I know how hard it is to admit you’re wrong, especially when you’ve staunchly defended a position for a long time. But sometimes you have to just bite the bullet and do it.
It is long past time for deniers of man-made climate change to muster the courage to make that admission. The scientific evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible. The extreme weather events that have been predicted for decades—heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods, hurricanes—are now upon us now and will only get worse the longer we wait to act.
The cost in human suffering and infrastructure destruction is mounting by the day. Those who continue to stymy efforts to reduce carbon emissions to avert catastrophic global warming can no longer profess doubt or ignorance. Such a stance is fundamentally immoral, as it condemns thousands of people to perish in future disasters along with countless numbers of other species that share this planet with us.
The only thing worse than being wrong is not correcting your mistake.
Holly Sletteland
Templeton
This article appears in Student Guide 2017.
Here’s an article that’s sure to capture Trump’s attention…or maybe not. In less than 30 years, scientist’s project that Donald’s Mar-a-Lago will be several feet underwater over 200 days each year. Get those hip boots out Barron.
By the way, the same scientists who projected the recent total eclipse within seconds of it happening…across the globe.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/j…