“Oh no, the Night Wolf is eating the Moon Virgin. Give me some silver and I’ll make him spit her out.”
The bullying of fellow citizens by means of dreads and frights has been going on since paleolithic times. Greenpeace fund-raisers on the subject of global warming are not much different than tribal wizards on the subject of lunar eclipses.
“Oh no, the Night Wolf is eating the Moon Virgin.
Give me some silver and I’ll make him spit her out.”
— P.J.O’Rourke, All the Trouble in the World
Barbra & Jack Donachy
December 28, 2012 at 22:34
Last time we saw P.J. O’Rourke he was on Real Time with Bill Maher – so drunk he was incoherent. You can Google it. So… you don’t believe humankind – with a population of 7 billion – is doing massive harm to the environment? Just asking.
kazvorpal
January 1, 2013 at 18:22
Ants, with a population of trillions, produces far more CO2 and methane than humans. Termites produce even more. Wetlands dwarf both in their production of greenhouse gasses. Humans, in fact, produce less than 3% of all CO2 or methane. Likewise, there are more trees than humans, and they produce more nitrous oxide.
“There are lots of people, and I can see what they do, so they must be harmful” is silly, inductive reasoning.
Barbra & Jack Donachy
January 1, 2013 at 19:01
Oh brother…