"Proficient"

Smarter than everyone else? Or just meaner...

Work-life balance. Get some!

I wish there were a way to get the message across...

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Ok we get it....global warming is bad

I remember I was in junior high or high school when I first started hearing about CFCs in aerosols and this thing called "Global Warming" that was threatening to destroy the planet and all this other environmentalist stuff that not only scared most of us into using gel in our hair instead of AquaNet but started the trend of "Save the Planet" clubs and massive recycling efforts. And then that whole thing just slowly died off. People started becoming more interested in other things, like the Internet. Or Enron. Or catching Osama Bin Laden. Or trans fats. Or some big hurricane. Or rising gas prices. And then slowly but surely, the whole global warming thing started creeping back into the limelight.

Now I'm as environmentally conscious as the next person, but I'm just not sure what all this "shock and awe" in the media is trying to make people do. I really want to know, how much time do we have left before the planet burns up? Is it five years? 10 years? 100,000? It makes a big difference you know. We know that burning fossil fuels when we drive cars and run factories to make goods and run power plants to give us light are all slowly depleting the ozone layer, but are we supposed to just stop doing all of that? Go back to the way we lived in the stone age? No electricity, no TV, no internet, just you and nature. I guess the we also wouldn't have to worry about trans fats and processed foods also, we'd just eat the things nature intended us to eat, berries and twigs and raw uncooked meat. If driving a 16 mile-per-gallon SUV is making someone personally responsible for killing the environment, shouldn't the government do something more drastic and say, "hey guys, let's STOP making cars that run that inefficiently." AND let's stop this nonsense of "I can reduce my carbon footprint by donating a lot of money to environmentalist groups so they can go plant trees to make up for my lack of doing anything to help really reduce my energy consumption because I'm rich (yes I'm talking about you Al Gore)."

I just feel like this whole resurrection of the global warming "news" is just the next big media frenzy and celebrity cause. Britney Spears can only keep the public entranced for so long, they need that big ticket item that affects everyone of us to keep people watching TV and buying Al Gore's books. I'm not saying you shouldn't carpool and recycle, but don't do it because some celebrity told you to.