http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...as_the_myth_we_needed_to_save_our_oceans.html
This is a fascinating article about how most environmental alarmism is intentionally exaggerated nonsense -- exaggerated by activists and spread by gullible and sympathetic journalists.
His example: The great "garbage island" in the Pacific. It was never more than random junk that floated into a vortex first noticed centuries ago. And you could sail right through the "island" and never see one piece of man-made material. But in the hands of committed environmental activists who pushed it on gullible and sensational pro-Green journalists who had never seen it with their own eyes, it eventually became a "continent-sized mountain" of debris.
What makes this piece fascinating is that it is written by an environmentalist who doesn't see this so much as dishonest as he does necessary. He's actively advocating for some invented 'symbol' to sell us on Global Warming (that is, climate change.)
This is a fascinating article about how most environmental alarmism is intentionally exaggerated nonsense -- exaggerated by activists and spread by gullible and sympathetic journalists.
His example: The great "garbage island" in the Pacific. It was never more than random junk that floated into a vortex first noticed centuries ago. And you could sail right through the "island" and never see one piece of man-made material. But in the hands of committed environmental activists who pushed it on gullible and sensational pro-Green journalists who had never seen it with their own eyes, it eventually became a "continent-sized mountain" of debris.
What makes this piece fascinating is that it is written by an environmentalist who doesn't see this so much as dishonest as he does necessary. He's actively advocating for some invented 'symbol' to sell us on Global Warming (that is, climate change.)
