Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
Before I begin, this book was “interesting”, that is the highlight of the positives… This book was written more for those that fear what they cannot control (recycling will barely put a damper on anything, even though I do it myself and insist all friends and family do for good reasons). There is a trend of liberals that have, for lack of better terms, graduated from the beatnik role of evening coffee house goers. The same “graduates” like to latch onto doom and fear, a more ‘adult’ parallel of ‘emo’ music, and silently scream to each other “we’re all leaving to die, we’re evil and deserve it.” I’m not sure what wave of what generation this originally started in, but with technology it has advanced and become more widespread. I only wish people could gather to think for themselves. The concept is simple, and similar to cult behavior. Latch onto something (supposedly) horrific, instill that fear in others, gain their immediately following (and bottomless wallet for your products and donations), get rich, and leave your sheep behind. Anyone worth their weight in salt gets the BS side of something, and the realistic side of something, and is willing to share that with others. When something is completely one-sided, it creates to bring in the simpletons than need something to worry about, and scares off free-minded individuals. How does this relate to the book? It is long winded, but I seek to bring up a point: the author criticizes case after statistic after theoretical horror of what our “future” holds, but never steps back to say “take the flip-side into consideration and greatly exaggerated measures commonly used to draw attention and come to your own conclusion.” WAIT…wasn’t this book printed on paper and not only given as a card with a coupon to download the PDF? Oh the hypocrisy!