Global Harming III

I believe that if the earth is hurtling toward disaster in the form of global warming then no amount of activism is going to stop it. Few people are going to change their habits or give up things like gas guzzling cars, air conditioning, and bottled water to achieve an intangible goal like preventing a two degree rise in average world temperature over the next twenty years. Still, despite the occasional excesses on the part of activists, activism is necessary, whether we're talking about rights for minorities, better treatment of animals, ending the war, or anything else. Activism keeps an issue alive, so that everyone doesn't become totally complacent and descend into a media-fueled sloth where Lindsay Lohan's drug problem and David Beckham's ankle become the only things that matter.