You know, crazy like James Inhofe. Fucking crazy.
Some of them, including Frosty E. Hardison (believe it or not), have complained to the local school board about Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Frosty, it seems, didn't want one of his daughters, a seventh-grader, watching it in her science class:
"No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation -- the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet -- for global warming," Hardison wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board. The 43-year-old computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming planet is "one of the signs" of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day.
His angry e-mail (along with complaints from a few other parents) stopped the film from being shown to Hardison's daughter.
Yes, fucking crazy in that specially Christian way. Sure our planet's fucked. Sure we're all fucked. But it's all part of God's plan -- so why worry? Well, not to be too blunt about this, but he and those who think like him can go fuck themselves silly as they await the rapture. The rest of us -- those of us who haven't succumbed to fantasy -- would rather get on with doing something about the climate crisis. For those who think like Frosty are not just ignorant and delusional but grossly irresponsible. They are, to be blunt again, the willing enablers of genocide. For while their little fantasy keeps them ignorant and delusional, the costs, the human costs, of the climate crisis will prove to be enormous. Millions dead, whole cities eradicated, land masses submerged. A true apocalypse, not the imaginary one you can read about in their books.
Al Gore's great documentary is an important film about the most important issue of our time. We ought to watch it. Our children ought to watch it. The crazy parents of Federal Way, and its cowardly school board, be damned.
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