As you read through the news, you see two kinds of articles: those which are about real problems, and those which are not. People seem to get equally excited about both of them.
This is Serious
Washington State, where marijuana is now legal, has a marijuana surplus. As soon as it was legal, a whole bunch of people decided to grow ahead and grow it, figuring it would be more profitable than apples or potatoes, and the market got saturated. This is not a problem.
A sportscaster (I didn’t actually read the article, so I can’t give details) has been suspended because he was caught with a prostitute. Personally, I have no problem at all with prostitution. Back in my single days, I was an occasional customer myself. But even if you consider it immoral, the guy is a sportscaster. He’s not running for President, he’s not a kindergarten teacher. This is not a problem.
A guy on some stupid shopping program displayed his ignorance of astronomy when he said that something looked like the Earth as seen from “the planet moon.” Not a problem. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist, or even have a basic knowledge of the solar system, to hawk shit on TV.
A young, Christian boy who, if the pictures are an accurate guide, is seriously ill, wrote a book in which he said he’d been to heaven and back. It was a big seller in Christian bookstores, I guess. He confessed that he’d made it all up and his publisher recalled the book. Not a problem. Anybody who actually bought the book because they took him literally is not the most discerning reader in the world. It’s not as if they would have spent their money on “Finnegan’s Wake” if they hadn’t been deceived. So, no big deal.
On the other hand, the recent report that we may have passed the point of no return as far as polluting the world’s oceans and life on Earth as we know it is now doomed to extinction is seriously important.
I don’t want to believe it. It seems a bit defeatist, I’m sure there are still things we can do. The oceans are vast and it’s not a closed system. If we stop polluting the air and the ground, the rivers will start to run clean and the oceans, after a time, will recover. But, despite these warnings, we aren’t taking many steps to clean up the air and the land, either.
It’s definitely serious. Far, far more serious than a surplus of recreational herb, a sportscaster’s sex life, a TV character’s ignorance of science, or a little white lie by an overly Christian Christian.
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