Epic SF Fail

[mirrorshard]

Via Tor.com: Global Warming is good for us.

I may have lost my temper slightly in the comments and posted one longer than the original article.

Comments

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the original article supposed to be ironic? Humour along the lines of: "it's great now my house has burnt down - no need to hoover the front room any more!" That's definitely how it reads to me.

The internet seems to suggest that the author is an environmental activist.

[blue-mai.livejournal.com]

I don't know the author, but the way it was written, i just assumed it was meant to reveal the opposite of the title. ie. Taking what too may people really believe to its logical extension (everything will be ok! we'll live on Venus!) but not so far that it is easily dismissed as ridiculous by those same people. Probably the wrong forum though.
That was a really interesting bee article you linked to, thanks...

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

I certainly *hope* that your commenters here are right and the article is tongue-in-cheek. Reading and re-reading it I'm still not sure, which (if I may be immodest about my degree and abilities) is possibly a useful data point! And, you know, there are environmental activists and environmental activists. We know nothing about what she *does* to call herself that.

Still, regardless of the spirit in which the article was meant, your response was fantastic: detailed, remarkably calm, informed and lucid. Everything you said was worth saying, especially if you're right (and I'm sure you are) that Tor.com has some idiots on it that would agree with the sentiments expressed in Buckner's article. That's the case regardless of whether she herself does!

I rather like pfy's suggestion that Buckner might have been trying to get lovely responses like yours, as a way of making people think more than would have been the case if she'd said such things in her original post. That sounds quite plausible. :-)

Or possibly she's gone weird since 2002 and really does believe what she's written. A horrible thought, but sadly not implausible.