Cognitive Dissonance

[c9]

If you could imagine a single picture that represented the unwillingness of Canadians and Americans to, for the most part, grasp global warming and the changes required, could you imagine something better than this?

Comments

[thespos]

I saw this when you posted it but didn't feel my thoughts were organized enough to respond until now.

Not that they're overly organized now, either.

But I keep looking at things like this and two thoughts occur to me:

• The cold zone on this map is the US and Canada, and explains why many in our region can be so easily convinced that it is not real, since the relationship between "cold" and "global warming" is not understood.
  
• I wonder if it is fair to bring another child into the world when it won't be the world I knew.