Funny part is, I never read a book solely about climatic change. It's just that I'm an avid reader, a fast one too, and read a lot of books, some science, some popular science, some magazines, too, newspapers, and, back then, a lot of science fiction, which, if well done (only not much around of this anymore), always touches on things like this, on new ideas, new technology and coming problems. And I always was interested very much in history.
Climatic change is one thing, but that the environment suffers from our ways of life, should be clear to anyone since the 80s, climatic change since the nineties, and that all this things are happening very soon since the 2000s.
that's how they're controlled
I try not to believe in a single one conspiracy theory (but I like them, to be honest, and I read as a youngster and young man a lot about it for fun (and met to my astonishment in unexpected places quiet a few people who believe into illuminati and things like that) and not to get paranoid. So I don't think the masses get controlled in a big way.
Of course governments do a few things for crowd control, have lists of suspect citizens (in my country there was a big scandal about this in the 80s. Even some writers were watched), they analyze our activities on the net, create backdoors and stuff. The governments seem to want more control, more information and so on. There is corruption, a lot of stuff to hide, and the enterprises and lobbies try and do their best to get their interests (money) become reality (very successful at that sometimes).
There is a lot going on, that shouldn't, stuff we have to look out for, and if possible to stop, but I really don't believe that there is a big conspiracy (a lot of (very) small ones, though, like price fixing, a little illegal help for the right politician and, and, and).
So I don't think they (the ominous 'they') really did a lot to create hate groups or parties like Germany's AfD or Frances Rassemblement National (the former Front National). Nor did they create the entertainment industry to lull the masses (but some governments of course try to use it). All that stuff happened the natural way, because people seem to like to be lulled, for example. They loved stupid tv shows how they seem to love todays stupid you tube movies.
The ignorance of people is astounding. If only they could figure out how to think for themselves.
That the ignorance is astounding in a way is true, especially when we think of todays possibilities we have, the schools, the sheer amount of people going to university and so on.
In my opinion and experience the problem starts when they try to think for themselves, because every one of us is a bit lazy and so we prefer easy answers, we get our prejudices with mother's milk, and we try to avoid thinking about the coming bad news because it's depressing, and thinking properly about the things is quiet a bit of work because first you need hard facts. And somehow most of us tend to believe what's written without asking further questions. And 'thinking' is something most of us never really learned.
And, to be honest, part of the problem is simple that a lot of all this stuff is plain out of league of some people. They don't have the intelligence. There could be a little hope in some theories like the 'hive mind'.
Well, I could go on, but all in all, I feel I have written more then enough, especially as this forum is about 3d (even if the climatic change is influencing our possibilities to do that. At least mine. I feel plain horror about the simple fact that summers like this will be normal in the foreseeable future. At the moment I don't even render at night because of the heat.
But at least here, on friday all this has an end. Some 25 degrees (Celsius) at the most. So, all in all, this summer, well, was probably rather mild (as much as i hate the heat, the drought is the problem)).
Oh, by the way, to Americans who read the New York Times: No, in Switzerland didn't die one cow of thirst (in some part of the alps they got water by helicopter but that's another story). And the picture with the crowded lake is from Red Bull Cliff Diving World. Those are spectators, and other pictures about that show very clearly how few they are in reality :smile:
The New York Times isn't what it was, it seems ...
P.S.: They corrected their newsletter (and I hope the article in the print edition is ok, too).