This blog is living proof that, as the media tells us, “we’re bored with climate change” (The BBC suggests today that we’ve moved on from caring about climate change because we’re tired of it). It’s not that there’s nothing new to learn about the issue of whether we, and the Earth, will survive to see another century.
An overview, Melting Accelerates in Antarctica: So Far, 2015 Is Hottest Year Yet, in Truthout.org by Dahr Jamail posted just last night spells out what’s new, and will fill you in on what you may have missed. If you haven’t read the latest reports on anthropogenic climate disorder (or even if you have), I highly recommend it: http://truth-out.org/news/item/30063-melting-accelerates-in-antarctica-so-far-2015-is-hottest-year-yet It can begin to give you an appreciation of the magnitude of this dire situation.
Coincidentally, on April 7th I wrote a semi-satirical post about the lack of interest in climate change and how business as usual will bring it on, entitled, “C’mon Nature, Show Us a Sign!” https://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/cmon-nature-show-us-a-sign/ As if to prove my point, so far it’s been read by only 31 people. That could almost make one wonder if overpopulation itself is just a hoax. How can there be 7 and a quarter billion people on the planet when only 31 read that post?
Meanwhile the post, “Chorus of Outrage as Obama Administration Approves Arctic Drilling for Shell Oil” only received 23 views.
Now, compare those figures to the 53,436 people so far (6,652 on the first day, followed by 15,094 the next) who have read the article I posted on April 1 about a woman who hunts poachers in Africa.
(Note to anyone writing to spread the word about climate change: You might want to include a photo of a lady cradling a machine gun in front of an American flag, they seem to attract an awful lot of interest.)
Exposing the Big Game 
Yes, Jim, I think humans, for the most part, probably won’t get too worried until they turn on the faucet, and no water comes out, or worse yet, when they can’t fill up their gas tanks or find food in the supermarket. If this doesn’t do it for them, maybe it will hit them when the fast food joints close, and the air conditioning stops. Will most humans even care if Antarctica’s snow is gone? How many humans give a shit that Glacier National Park will soon have to be renamed, because the glaciers will be gone?
Who cares if the bees, bats, birds are in severe decline, along with most amphibians? Do many, but some of us on your blog, worry about how crowded the National Parks are these days, these vestiges of what pristene once was, now suffering from too many cars, litter and pollution? Or, how crazy & dangerous humans are on the packed superhighways–with road rage increasing at an alarming rate?
Who cares if 250, 000 more humans are spawned every day on this overburdened, dying planet? Who cares that wildlife has decreased by at least 50% due to the presence of Homo sapiens?
Some of us, think of this everyday, but for the most part, I sadly believe that as Homo sapiens stands at the edge of Planetary Death, his mouth gaping in disbelief, denial will not end until life itself ends. Whatever Gods there might be, should have damned us to hell eons ago, to save Earth from us. Thanks so much for allowing me to vent my terrible sadness and disgust about the species I reluctantly am a part of.
http://www.foranimals.org
I’ll never tell (that you’re part of the species). I won’t call you a human if you don’t call me one;) Vent here anytime!
We are “bored” with climate change??? And the gold medal for the most stupid species goes to …
I think the CA drought is the perfect example – not one bit of preparation or conservation – just take all the ground can give, and then move on. We don’t seem to learn – 1930s Dusbowl –> migration to CA –> 20?? Dustbowl. We’re running out of places to move to!
I don’t think people are bored; they never cared or took it seriously in the first place! The amount of big cars and trucks, and idling engines while talking on cell phones I see around me on a daily basis says it all to me – now multiply that by tens of thousands!
With the resurgence of racism in the US and anti-Semitism in Europe, and wolf eradication, it is worrisome – it really does seem like we’re headed back to the 1930s!
Millions! Billions, for that matter!