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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 @ 6:02 PM

In geology, which of course, I hate, we were being lectured to about climate changes, and Vanderhoven did that typical sci. prof. thing where he tried to make the topic seem relevant, and told us how climate affects the economy, and the ecosystem, and said, "What would happen, if the climate in the Midwest became inhospitable to crops? And Canada grew warmer, and suddenly they were the breadbasket of the world instead of us?" And I said, "If there's a Republican in the White House, America declares that there are weapons of mass destruction in Canada, and we invade, slaughter, and colonize them." I kept sitting in geology, thinking, "Well, if the world gets hotter, we'll adapt, or we'll die." Why doesn't it bother me to think about people dying from a natural, cataclysmic disaster, but it bothers me to think about people killing each other in a war? Maybe it's not the death that bothers me. Maybe it's the nationalism, the bloodlust, the greed, the cruelty. People are bending over backwards to raise money for the tsunami victims. Why doesn't Redbirds for Relief raise money for the dying people of Iraq? Or the homeless people in Chicago?

Here's a better question: Why haven't I?


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