Earth Day’s 45th came and
went. A flickeringly brief news
item. But still the shills for the fossil
fuels industry and their financial allies dominate the (mostly non)
conversation.
And the assertive deniers—the invincibly
ignorant—all too readily accept the shills’ utterly unscientific drivel.
In fact, in this and many other things, they wear their
certainty like armor to shield them from the real truth of the world that tries
to touch them.