11:52 am
In Case You Didn’t Know Already, Climate Change is A Bad Thing
So today is “Blog Action Day,” where thousands of bloggers all post passionately about an important issue. This year’s topic is climate change.
Okay. Here it goes.
Climate change is bad.
Really bad.
And scary.
Really scary.
We should stop it from happening or something.
Maybe by regulating carbon emissions.
Hey — I know! The world’s governments should all get together and talk about it!
And do something!
There ya go.
I don’t mean to mock a very serious issue — climate change is bad. And the world does need to do something about it.
But convening an online blogging Woodstock isn’t really going to do a damn thing.
Come on, sing it with me!
We are the blogs
We are Al Gore’s children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start blogging
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re we’re wasting all your time
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me and seven thousand other bloggers
Regular readers of this site know that I’m a huge fan of social media (if I wasn’t, why would I be blogging?). But I find things like this project — what I would call premeditated spontaneity — pretty silly. How does getting 7,000 blogs (by the site’s latest count) to write about climate change on a single day somehow make a difference?
Blogging isn’t action. It’s a bunch of people writing about stuff. I mean, they’re not even suggesting you link to an online petition, for crying out loud.
That’s not “action.” It’s cyber-narcissism.
Even if I were to believe that Blog Action Day is a good idea, I’d still have serious doubts about the event’s understanding of strategy.
Just for a moment, let’s assume that world leaders will wake the hell up after they read that Perez HIlton and Wonkette are unhappy about global warming. Don’t you think it would have made more sense to schedule the event a little closer to the UN Climate Change Conference, which doesn’t start until December 7?
I guess Hu Jintao will have to bookmark us so he can remember all this, um, passion when he shows up in Copenhagen six freaking weeks from now.
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