Explosive Interests in Yellowstone
Posted on 31. Dec, 2008 by Brad in Places | Twitter: @bradhart |
Grand Prismatic Hot Springs, Yellowstone N.P.
We are all of a sudden shifting our interests to Yellowstone and its massive caldera. For those of you who don’t know Yellowstone National park is one giant volcano ready to blow. Of course even with recent earthquakes the likelihood of this happening is next to nothing. in fact the most legitimate scientists and vulcanologists list this super-volcano as only the 19th most dangerous volcano in America. Sure if it goes we are screwed royally, but they don’t give it much of a chance of going.
If there is so little chance of it blowing why are we talking about it? The answer is rather simple, sensationalism at its finest. It is also safe to assume if we talk about The Yellowstone Volcano possibly devastating the earth, we don’t have to talk about unpopular things like overpopulation caused by lack of preventive birth control. Nor do we have to talk about the starvation and spread of disease associated with over population. If we don’t have to talk overpopulation, then we certainly don’t need to talk about how poorly we use our water resources either.
In the end we talk about the Yellowstone Volcano because we can’t do anything about it, saving us from actually dealing with real environmental problems we can do something about. I call out to my fellow bloggers to make a post about the big bad Yellowstone Volcano to draw in curious readers but stick a few real issues with real solutions into the post that aren’t getting any attention.
Saving the world requires more than saving the cheerleader…
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