It's better to err on the side of being safe than sorry. Every time environmentalists come up with some "new scam," many people claim it is unfounded. Think the DDT debacle, holes in the ozone layer, species going extinct, etc. A lot of people claimed that environmentalists were just "making it all up."
I'm all for scientific evaluation of a problem, but simply because we can't make a scientific model for something doesn't mean it isn't happening. We still don't have a model that completely explains how gravity works, and only had a rudimentary understanding of it until this century. Does that mean we just made gravity up since scientists couldn't make a model that fully explained it? No, that is a completely ludicrous argument.
I'm not saying global warming is 100% fact or anything, but some people dismiss it far too hastily.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
