Imaginos1892 wrote:I mean that pronouncements about climate from the traffic department are as idiotic as law enforcement policy statements from the CDC.
When people call crime a ‘disease’ or an ‘epidemic’ IT’S A METAPHOR! They do not mean that crime is literally an infectious pathogen that you can be immunized against.
You say that buuuuut....
There's a fairly convincing body of work that links the use of leaded gasoline and leaded pipes to low-key brain damage and, incidentally, crime rates.
That's some pretty fundamental epidemiological work here, very similar to the foundational inquiries of that particular science, and it absolutely falls within the remit of institutions like the CDC.
And, just to be clear here: My initial comment was about the tone of the statement, the utter fatalism of it. No matter where you stand on the whole climate change thing (even if you're on the wrong side), for someone to say "eh, we're all going to die anyway so who cares" strikes me as a bit odd.
I’m tired of all those ‘progressives’ that believe knowing something about one of their pet causes means they know everything about everything. Like Jane Fonda pretending to know more about conditions in North Vietnamese prison camps than the POWs incarcerated there.
This is a strawman argument.