The Truth Isn’t 50/50
Enough with this fair and balanced crap
I write opinions. Sometimes they are observations. I’m not a journalist and I have taken no oath to be 100% fair and balanced, nor am I sticking to a single point of view. I skew liberal, sometimes progressive, but I draw a line at the idea that we need to give equal time to both sides of every story.
Life and the truth are not fair, especially when it comes to my favorite topics, politics and climate change. For example, I’m not being fair to oil and gas companies who bought congress to accomplish two things: to create denial and doubt about the biggest disaster in human history and to pretend that fossil fuels are not the cause.
Because those two things are true. Our consumption of oil, gas, and coal caused global warming and the fossil fuel companies have known this and covered it up for our entire lives. For profit, money, executive bonuses that go to people with grandchildren who sold their grandchildren’s future for cold hard cash.
Is there another side to that right now as we watch practically every nice place on the planet becoming uninhabitable? Why would we pretend there is, in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus and evidence?
And why does an obviously mentally ill person have the support of an entire political party…
