Two topics which deserve a better post than this

[sqbr]

1) OMG Australian internet filtering ARGH ARGH

2) OMG Copenhagen, and global warming in general, ARGH ARGH

Any time I think about either of these topics I just get all ARGH and nothing coherent comes out. But yes. Argh.

This is a serious problem with me and climate change(*). I flip between not thinking about it and FREAKING OUT, neither of which leads anywhere very productive. I do force myself to read the posts that come up on my flist and do what I can to be less wasteful etc based on the knowledge I've managed to glean in bursts between thinking "What can I do about this?" and "ARGH can't think about this any more". But still :(

(*)The internet filter is bad, but might not happen and if it does is still very unlikely to lead directly to the end of civilisation as we know it.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

I've been a bit freaked by the fact that the only time I'm hearing anything about Copenhagen, I'm in the car, on some trip that I can't work out how to not make.

[ex_gretel640]

If it helps, global warming is pretty much guaranteed to happen anyway, no matter what we do. All humans are likely doing is adding to the rate of temperature change.

Global warming hype at the moment annoys me because it means people will consider climate change and carbon bullshit over what are in my opinion more sustainable and less wasteful objects.

/bitter environmental geographer