I have been lucky. I’ve had the unique opportunity to do some traveling around the globe, and I actually currently live in Japan. After growing up in a small Wisconsin town, my perceptions of the world were, well, quite small. I rarely saw people of different ethnic origins, and was surrounded by middle-class white republicans. My world was small. How many of us can relate to this feeling?
It was announced today that a chunk of Antarctic ice 7 times the size of Manhattan Island collapsed. The ice, 160 square miles large, had been there possibly for 1,500 years. And now its suddenly gone.
I went to a talk tonight on global warming. Hrrrr.. the only myth about global warming is that it is a myth. Scientists do not discredit it. It seems as though popular culture puts the word of doubt in. But since popular culture deems tabloids abundantly important, commonsense serves to discredit popular culture as any sort of intelligent source to listen to.
oh lord.
