Do you Yahoo?

Click below, and read it if you want, or just skim the first few lines.  It's really all you need to know.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100701/sc_livescience/thedownsidetotherecoveryoftheozonehole

WTF?!

Who writes this stuff? And even worse: who in their right mind is listening?

The answer? That’s an easy one: everyone. Again, this is on the front page of Yahoo. Do you Yahoo?
This is a problem. Yes, I’ve said it. This is what we are given, what we are to believe is fact. The ever-changing facts. Is it the Government? This mythical BP (as we’ve not heard much about them until the great oil leak of 2010), or is it our wonderful American Scientists? Whom in the 1970’s reported that our world was in fact cooling. That’s right, not warming, but cooling. Scientists, who every other month are either being restricted from telling us the full truth, or whose information is being herded into different camps, dissected and re-lettered to inform us of a point that someone wants to prove. Sure, there is undoubtedly truth in the words, but likely not in the context that it’s being delved out to the greater bodied American, nay, global community.

Is it wrong to think that we could do some good by polluting less? No, not at all. In fact we should be doing a lot better. But Auto companies are still producing gas guzzling cars and trucks, Semi trucks are still transporting goods, and planes are still flying daily for vacations, business trips, and again, delivering supplies and goods. Oh, and our military. They like to do a lot of the same.

So over the past couple of decades, people on televisions and in newspapers, and even at our concerts, have been telling us we need to conserve. Recycle. They kept telling, holding huge events, raising money (for what, I don’t know) and still nothing happened. We humans still needed wood for housing and entertainment centers, so the rainforests and other forests have been continually chopped down. Rivers are still being dammed. Celebrities are still driving Hummers. (Yes, even the ones that are pro-conservation) And we in our everyday lives will choose our car over walking a block to go to the grocery store. Not all of us, but a vast majority of us. After all, it is our privilege.

But efforts have been made. Solar panels caught on sometime in the 90’s or so, who really knows, and then Wind energy started gaining ground. Hybrid cars were made, and were a selling point for a number of SUV’s that sported a whopping 1 MPG difference from their fully-gas powered twins. But there are a couple of decent hybrid/electric cars out there, so it shows some progress. Mass transit in larger cities has unclogged much of the congestion of days of old, but we are still reproducing at an alarming rate. We’re even having children at younger ages. WE are out of control. And unfortunately they just don’t have enough room on the mass transit lines for every single one of us. Not that most of us are even trying to do this.

So while we have made efforts, and many of us have felt that we’re making a difference in our everyday lives, things have not changed that much. Sure, some of our power plants have been shut down, but the amount of people in the world has increased, which mean more cars on the road. And yes, planes aren’t taking off quite as regularly as they used to, but they’re still up there. Airports are still polluting. Cars are still polluting. We are still polluting. And now one of our oceans is polluting non-stop. So the question is, have we really done enough to start repairing the ozone layer?

How could we? We have, some of us, made efforts. And maybe the amount of pollution has been curbed SOMEWHAT, but the idea that we have curbed soooo much that the hole is actually closing, is so reproved that it cannot be fact. The stats are continually out there, shoved down our throat, and to have someone come out and tell us, ‘you’re doing well America’ is the kind of ill-mannered lie we could do without. If the government or whoever wants people to change, maybe all they really need to do is give us the truth.
Unadulterated, unopinionated, and with a blunt edge of unavoidable reality.

Then again, it’s just my opinion. One of many. And while I’m ignored, we’ll just keep letting dis-truths pummel us with the idea that all is well.