The Borowitz report in the New Yorker magazine recently asked: What does it take to get Americans to think about Global Warming? The article cites a new survey that shows that while Americans are unconcerned by predictions of rising sea levels, the destruction of Arctic sea ice and polar bear habitats, and the appearance of larger and larger cyclones and hurricanes, people in California are freaking out because the drought is turning their lawns brown.
“We are being forced to create a front lawn out of stones and, yes, cacti. I’m not sure that this is a world I would want to leave to my children.”--Harland Dorrinson (Sacramento).
“Right now we’re looking at a situation where we have to choose between saving our climbing hydrangeas or our roses, We are no longer living like humans.”--Tracy Klugian (San Diego).
And a nice lady named Carol Foyler, after watching the lawn in front of her ranch house in San Mateo turn from a gorgeous green to a hideous brown during California’s drought, said she blamed scientists “for failing to warn us of the true cost of climate change.”
“They always said that polar bears would starve to death. OK, I can accept that. But they never told us our lawns would look like crap.”
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