Via the biased BBC this utterly fucking insane idea:
Can a simple idea help make the world a better place? Each week we ask a guest to outline an idea to improve all our lives. Here, Bangladeshi writer Tahmima Anam suggests randomly piping saltwater into homes.
Scientists now predict that the next 100 years will most surely see at least 10% of the world’s population displaced due to the effects of climate change – that is, 600 million people.
But despite so much evidence that proves that climate change is a direct consequence of human action, there are still many climate change sceptics out there.
In order to address the scepticism, which I believe is a result of a failure of the imagination, I propose that all citizens of countries that have high per capita carbon emissions have saltwater randomly piped into their homes.
The saltwater will arrive without warning, with complete disregard for whether or not the people in those homes are themselves high carbon emitters.
Is there no end to the insanity of these fucking people? So obsessed are they with their new religion? I don’t lack imagination, I am not taken in by the lies, obfuscation and quack “science” that is nothing more than a perversion of science. And this fucking lunatic thinks that piping seawater randomly into our homes will convince us that this religion is the “truth”. Yeah, right, I’m convinced alright.
Sam Pepper comments and sums it up perfectly:
Randomly piping salt water into peoples’ homes does not prove anything. All it would do is harden peoples’ opinions. In other words, those who are climate change sceptics would take this idea as yet another crackpot notion from the pro-climate change people.
Precisely. Fucking moron.
H/T The Englishman.
So obsessed are they with their new religion?
New Age, Longrider, New Age.