I was flipping through channels on the television last week and came across one of those specials on the end of the earth. I didn't watch long but I am pretty sure they were debating how global warming would cause some natural disaster to eliminate mankind. I don't know why but these clowns always remind me of history class when we learned about ancient Greek Mythology.
Today we look at the ancient Greeks and think their many gods of thunder, lighting, water, etc. were just ways of coping with the unknown mysteries of their day. It gave them someone or something to blame for what were really just natural disasters. However, I do not discredit how much the Greeks truly believed in their gods just as some today truly believe in global warming.
In many cases, Greek and other mythology called for sacrifice to their gods in the hopes of preventing their gods from destroying the earth. Do the believers of global warming not call for sacrifice today? They ask me to drive hybrid cars and eat certain foods to reduce my "carbon footprint". That is a sacrifice, and one I am just not willing to take. Hundreds of years from now people will looks back on our society in much the same way we look back on past mythology. They will know that our generation needed a reason to explain natural disasters in much the same way the Greeks did.
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