global warming and CONFUSION

how many of my friends are terrified of global warming? lots.
how many of my friends are like 'meh...' lots.
how many of my friends believe it's a conspiracy? lots.

i recently watched Al Gore's wee doco An Inconvenient Truth. Hmmm.. inconvenient indeed! It was a well stated opinion and after watching it, that's all I felt - it was one man's opinion. Because even though he had the 'facts' there from 'scientists' - how do I know that it's accurate information? I'm no scientist! I can't argue or agree on any basis whatsoever! It's super frustrating and so I set about to say nothing to anyone but to read everything I could in my spare time (which is not much... but some)

I found this article today called 'Don't Fight, Adapt.' It says very clearly what has been mulling around in my mind over the past few weeks:

Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems.

Yeah. And so apparently this is actually in a letter written from 100 scientists to the UN. Or something.

A friend who recently returned from the UK told me that he felt NZers didn't care enough about Climate Change. Interesting - when you consider that NZ has the fourth highest rate of suicide
in the world - WHY would someone who hated their own life, give a toss about saving human existence?

I'm not gonna be close-minded to anything, but I'm starting to think that maybe we shouldn't be putting all our eggs in one basket so-to-speak. Yeah we care about our world, but seriously, our world isn't going anywhere - it's our existence that is at risk... lets think about the people.