Bill Maher: Scared of the Wrong Things

Bill Maher is a cretin. He's an uneducated bonehead with a television show. Big deal.

This was a good show. (Saw the whole thing Friday) But I'm not really scared of global warming either. It's just not scary. There should be concern, sure, but no reason to get hot and bothered over it. Unfortunately it happens too slow (years? decades?), and the solutions to it would be real slow too. People aren't good at reacting to slow threats. If we could bomb someone and make global warming go away, it would be easier to deal with. But the only solution at the moment is to sacrifice something (Car, Plastics, etc.) with no noticible immediate gratification. And there is no sacrifice in the American value system/culture any more. Re-introducing sacrifice into American culture will take some other sort of tragety and then a generation or two before such a value could be transfered/applied to the real yet still abstract threat of global warming.

You'd have better luck invading the middle east and establishing a democracy there than getting the American public to give up their gas powered cars and myriad disposable conveniences.