In the Jan 4, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, there's an article about John Mackey, douche executive officer of Whole Foods. The article says that Mackey "agrees with the book's assertion that, as he put it, "no scientific consensus exists" regarding the causes of climate change; he added, with a candor you could call bold or reckless, that it would be a pity to allow "hysteria about global warming" to cause us "to raise taxes and increase regulation, and in turn lower our standard of living and lead to an increase in poverty."This hardly needs to be said, yet I feel compelled to say it anyway, in the manner of an Allahu Akbar....
Mackey, you fucking moron. Even if you (erroneously) believe that "no scientific consensus exists" on global warming, shouldn't you still err on the side of caution? If there was a gun on the table before you, and no one could agree on whether or not a round was chambered, would you put it to your head and pull the trigger just so you could save a few bucks on your taxes? Obviously you wouldn't, but you would put the gun to the heads of everyone else, and that's why you're an asshole.
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