A good ol' fashioned environmental rant

I have been spending a little more time on "digg" lately, and I like to go to the science section. I get annoyed, however, that the most popular articles on "digg" are not useful or informative to me. This is my beef:

1. The most popular articles have no value to human life but prefer to highlight "news" about celebrities. Has it ever occurred to anyone that fueling these peoples' false sense of inflated self and their talent-less careers by talking only about their personal lives and not about anything else actually perpetuates bad acting? Help Hollywood actors and actresses gain balance and self esteem by judging them on their merits and not their personal life choices, OKAY???

2. People do not like intelligence on "digg" - any comments that is longer than 5 lines gets "un-dugg". (unless, of course, you say something clever and mean about a hollywood starlett)

3. Pseudo-scientists rule the science news section. I can't read another article that is a simplified regurgitation of all the other simple articles on "digg". All of these articles are basically summaries of research and facts that every scientist new decades ago. Technology could have moved along so much faster if schools taught Americans the metric system, FUCK! Yes, hybrid technology and alternative energy may be all the rage, but this should have happened thirty years ago - why did all of you psuedo-environmental-science digging-snobs wait until we could actually see the effects of climate change until you got interested? Why now? Now, when the penguins in Antartica and the polar bears in the Artic have lost most of their natural habitat? It is so great that everyone thinks this shit is peachy now.

But my comment for today is:

Psuedo-scientist, jargon-toting, band-wagon jumping, diggers beware!

If there is one thing I have learned from getting a "higher" education eleven wasteful years it is that whatever technologies we choose as the ones that will save us through our current crisis, we can't pick something out of haste even though we are in a climate upheaval.

We could have had decades to refine, test and decide upon the best alternatives that would not leave other damaging effects on the planet, but instead we have backed ourselves into a corner. We have to make choices fast - don't let corporations and pseudo-intellectualism trick you into making a decision that will impact the planet for eons. Do your research.

Thanks.

BD