Dear recently converted climate skeptic

Sometimes you need a clean break. From people, from love, from friends, from people you cannot stand. We are kind of fickle and do change our minds often and so more than seldom, we leave things in suspension. We think we might go back on them or that they might come back to us.

And what troubles me the most is the fact that the circle will never reach the same point again, because people have changed. What drove them to do things have become lies. What made your minds come together in the first place is just another set of mumbo-jumbo for them. Faith. Is it so easy to let go? And it is not just a stupid ‘unscientific’ concept of faith. (I do not think it is stupid, and by faith here, i also mean an instinct. that propels you to work for the right reason)

Climate change. The biggest war of our times. I have recently been hearing from my you how you will never work on those lies again. I am guessing- and i am not in the mood to indulge you in conversation, call it my lethargy or unwillingness to make the effort- that the goings on in the university of East Anglia cyberspace has a lot to do with you terming theselies!

So, one set of emails and it has all turned into a lie? ever imagine what will happen if our personal emails become public? all hell would break loose. at least in my world. Emails are personal and can be scandalous. But can that be used to paint the entire picture black and are they the real truth? What happened at East Anglia was stupid, utterly and was definitely wrong. But does that make all the other science that exists wrong? Or all the effects we see of human greed and overconsumption wrong? Does it mean you stop fighting for what you think is the most important? or does it just caution you a bit more so you can make a more informed decision.

If you were a person trying to work on climate change and think it is all a big lie today, you have just played into the hands of all the great corporations that are out to absorb all the profits they can. I met someone who claimed that climate was changing because the earth was moving closer to the sun, and completely believed that. There are meetings going on right now alongside the Copenhagen summit that debunk the entire theory of human made climate change. I think it is just a ruse to please people by saying things that make us feel we have nothing to do with what’s happening in the world.

Climate change is the one overarching subject where one could address human over consumption and the need to slow down. If you think it is one big lie, it just means the end of idealism, at the fact that another alternate life is possible. It is you giving into the broader scheme of things, playing into the hands of those that want to play you.I do not want it to be a clean break, but if that’s how you see it, so be it.

yours,

still a misanthrope and still a believer that we have everything to do with the state the world is in

(I recommend this article highly)

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