Scientists---let me repeat that word, scientists---tell us that global warming is a problem, and yet we have here southerners who like to balance Pabst beer cans on their bellies who want to pretend that they know more than scientists. That's rich. This is pretty much what we get from conservatives, isn't it? Actually, we get it from Republicans and energy industry toadies like Scott Pruitt--people who don't want the energy industry to spend more to reduce pollutants. The U.S. is the second largest emitter of carbon in the world. We have GOP politicians and fools with no scientific background or knowledge who have their temerity to challenge scientific conclusions. I am not a scientist, and so I personally wouldn't want to stand in front of microphone and proclaim that Einstein's Theory of Relativity or Newton's Law of Gravity to be false, because I know that doing so would make me look stupid and perhaps even sinister--someone who wishes to defy the obvious and confuse people unnecessarily with fraudulent claims. But conservatives and GOP politicians seem to have no problem doing this. Sad. Pathetic.
We went through the same thing with cigarette smoking and cancer, didn't we. Tobacco companies spent 30 years lying about smoking--no, it's FINE to smoke, it is completely safe--so that goobers would keep on buying their cigarettes. We had health experts trying to tell everyone that smoking was dangerous--but the tobacco industry lied to protect it profits for decades, and people chose to believe the tobacco industry. This is no different. Industry doesn't want to change, doesn't want to spend money--even though we're talking about hugely profitable industries--and, worse, they spend millions spewing disinformation to the public--propaganda that gets parroted by no-integrity Republicans who are always in the pocket of industry--and then their fraudulent nonsense gets parroted by red staters that we hear on this board and throughout flyover American. Only these days it's worse than when tobacco and smoking was the issue because now we have a nationwide network of right-wing radio--crazy talk radio--that thrives on spreading nonsense. Benghazi--the fake scandal that got talked about for years as if Clinton was to blame for an attack on a diplomatic office in Libya. The polar ice caps are melting--there are plenty of photographs to document it, along with other research and findings--but all the goobers want to pretend that what is staring them in the face is not real. Sad. That's why a lot of rural folk--bringing this full circle--still smoke!
