LH,
You are willing to accept your inconsequence and lack of power.
I am not.
That means two things. I do not accept your inconsequence, nor do I accept mine.
You and your actions do matter. As do mine.
Stay above it all if you wish. But I will still see that as an abdication of power that I think you have - whether you believe it or not.
I know enough about this issue to know that whether we are simply yacking about it on a folkie forum or wielding giant flaming swords in the halls of power, this shit matters. By saying "nobody really knows, and it doesn't matter anyhow" (which is pretty much what you are saying), you are abdicating a societal, and human, and global responsibility. Sorry to get so deep on a simple folkie forum, but there it is.
I have kids. I will be dead. They will deal with the consequences of what we do today.
We had a gig last night, and another on Saturday, and the daughter that I taught to play the bass clearly now kicks my ass at it. She deserves the best planet that we can leave her. And if Exxon execs and stockholders lose some money to give it to her, I am not too broken up about that.
Why the hell did TIA bring Exxon into it?
Damn good question.
Go ahead and read and be bemused and semi-interested in all the climate theories you want. But please take a few moments to see where the money behind the various theories comes from.
Be careful.
I see you dangerously close to joining the E$$on big money team. And your posting history over the last umpteen years suggests to me that you are not happy on that team.
Be informed.
In your desire to be an iconoclastic freethinker (which I fancy myself as well) there lies a cleverly laid trap - made just for folks like you.