House of Eratosthenes

…I’ve not seen expressed anywhere else. And I’ll bet you haven’t either. I was noticing a common thread in the global warming…er…I guess I’ll call it the mantra. And the common thread seems to place a great deal more priority on this “coming together” stuff than actually generating the results we say we want or need. It’s like, if we come together and work toward a common goal, and fail at it, we’ve succeeded, but if we fix the whole freakin’ problem forever but most of us sat the effort out, then we must have failed.

Our global warming alarmists insist it’s about saving the earth but it isn’t about socialism. But the goal seems to have a lot to do with altering our mindsets and at times it doesn’t seem to have a lot to do with improving the environment, much less saving it.

So here’s my idea.

Why don’t we handle it the way we handle Mad Cow Disease? Think about it. Mad Cow Disease, unlike global warming, has really killed people. It comes, and then it goes…now, how did we do that? Did we “come together to fight Mad Cow Disease”? No, we didn’t. We had people studying it, along with all other types of diseases, and we made it into a sub-discipline of animal husbandry and human/animal medicine. If you worked in that field, or were a cattle farmer, or worked in an agency that regulated the cattle industry, it was your business…otherwise, it wasn’t.

You went home and watched TV. Maybe you winced a little bit when you saw Mad Cow on your evening news, hesitated before tossing that London Broil in your grocery cart.

But you went on with your life, and figured those who worked in the field were doing their jobs right. (By the way, the Government Accounting Office busted the Food and Drug Administration in 2001, finding the proper oversight wasn’t being done; the problem was rectified.) Science figured out how the disease is caused, the authorities came up with the proper standards and guidelines, and the problem was solved.

I never once heard we “all need to come together to fight Mad Cow Disease.”

I never once heard of schoolchildren being sent home with coloring books, bumper stickers for Dad’s car, or other instructional materials relating to fighting Mad Cow Disease.

I have not, to this day, heard of a rock concert to raise public awareness of Mad Cow Disease.

I do not know of an Intergovernmental Panel of Mad Cow Disease (IPMCD).

Nobody was encouraged to change the way their households work to prevent the spread of Mad Cow Disease — other than vegetarians waggling their jaundiced, bony fingers at us to stop eating meat, which is something they’ve always done and always will do.

I’ve yet to hear of an international Mad Cow Disease tax.

Now, don’t ask me why Mad Cow Disease is different from global warming. You people who react differently, are the ones who need to come up with an answer for that one. I think, deep down, people understand that “climate change” or whatever you want to call it has very, very little to do with approaching doom, or climate science, or any reasoned analysis of the facts and what they might mean…and a whole lot more to do with social customs. It’s like a school dance, in which everybody’s supposed to move the same way at the same time.

But through Mad Cow Disease, we can already analyze our own behavior with regard to real threats to ourselves and to our families. When we understand the danger is real, we leave it to the people whose job it is to understand what’s going on and what to do about it. We do not grab each other by the lapels and shake each other and make nonsensical noises about “everybody coming together.” That is not how we address real dangers, even when those dangers are faced by “all of us.” When we address real dangers, we put the emphasis on FIXING THE FREAKIN’ PROBLEM and the man-across-the-street can behave in whatever manner he chooses to…we don’t care what he does. We don’t even give a rat’s ass whether he believes in it or not.

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