The Inadvertent Humor of the Conservatives

When you think about it, they can be really funny. For instance, they are all concerned whether or not Social Security will be insolvent in 2037. They worry about what the Federal deficit will look like in 2050.

But they don't seem to give a frak about climate change, the Sargasso Seas of Garbage or the acidification of the oceans. They don't give a damn about the point that a warming planet will mean a growing scarcity of fresh water as the glaciers melt away. They could care less about the fact that petroleum is becoming harder and harder to obtain and what that may mean for the global economy. The rosy predictions of the coal advocates that there is enough for the next few hundred years is likely bullshit, as well, as we may hit the peak of coal production by the middle of this century, if not sooner.[1] Nor do they seem to worry about the fact that in the last sixty years, the human population has more than doubled.[2].

We have a lot of major problems staring us in the face. Compared to them, the long-term Federal debt is like a pimple on the ass of an elephant.

[1]To even do that, the coal companies will transform much of Appalachia into a lunar landscape.
[2]Tom Lehrer, in his song We Will All Go Together When We Go, mentioned "nearly three billion chunks of well-done steak. It took from the dawn of humanity until 1800 for human population to climb to a billion, over 100 years to add a second billion, few decades to add a third billion, and now we add a billion every 12 to 14 years.