Misunderstanding Existance

Industry has, for a long time, denied climate change for obvious reasons.


First of all, the science "just didn't add up". Then, the science was "shaky". Unfortunately, now that the scientific community has told the "spokespeople" (lobbyists) of these industries that they don't have a leg to stand on, they've had to silently acknowledge man-made climate change and come up with another way to prevent people from reducing their consumption.


I was lucky enough to hear one of these "spokespeople" and their statements today on the radio.


"Climate change is a very complex subject and can only be understood by very few scientists".


I assume the underlying message of that would be "you don't understand, so there is nothing to worry about, it might as well not exist".


Do they think that just because the public doesn't fully understand something will mean that they won't see how it could effect them?


I'm writing this on a computer and although I can make a mean PowerPoint, I can't begin to understand how my laptop works. That doesn't mean that computers don't effect me, or I can't understand what Asimov was trying to get at about artificial intelligence.


The reason why our economy is so tangled in legislation is due to a corporate-level moral irresponsibility, of which the denial of climate change is a prime example.


It seems our corporations have grasped the art of lobbying while ignoring the reasons they need to lobby in the first place.

"That's a good drawing." "Why? Who drew it?" "...ah."

It's well known that, in art, the artist is considered before the quality of the drawing. Usually this means that the well known artists get an instant leg-up.

"Drawings believed to be those that Adolf Hitler submitted in a failed attempt to gain entry into the Vienna Academy of Art are to be auctioned. A distinguished emeritus dean of art has studied them and said that today they would be considered only up to "moderate GCSE standard"

 I don't doubt how distinguished this emeritus Dean of Art (I assume he's dutch) is, but I can be confident that Dean has never seen GCSE Art coursework.