Time again for my Wednesday Greenoptions article, as always you can check out the newest one here.
The Arctic ice caps are melting at a rapid pace, massive hurricanes are regularly destroying large swaths of this country, rivers are drying out, species are being wiped out by pollution, oceans are becoming more acidic, wars are raging, crime is rampant, pit bulls are eating children…*click*
This is what we are faced with every time we turn on the television, listen to the radio, or pick up a newspaper. It would seem that sometime in the last couple of years, the four horsemen of the apocalypse rode into town and started throwing a kegger. Is it all true? How can we possibly deal with such an overwhelming avalanche of bad news? Should I start working on my bunker?
First take a deep breath. Ok good. Now, just so you don’t think I am trying to pull the wool over your eyes, most of it IS true. The ice caps are melting, global warming is real and we caused it, and every once in a while, a pit bull will attack a child. The problem is not the news, but how it is presented to us, and how we filter it.
With the 24-hour news cycle, the internet, a bevy of papers, and news radio, information in our day and age is like a fire hose. Trying to drink from that hose is only going to leave you wet with a very sore tongue. Besides being overwhelming this torrent of information also serves to dishearten us, and make us afraid to act. We have become so informed that we don’t know anything.