Indignant.
This pretty much had me irate last night. I've recovered some but I am probably still only remembering a select portion of the conversation with my own spin on it. Sorry if the reader's opinions is different than mine.
My major is Atmospheric Chemistry. (Okay, I exaggerate, I am officially undeclared but I'm about 98% certain of it.) Even if I change my mind, I'm staying with something in physical sciences. My mother's friend calls me, a Tree Hugger. I'm not some gross hippy though. I set out my plastic, metal, and glass recycling, I turn off lights and power strips when they are not in use, I carpool and buy ethanol (which, I know, has mixed reviews but whatever) and I am anxious to develop better techniques and habits in a hope that maybe, just maybe we can save this poor innocent bystander we call Earth.
I may also be the largest hypocrite ever.
Or it may be this woman I've known for years. She's super into healthy living and stuff, talking about how she and her husband don't eat processed foods, get a ton of exercise, and at their advanced age of early seventies late sixties, I'd say they are doing pretty well. I was with her last night in a meeting capacity about something totally unrelated, and I opened my stupid mouth. We were talking about (what else does this woman talk about?) health, and it just happens that yesterday in Env. Science we discussed the Ozone layer and CFC's. Of course with ozone discussions about UV-A and UV-B radiation came up, along with, I might add, some graphic pictures of skin cancers. I mentioned it partly in jest partly because I must have been recovering from the horror of a picture that if I had not known better looked like lasagna.
UV-A is some scary stuff, man.
The woman said, as I remember word-for-word (However, Sheldon Cooper I am not) that she wasn't even sure that the hole in the Ozone layer wasn't a hoax. I looked at her, eyes wide and round. I tried not to be obviously shocked since I have tremendous respect for the woman (or at least, I did..) but I think she saw my reaction and then continued to reinforce her point by going on about 'polar bears floating on ice and how they are calling it something different like Global change or something." Then I apologised for interrupting the conversation, tuned out and started texting people.
Wasted two hours of my life.
But it was particularly ironic because the woman was railing against pharmaceuticals and how people shouldn't allow themselve to be bought by the industries anymore.
Erm, hello, Kettle? This is Pot. How ya doing?
It's almost as frustrating as the aforementioned friend of my mother's who doesn't think we need to take care of the planet because Jesus is going to come and rapture his people soon anyway. Great! I'll remember that when your children ask me why you didn't do anything when you had the chance and they now have to breath through gas masks.
Like I said, I could be incredibly mistaken, a loose cannon and opinionated. If that is the case, damn, give me my radio show already!!
My major is Atmospheric Chemistry. (Okay, I exaggerate, I am officially undeclared but I'm about 98% certain of it.) Even if I change my mind, I'm staying with something in physical sciences. My mother's friend calls me, a Tree Hugger. I'm not some gross hippy though. I set out my plastic, metal, and glass recycling, I turn off lights and power strips when they are not in use, I carpool and buy ethanol (which, I know, has mixed reviews but whatever) and I am anxious to develop better techniques and habits in a hope that maybe, just maybe we can save this poor innocent bystander we call Earth.
I may also be the largest hypocrite ever.
Or it may be this woman I've known for years. She's super into healthy living and stuff, talking about how she and her husband don't eat processed foods, get a ton of exercise, and at their advanced age of early seventies late sixties, I'd say they are doing pretty well. I was with her last night in a meeting capacity about something totally unrelated, and I opened my stupid mouth. We were talking about (what else does this woman talk about?) health, and it just happens that yesterday in Env. Science we discussed the Ozone layer and CFC's. Of course with ozone discussions about UV-A and UV-B radiation came up, along with, I might add, some graphic pictures of skin cancers. I mentioned it partly in jest partly because I must have been recovering from the horror of a picture that if I had not known better looked like lasagna.
UV-A is some scary stuff, man.
The woman said, as I remember word-for-word (However, Sheldon Cooper I am not) that she wasn't even sure that the hole in the Ozone layer wasn't a hoax. I looked at her, eyes wide and round. I tried not to be obviously shocked since I have tremendous respect for the woman (or at least, I did..) but I think she saw my reaction and then continued to reinforce her point by going on about 'polar bears floating on ice and how they are calling it something different like Global change or something." Then I apologised for interrupting the conversation, tuned out and started texting people.
Wasted two hours of my life.
But it was particularly ironic because the woman was railing against pharmaceuticals and how people shouldn't allow themselve to be bought by the industries anymore.
Erm, hello, Kettle? This is Pot. How ya doing?
It's almost as frustrating as the aforementioned friend of my mother's who doesn't think we need to take care of the planet because Jesus is going to come and rapture his people soon anyway. Great! I'll remember that when your children ask me why you didn't do anything when you had the chance and they now have to breath through gas masks.
Like I said, I could be incredibly mistaken, a loose cannon and opinionated. If that is the case, damn, give me my radio show already!!