Polls and Jedis.

According to a very recent BBC poll (which should instantly put doubt into your mind. Who knows how much we should trust it now?) most people are quite happy to accept massive changes in their lives to combat that most ominous of threats: "CLIMATE CHANGE." When I say most, I am of course referring to the majority of people the poll actually asked, which was only around twenty-two thousand (22,000). As much as I hate to sound cynical and a bit like Jeremy Clarkson, many resources tell me that the estimated world population as it stands at the moment is 6,687,639,322. And counting. That's a number so big that typing it fully would consume a whole sentence, therefore I decided to just use numbers.

You'll notice I was quite happy to type twenty-two thousand out fully, and behold! I did it again, which just goes to emphasize how insignificantly small this so called 'majority' of the world is. I've never been a massive fan of these 'polls'. When you consider that one of the most important polls, the Census, had three hundred and ninety thousand (yet another tiny statistic that I'll write in words) people classify their religion as 'Jedi', you've got to appreciate it when I admit to getting a little voice in my head that suggests that quite a few people don't take these 'polls' seriously and that, essentially, the 'findings' are just sheer bullshit.

The Jedi: Religion or, no wait - LIES!

Maybe I'm just speaking for myself (that would make sense, after all this is my blog and therefore it should be what I think) but I genuinely do not believe all these people really took the whole thing seriously. I'm not saying that 'GLOBAL WARMING isn't a problem, or that we're just avoiding the metaphorical elephant curling one out in the middle of the room. What I am saying is that these kind of polls have a tendency of giving us, the people reading the results, and the people 'finding' the results, a rather...unbalanced view on how we as a global community can react to events and problems which will affect us all.

I'm sure there are some people who will be willing to make dramatic changes to their lifestyles in the face of 'GLOBAL WARMING', but I certainly do not believe that the majority of the world, hell even the Western world, could even begin to consider just how much would be asked of them to change. And that's just the people, nevermind the good old faceless and greedy mega corporations, squeezing the world and the man of every last penny.

On the subject of 'GLOBAL WARMING', I'd invite you to watch this video on a possible solution. Even if you don't care for the subject, it's still vaguely entertaining as the bloke has a very bizarre looking face.