Admittedly, Al Gore does tend to drive me a little bit crazy.
Okay, that’s not what they mean. Here, read this:
RATES of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change, a report to be released today says.
What they mean is: when the climate changes, people are going to go crazy. Next up: class action lawsuits!
They’re completely ignoring the possibility that the climate will be better, of course. Were we better off, for example, with that glacier draped over half of North America 50,000 years ago (or however long it was)? I think not. We’re better off without it.
Although to be fair, we’d probably have fewer people overall if the climate hadn’t changed and the glacier had stayed put. Fewer people overall means fewer crazy people, just statistically. So maybe they’re right about this.
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“What they mean is: when the climate changes, people are going to go crazy.”
No, they mean they are successfully instilling high levels of unreasoning, traumatic fear in statistically significant numbers of young children.
Trog, apparently as a youth you didn’t listen to our stories. Back when your dad, Jerry, Jim, and I were kids the Laurentide ice sheet moved into our backyard and we called it the Wisconsin glaciation. And you never even heard of any mental illness among those few of us that survived. It gave your dad hay fever, however. So you must listen to your betters.
That’s just crazy talk Trog!