human, but of those in positions of power. People accept the reality with which they are presented. It is not the responsibility of Joe Bob, the tax attorney, to invent a better fuel cell. And you know what? No progress on that will be made, not until New York City is under six inches of water - and then they'll invent it in a few months.

Number two: the anglosphere. It's no secret that the countries with a white majority rule the world. A little known fact about global warming is that it will benefit the anglosphere; that is to say, North America and Europe (not the Aussies, though). While coastline will be lost, we will not be scorched, drowning, and/or suffering vast biospherical damage; rather, it'll get a bit warmer and our growth seasons will halve themselves. This means that every harvest we yield now will become two harvests in twenty-five years.

So - it is a THEORY (not quite a belief) of mine that one of the major, closeted reasons that global warming hasn't been set back by the powers that be is due in part to the oldest reason, the reason that bad things frequently don't get fixed: the people with the power and money to do something about it just aren't that affected by the problem.